Deaths linked to drugs like meth have risen five-fold since 2012. But unlike with opioids, there are no approved treatment medications — and there's no antidote equivalent to naloxone. Public health leaders say there's an urgent need for that to change.
After a few months in an abstinence-based program, Eric would be back on the streets, looking for housing and a job. He’d sink into a depression and use meth to get himself out. After 10 or so rounds of detox, more rehab programs and months in sober homes, Eric is managing his addiction to heroin with counseling and buprenorphine.“I was able to stop everything,” Eric says, “literally, marijuana, alcohol — everything except for meth.
“We’re seeing people coming in, in desperation, asking to be essentially locked up,” Kehoe says, “to be locked away from the substance.”“We know that is not an effective strategy and is not a therapeutic intervention at all,” Kehoe says. Much of that catch up is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, where Dr. Nora Volkow is the director. She says finding ways to treat a meth or cocaine addiction must be a top priority as the death rate climbs.
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