Study: Meth use climbs on East Coast
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Methamphetamine use is increasing along the East Coast after years of largely being confined to rural areas west of the Mississippi River, a government report shows.
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HOGBACK, New Mexico  - A brutal triple slaying in this remote corner of the vast Navajo reservation brought home what experts have seen coming for years: an explosion in crime on tribal lands linked to the cheap, potent and highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine.
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By GENARO C. ARMAS  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Picnickers in East Coast woods may get some hungry visitors this summer. But at least they won't ask for sandwiches.
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Research suggests a link  between a disease of the heart muscle called cardiomyopathy and  use of methamphetamine -- a powerfully addictive illegal  stimulant drug, also known as meth, crank, crystal, and speed.
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SABANA CRESPO, Colombia  - Coca leaves, the raw  material of cocaine, should speed you up and give you a buzz.  But you'd never know it to look at the Arhuaco Indians of  Colombia's Sierra Nevada, who must be strong contenders for the  title of World's Most Laid-Back People.
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Forget the coasts. A new study finds the highest rates of pitching in to help the community are in Middle America.
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Britain now tops European countries in rates of cocaine abuse, a new report has revealed. The study, released Thursday by the European Union&#39;s drug monitoring center, found five percent to seven percent of
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Coping with rising methamphetamine use by adults is one of the top challenges U.S. child welfare agencies say they will face in the next five years, the government said in a report released on Friday.
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A national study released Thursday showed that teenagers whose friends were sexually active were more likely to smoke, drink or use illegal drugs.
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NEW YORK  - When patients are treated for methamphetamine abuse and participate in a program that includes a "contingency management" strategy -- a system that rewards abstinence -- they are less likely to use illicit drugs compared with patients treated with usual care alone, investigators report.
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NEW YORK  - Research suggests a link between a disease of the heart muscle called cardiomyopathy and use of methamphetamine -- a powerfully addictive illegal stimulant drug, also known as meth, crank, crystal, and speed.
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A novel study may provide an  answer to a question that has puzzled drug abuse researchers  for years -- namely, why someone would try a drug like heroin  for the first time knowing that it is highly addictive.
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A new UCLA study released Nov. 26 reports higher arrest rates among drug offenders diverted to treatment during the first six months of California&#39;s Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA), commonly known as Proposition 36.
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About 1.2 million people age 12 and older used the brain-damaging drug methamphetamine or prescription stimulants for non-medical reasons in 2003, unchanged from the year before, the government's substance abuse prevention agency reported Friday.
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WICHITA, Kan. -- It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves redhanded, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.
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More than four million people younger under age 21 drove under the influence of drugs or alcohol last year, according to a government report released Wednesday. That's one in five of all Americans aged 16 to 20.
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The United States, Colombia and Mexico are slowing the flow of cocaine and methamphetamine into the U.S., according to new figures from the Drug Enforcement Administration.