Overdoses From Stimulants Like Methamphetamine Are On the Rise

Send us Fan MailThis year the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is focusing it’s no one left behind fundraising campaign on substance use and addiction.  Opioid use and deaths are still the biggest crisis with more 7300 deaths in Canada in 2022. But use of stimulants like methamphetamine, also know as crystal meth, is also increasing.  Mixed drug toxicity, for example meth with an opioid, is a major contributor to overdoses and deaths.Dr. Leslie Buckley is chief of addcition services at CAMH and she’s on the show today to talk about stimulants.