The closure of several Colorado libraries due to meth contamination has put the spotlight back on the methamphetamine epidemic, which is sometimes called “the silent epidemic”
“People sometimes talk about it as the epidemic that folks don't look at,” said Dr. Joseph Sakai, an addiction psychiatrist and associate professor at the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
Like the opioid epidemic, which has received much of the focus in recent years, the meth epidemic has claimed the lives of thousands of people in Colorado. Instead, doctors often use psychological treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy and contingency management. As an alternative, Sakai and a team of researchers at the CU CONA Lab are putting together a study to see if Deep Brain Stimulation can help people addicted to meth.“It’s a long-term trial, where half the time they will have the stimulation on hours to determine whether the stimulation really does have any kind of an effect,” said Sakai. “We’re open to recruitment now and we want to bring in and essentially recruit and complete the procedures for five individuals.
"Our remediation process has begun. It will require a triple application of a mild detergent to clean the affected areas by state-certified experts," Chris Harguth, the director of communications for the City of Englewood, said in an email to Denver7.
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