WASHINGTON – Besides terrorism, the USA Patriot Act renewal poised for final congressional passage this week takes aim at the production of methamphetamine by imposing new limits next month for how ...

Methamphetamine is a potent stimulant in the same class of drugs as cocaine, but it’s far stronger, with effects that can ...

The Combat Meth Act, promoted by U.S. Sen. Jim Talent, might be approved next week when Congress debates the USA-Patriot Act Reauthorization Conference Report. The bipartisan anti-meth bill, also ...

A decade ago, the ubiquity of the do-it-yourself methamphetamine labs made for a lot of lazy go-to punch lines about Spokane and Kootenai County. Back then, Spokane and North Idaho were both ...

Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., visited the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department on Thursday to promote his bipartisan Combat Meth Act, a bill that would force pseudoephedrine-containing drugs behind ...

On March 9, President Bush signed the U.S. PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act, which included enactment of the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. See Pub. L. No. 109-177, 120 Stat.

The reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act that President Bush recently signed into law has received much attention, and rightly so. Despite the failed attempts by some to misrepresent what the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- A state lawmaker from San Francisco is proposing a radically different approach to address meth addiction by making California the first state to pay people to get and stay ...

Following the New York Legislature's passage last week of tougher penalties for methamphetamine production - which Gov. George Pataki is expected to sign - a key congressional committee is taking a ...

This study reveals that 50% of patients presenting to the emergency department with acute methamphetamine intoxication report suicidal ideation, the severity being comparable to that in patients ...