West Africa is becoming increasingly attractive to those who want to make and export illicit drugs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crystal methamphetamine is the most widely used synthetic drug in the world, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and ...

British music star DJ Fat Tony has revealed how his addiction to crystal meth left him so mentally and physically unwell that he pulled out his own teeth.The 60-year-old DJ, who has spoken openly ...

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through similar mechanisms. Meth is ...

It's made in laboratories, not grown on farmland or cultivated in a greenhouse. It's relatively cheap. It has medicinal powers. It was enshrined in popular culture by the critically acclaimed ...

Methamphetamine (meth) abuse is a major health concern. Understanding how meth interacts with its target proteins is crucial for the development of novel medications to address drug addiction.

Methamphetamine use has become epidemic in North Korea, according to the journal North Korea Review. The WSJ’s Alastair Gale tells Deborah Kan how one of the world’s most secretive nations became ...

Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) remains one of the most underserved disorders in addiction medicine, largely because there are no FDA-approved medications for its treatment—yet. The 2024 National ...