Timef 04/16/2025

The devastating stimulant has been hitting Portland, Maine hard, even competing with fentanyl as the street drug of choice. Although a fentanyl overdose can be reversed with Narcan, no medicine can reverse a meth overdose. Nor has any been approved to treat meth addiction.Unlike fentanyl, which sedates users, meth can make people anxious and violent. Its effects can overwhelm not just users but community residents and emergency responders.Here are voices from one troubled neighborhood.

The highly addictive drug, manufactured almost exclusively by Mexican cartels, is more dangerous than ever. Its use has been surging across the country. Unlike fentanyl, there are no medicines that can swiftly reverse a meth overdose and none approved to treat meth addiction.

A powerful stimulant that keeps users sleepless for days and can ignite psychosis and violence has been rattling Portland and its safety networks.

While the agency stressed that increased screening was most likely behind much of the increase, the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., called it an “epidemic.”

An expedition spotted a juvenile of the species in the South Sandwich Islands. This cephalopod can grow to more than 20 feet and has proved elusive in its deep-sea environs.

Fast fashion retailers rely heavily on shipping by air. The president’s tariffs could change that.

In the first clinical trial of its kind, an A.I. chatbot eased mental health symptoms among participants. The technology may someday help solve the provider shortage.