Methamphetamine use disorder is a neurological condition with well-documented effects on the brain. Meth floods dopamine pathways far beyond normal levels, damaging receptors tied to motivation, ...

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Meth is a problem most everywhere, but particularly in Indian Country. In one small town on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, new buildings... In Lodge Grass, Montana, a Crow community works to ...

Katheryn Houghton KFF Health News Jan 9, 2026 Jan 9, 2026 LODGE GRASS — Brothers Lonny and Teyon Fritzler walked amid the tall grass and cottonwood trees surrounding their boarded-up childhood home ...

International criminal syndicates have been using Fiji as a transshipment point for drugs originating in Southeast Asia and Latin America.

A police officer packs up bags of methamphetamine after a news conference in Atlanta to announce the seizure of an estimated $6 million worth of the drug in 2009. John Bazemore / Associated Press ...

The United States Sentencing Commission is seeking public comment on proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, which could for ...

Methamphetamine addiction has a way of looping back on itself. A rush of pleasure pulls you in, cravings follow, and the ...

This was originally published Feb. 8, 2019. She and her roommate had been awake for two days straight. They decided to spray-paint the bathroom hot pink. After that, they laid into building and ...

A New Enterprise mother is behind bars after allegedly making multiple purchases of methamphetamine for her two juvenile children and teaching one how to smoke it with a glass pipe. Susan Marie ...

Changes in how methamphetamine trafficking is punished under federal law are being proposed this year to bring sentences more in line with other hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. The impact of ...