A medication for meth use? Seattle health care workers want to see if it works – By Sydney Brownstone and Scott Greenstone (Seattle Times) / July 13 2020
Artist Riley Stolte grew up in Seattle around family members who struggled with substance use disorders.
By age 14, Stolte had started using drugs herself, and for the next 16 years battled heroin and methamphetamine addictions. That was until Stolte started taking Suboxone, an opioid-treatment medication that removed her desire for heroin.
But there wasn’t any medication like that for meth. And because meth helped Stolte focus on her art, she struggled to stop using it — even though, she says, it made her “psychotic.”
“I told myself in my head, ‘I can’t do my art or paint without a little meth,’” Stolte said. “And I believed that, too.”
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