Stimulant overdoses on the rise as opioid deaths decline, but treatment is complex

• “The rate of overdose decline was not nearly what we expected” in California, said Dr Taylor Nichols, an emergency and addiction medicine physician based in Sacramento.
• Nichols said that stimulants “filled the gap” left by declining fentanyl overdoses.
• Methamphetamine and cocaine are the most common illicit stimulants.