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A selection of meth seized by the Pennington County Sheriff s Office s narcotics enforcement team in South Dakota.
Pennington County Sheriff s Office via AP
As rates of methamphetamine overdose soar in the United States, one of the biggest challenges for both people who use stimulants and clinicians is that there are no approved treatments for this type of addiction unlike the three medications authorized to treat opioid use disorders.
But in a new study, researchers found that a combination of two existing drugs one, a treatment for opioid addiction, and the other, an antidepressant can help some people who use methamphetamine regularly cut back. In a clinical trial, the researchers reported Wednesday, 13.6% of participants treated with the two drugs had repeated urine tests free of methamphetamine, compared to just 2.5% of those who were given placebos.
January 08, 2021
The Yale Global Mental Health Program (GMHP) begins 2021 with new teaching and trainee leadership.
Theddeus Iheanacho, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Sirikanya (Sanya) Sellers, MD, a first-year resident, are the new faculty and residency leaders, respectively. Both hope to continue to strengthen the program, which promotes awareness of issues of global mental health and social disparities, and helps trainees develop tools to address these issues both at home and abroad.
The program started about nine years ago as an elective for psychiatry residents and fellows but now is open to Yale School of Medicine students and others at Yale.