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| Pure 'Ice' Fueling Methamphetamine Epidemic |
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The rate of methamphetamine use in the U.S. is relatively stable, but "apparently paradoxically" admissions to treatment programs have skyrocketed.
And one reason for the increase may be the success of law enforcement programs in shutting down illegal domestic labs producing the drugs-opening the market to purer crystalline methamphetamine, or "ice," the American Psychiatric Association meeting here was told.
From 1993 and 2004, the number of admissions for treatment of substance abuse involving stimulants most connected with methamphetamine rose from 28,000 a year to about 150,000, said James Colliver, Ph.D., of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, during a symposium on the epidemic of methamphetamine abuse.
The figures are based on state numbers reported as part of the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), collected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
But data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future (MTF) study indicate that the rate of methamphetamine use
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