A year after Shawn Bridges succumbed to the ravages of methamphetamine, his father remains on a mission to save others. Shawn Bridges, 35, died in a Cape Girardeau hospital on March 26, 2007. Meth ...

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

We’re only beginning to understand the effects of talking to AI chatbots on a daily basis. As the technology progresses, many users are starting to become emotionally dependent on the tech, going as ...

The pressing issue of methamphetamine addiction — especially within Florida’s LGBTQ+ community — has largely been overlooked. Florida is among the five states with the most meth users according to ...

Nov. 2, 2005 — -- Hattie Tysver, now 18, took her first snort of meth when she was 15. Tysver -- who lives in the town of Fergus Falls, Minn., population 15,000 -- was a good student but admits ...

The highly addictive drug, manufactured almost exclusively by Mexican cartels, is more dangerous than ever. Its use has been surging across the country. Unlike fentanyl, there are no medicines that ...

The singer has now been clean for nearly two decades. "At my lowest point, I was [suffering from] chemically-induced psychosis and dementia," she recalled. "I was hallucinating on a daily basis. It ...

Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) was associated with significantly lower levels of serum melatonin and disrupted circadian patterns compared with not having MUD, a new study showed. Melatonin levels ...

A study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology on July 6 found that drugs such as methamphetamines that make their way into the world’s waterways through human waste can actually cause fish ...

The hormone oxytocin — known as the “love drug” or “cuddle chemical” — plays an important role in pair-bonding, child-rearing and social behavior. Now researchers are discovering that it could also ...