A state commission reviewing severe child abuse cases found children using meth and being sex trafficked while staying in Department of Children's Services offices and transition homes. NASHVILLE, ...

Methamphetamine, often simply called meth, is a stimulant that speeds up the central nervous system by boosting levels of dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in movement and motivation. Prolonged ...

To test the drug’s safety and effectiveness as a treatment to reduce methamphetamine use, they recruited 164 adults with meth dependence who’d reported at least 14 days of use out of the previous 28 ...

Associate professor of forensic toxicology Heather Barkholtz and associate professor of clinical health sciences David Leinweber are leading groundbreaking research at the University of Wisconsin ...

Methamphetamine use has tripled in Wisconsin since 2011, according to a new study. The La Crosse area is seeing similar numbers. The study, which comes from the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the ...

While opioids have been involved in most of Alaska’s drug overdose deaths, another drug is a frequent contributor to those outcomes: methamphetamine. A little over half of the fatal overdoses in ...

San Francisco is handing out antipsychotic drugs to homeless methamphetamine users who frequent psychiatric emergency services to help them cope with symptoms such as paranoia, delusions and ...