Effective treatment for stimulant addiction can be hard to find There's an urgent need for treatment to help people addicted to cocaine and meth. Member station WBUR's Martha Bebinger went to a clinic that tackled stimulant addiction with a program called contingency management. BEBINGER: The doctor sent V to the Health Center's addiction treatment clinic, where he learned about contingency …
When Amanda goes without her medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, she struggles to function mentally and physically. In a statement, Marta Sokolowska, the deputy director of the substance use unit within the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research said: “Currently there is no FDA-approved medication for stimulant use disorder. In addition to a few other off-label drugs that show …
