However, from 2013 to 2023, there was a decrease in heroin concentration
Regardless of prognosis, panel deemed it appropriate to continue opioids, increase monitoring, and avoid opioid tapering
Increase seen in age-adjusted drug overdose death rates involving methamphetamine, cocaine; decrease reported in death rates involving oxycodone
Proportion of deaths co-involving methamphetamine and heroin or fentanyl peaked at 61.2 percent in 2021
MethHF linked to significant morbidity, including worse heart failure symptoms compared with non-methamphetamine-related heart failure
Rural U.S. residents who use both drugs more likely to have nonfatal overdose than those who use either drug alone
From 2007 to 2019, opioid-stimulant deaths among Black people increased at more than three times the rate of White people
This was the first public safety alert the DEA has issued in six years
Populations at higher risk for methamphetamine use disorder diversifying rapidly
Those with past-year methamphetamine use also more likely to have each combination of paired outcomes or all three outcomes