Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it ...

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It took leaving their home in Lodge Grass, a town of about 500 people on the Crow Indian Reservation, to recover. Here, methamphetamine use is widespread.

Sacred Journey Recovery has released a new online resource focused on “holistic treatment approaches for men struggling with methamphetamine addiction“. The article explores how evidence-based ...

Bernard Groves has spent five years trying to quit methamphetamine. He lost his job. He lost his car. He nearly lost his apartment. Worse than that, he says, his addiction has hurt his family. “I went ...

The pressing issue of methamphetamine addiction — especially within Florida’s LGBTQ+ community — has largely been overlooked. Florida is among the five states with the most meth users according to ...

A grandma who spent 15 years on meth now looks unrecognisable after finally getting clean. Shannon Hughes, 46, started using methamphetamine when her daughter, Mistena Renteria-Elliott, 26, was ...

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