Psychiatric News (1/21) reports, “There was a fivefold increase in methamphetamine overdose deaths from 2011 to 2018 among U.S. adults aged 25 to 54, with American Indians and Alaska Natives experiencing the highest death rates,” investigators concluded after gathering “deidentified public health surveillance data on methamphetamine-related deaths from 2011 to 2018 from the National Vital Statistics System,” then limiting “their analysis to individuals between 25 and 54 years old, as national data show that four-fifths of people who use methamphetamines are within this age group.” The findings were published online Jan. 20 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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— “Study Points to Methamphetamine Crisis Among American Indians, Alaska Natives, Psychiatric News, January 21, 2021