Methamphetamine is already one of riskiest drugs of abuse throughout the U.S. and worldwide-the highly addictive stimulant causing irreversible physical and cognitive impairments and too often death for thousands of users-but now researchers have discovered a new alarming trend among meth users that has remained rather undetected in previous studies. According to researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, injection methamphetamine users are significantly more likely than other injection drug users to attempt suicide-a difference by as much as 80%. The researchers’ findings have been published in the December issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
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