Attorneys say one of the men who appeared at this week's inaugural session of a new court inside the Suffolk County jail is now being held at another jail where there is a coronavirus outbreak.
Health workers with legal prescribing privileges have gotten newly revised federal guidelines once again making it easier for them to help those addicted to powerful opioid.
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.