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...government survey, 2.1 million Americans had used cocaine in the month prior to the survey and 1 million had taken other stimulants for nonmedical purposes, including more than half a million users of methamphetamine. There are currently no overwhelmingly effective addiction treatments. Abstinence-based rehab therapy for meth and cocaine work about as well as rehab for other drugs - meaning that about one-third of users improve following treatment, but most relapse repeatedly. And despite decades of study of dozens of compounds, there are as yet no federally approved medications for cocaine or meth addiction...
None of the researchers believe that stimulant maintenance is a panacea or that it will work for every cocaine or meth addict. But there is no medical treatment that works 100% of the time. "I think we have found something of potential benefit, and it should be met with interest and further research, rather than disdain," Grabowski says...
Full House's JODIE SWEETIN splits from hubby. First the meth, then the heartache...
...Knife College perseveres, holding out hope for a new generation of Northern Cheyennes. More than half its graduates now go on to four-year schools. One of them is Jennifer Wooden Legs, 29, daughter of the college-board chairman, whose academic career was postponed by five horrific years of meth addiction. ("Very awful stuff, very hard to get over," she says.) Jennifer, a single mother, will graduate next June, and plans to study psychology at Montana State University in Billings and then "come back and help." Chief Dull Knife College, she says, "turned around my idea that I couldn...
Months after Tatum O'Neal drug bust, RYAN O'NEAL AND SON arrested for meth possession. Here comes the reality show...