Publish date: June 29, 2018
This article from Clinical Psychiatry News brings up that the use of opioids and amphetamine together has increased. The article talks about the abuse of these drugs, but not the fact that stimulants potentiate opioids for pain patients.
As long as physicians continue to treat pain patients like addicts, they will act like addicts by turning to the street for pain relief from methamphetamine or whatever, because the alternative is to end the pain.
When will they learn everyone isn't abusing pain medications, some simply live in pain.
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Methamphetamine use climbing among opioid users
SAN DIEGO – As the deadly opioid epidemic continues, a new study suggests that a fast-rising number of users are turning to another drug of abuse – methamphetamine. In some cases, a researcher says, their co-use is reminiscent of the fad for “speedball” mixtures of cocaine and heroin.
During 2011-2017, the percentage of surveyed opioid users seeking treatment who reported also using methamphetamine over the past month skyrocketed from 19% to 34%, researchers reported at the 2018 annual meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence.
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