Admissions to Twin Cities area treatment programs for addiction to methamphetamine (meth) continued to decline in 2008, according to a report on drug abuse trends released today by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. The report is produced twice annually to monitor emerging patterns and trends in drug abuse and treatment.
Meth-related treatment admissions accounted for [...]
Note: The following Graphs, Background, Area Description and Data Sources are an excerpt from the “Drug Abuse Trends Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN for January 2010, by Carol Falkowski, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, Minnesota Department of Human Services. To download the entire PDF, please go to: http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/disabilities/documents/pub/dhs16_147922.pdf
Source: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Normative Evaluation System (DAANES), Minnesota [...]
By ERIK ECKHOLM
In the first effort to calculate the national price of methamphetamine abuse, a new study said the addictive stimulant imposed costs of $23.4 billion in 2005. While the authors, from the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif., caution that many impacts were difficult to quantify, their study suggests that methamphetamine takes an economic [...]