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Posted 1/11/2024 (updated 3/28/2024)
This webinar will briefly discussed the history of meth and amphetamines, some of the myths and reasons people use them.
Posted 3/21/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
Training materials A Stimulating Talk
Posted 12/8/2021 (updated 3/27/2024)
This webinar provided RCORP Psychostimulant Support program grantees with the tools to complete a behavioral health disparities impact statement, to support efforts to address populations in rural communities that have historically suffered from poorer health outcomes and health inequities as a part of the prevention, treatment and recovery of psychostimulants.
Posted 8/19/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
Have you ever felt too uncomfortable or weird (not in a nice way) after taking stims? You could have been “overamping.” Stimulants like crack/cocaine and meth can lead to side effects that are unwanted and uncomfortable or potentially dangerous. Knowing what it is and what to do can help you be prepared if it happens.
Overamping happens when the effects of a stimulant become overwhelming, distressing, and/or dangerous.Overamping is specific to “overdosing” on stims like crack, cocaine, or meth. Using the word “overamping” helps to differentiate from an opioid overdose since they are different in how it happens, how it appears, and how to respond.
Posted 3/2/2021 (updated 4/4/2024)
All materials and resources have been translated to Spanish.
Posted 2/24/2021 (updated 4/4/2024)
This webinar provided new information on the risks and clinical challenges presented by individuals who use psychostimulants (cocaine, methamphetamine and prescription stimulants). A review of the clinical strategies that are important in working with this population were presented, including psychosocial and medication treatments for those with stimulant use disorder. Presented by Richard Rawson, Ph.D.
Posted 5/13/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
In recent years, much attention in the U.S. has been focused on the opioid crisis, which was responsible for nearly 46,000 overdose deaths in 2018. This crisis initially began to accelerate in the early 2000s with a steady rise in the abuse of prescription pain medications, and beginning around 2010, opioid deaths increasingly involved heroin. As of 2013, the ready availability of potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl ushered in a new era of rapidly increasing opioid overdose deaths, with the total number of opioid deaths doubling between 2013 and 2018. Deaths involving synthetic opioids have continued to rise very rapidly, even as involvement of commonly prescribed prescription opioids and heroin has leveled off recently.