At Spurwink, a Portland mental health clinic, a troubling trend has emerged as patients treated for opioid addiction have been disappearing for days or weeks. Symptoms exhibited by those who return do not align with opioid use; instead, they show signs consistent with stimulant use, particularly methamphetamine. This cheap and potent drug is replacing opioids in popularity, challenging the successes in opioid treatment. While the city has seen a decline in opioid-related deaths due to effective treatments, the rise of meth threatens to undermine these gains, reflecting a broader national crisis.
Patients at Spurwink, a mental health clinic in Portland, Maine, have gone missing while dealing with opioid addiction, raising concerns about a rising methamphetamine crisis.
Despite initial hopes from declining opioid deaths due to treatments, Portland is facing a new threat: methamphetamine, a pervasive stimulant that's spreading rapidly.
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