This report uses data from the 2015–2018 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs) to estimate methamphetamine use rates in the United States and to identify characteristics associated with past-year methamphetamine use. Although overall population rates of methamphetamine use have remained relatively stable in recent years ( 3), methamphetamine availability and methamphetamine-related harms (e.g., methamphetamine involvement in overdose deaths and number of treatment admissions) have increased in the United States* ( 4, 5) however, analyses examining methamphetamine use patterns and characteristics associated with its use are limited. Methamphetamine use is associated with a range of health harms, including psychosis and other mental disorders, cardiovascular and renal dysfunction, infectious disease transmission, and overdose ( 1, 2). Methamphetamine is a highly addictive central nervous system stimulant.
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