ALLMedicine™ Methamphetamines Center

May 5th, 2022 - Purpose: Transgender and gender expansive (TGE) youth experience elevated risk for substance use and other health inequities compared to cisgender peers. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between protective environments-perceiv...

Apr 28th, 2022 - This review highlights the rising prevalence of methamphetamine use in pregnancy in North American and the difficulty of managing active human immunodeficiency virus infection in a pregnant woman while actively using methamphetamines. Multidiscipl...

Apr 25th, 2022 - Common drugs of misuse, including cannabis, opioids, stimulants, alcohol, and anabolic steroids, have strikingly disparate acute and chronic vascular effects, leading to a wide range of clinical cardiovascular presentations. Acute cannabis smoking...

Apr 21st, 2022 - Mood disorder, impulsivity and aggression are common in drug users compared to healthy controls. However, no study has focused on the difference in various types of drug users. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore the differences ...

Apr 15th, 2022 - Background: Traditional treatments for substance use disorders (SUDs) rely heavily on face-to-face interactions, which pose substantial limitations for patients. A clinical trial of a digital therapeutic (DT), delivering behavioral therapy demonst...

Feb 4th, 2012 - Mood disorders, especially bipolar disorder (BD), frequently are associated with substance use disorders (SUDs). There are well-designed trials for the treatment of SUDs in the absence of a comorbid condition. However, one cannot generalize these ...

Apr 8th, 2022 - Current HIV prevention strategies for PLWH emphasize engagement across the HIV Continuum of Care: linkage to and retention in care, adherence to antiretroviral therapy, and maintenance of suppressed viral load. The National HIV/AIDS Strategy goals...

Mar 4th, 2022 - Over the past decade, the annual number of drug-related deaths more than doubled in the United States (Swensen, 2015). In particular, over the 2001-2013 period, overdose deaths involving prescription pain relievers tripled while those involving he...

Aug 10th, 2021 - Methamphetamine is a potent central nervous system stimulant originally prescribed for individuals with neuropsychiatric diseases. Owing to its highly addictive nature, illicit use has emerged as a major public health problem worldwide. It causes ...

Aug 21st, 2019 - Linguistically Accurate Screening and Assessment is Critical for Quality Patient Care. Accurate screening, diagnosis and treatment are entirely dependent on a linguistically-accurate and culturally-relevant assessment, especially for sensitive top...

Jul 22nd, 2021 - Rates of heart failure (HF) caused by methamphetamine abuse are climbing quickly in the western United States, at great financial and societal cost, suggests an analysis that documents the trends in California over a recent decade. In the new stud...

Jan 8th, 2020 - (Reuters Health) - Teens who binge drink or abuse prescription opioids may be more likely to engage in other risky behaviors as well, two new studies suggest. Adolescents who binge drink are more likely to drive drunk or ride with drivers who are ...

Jan 8th, 2020 - MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs has only managed to curb the supply of methamphetamines by less than 1% of annual consumption, proof that it has been a bloody failure, his main political rival, the vice presi...

Nov 6th, 2019 - Was there foul play? Examining the body, Robinson found knife wounds. Detectives found a knife in the stove, wrapped in a towel, but she does not know what happened next. In another case of Robinson's, a man was found dead in his garage. Robinson'...

Oct 23rd, 2019 - Drug overdose remains a significant concern worldwide, with nearly half a million deaths annually. In the United States, drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for adults younger than 55 years. Drug-related deaths now outnumber those attrib...