Oregon’s huge investments in addiction treatment beds began to pay off in 2025, when hundreds of new beds came online. A ...

When it comes to meth addiction, Thomas Robey has long been at a loss. As an emergency room doctor, he treats a steady stream of patients who show up at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, ...

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 ...

Researchers think they may have found the first medication treatment for meth addiction, a significant step toward stemming the increase in overdose deaths seen in recent years. A study published ...

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Seattle and San Francisco scale back harm reduction policies distributing drug supplies, signaling a shift in how West Coast ...

An intriguing experiment in drug treatment is quietly unfolding in the Bay Area. The idea? Rewarding methamphetamine users who get clean with gift cards to Burger King, Walmart and other stores. Drug ...

When Billy Lemon was trying to kick his methamphetamine addiction, he went to a drug treatment program at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation three times a week and peed in a cup. If it tested negative ...

After a 30% increase in 2020, deaths from drug overdoses rose another 15% to a record-breaking nearly 108,000 in 2021, according to new data published in May 2022 by the Centers for Disease Control ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The former owner of an Olathe, Kansas, clinic that treated opioid addiction has been sentenced in federal court for possessing methamphetamine to distribute. Trevor J. Robinson, 46, ...