Newsweek has created this map to show the U.S. states with the highest ... Bryce Pardo, researcher at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, told Newsweek that meth is "cheaper and purer ...

But people can overdose on meth alone, and those deaths are rising. In 2023, the most recent year for which statistics are available, nearly 35,000 overdose deaths in the United States involved ...