KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Rodney Rogers remembers the pain. His teeth constantly ached, so severely at times he would dig into his gums with a needle hoping to sever the nerves and stop the pain. As he ...

Severe dental disease is common among people addicted to methamphetamine and cocaine, as is tooth loss, complicating treatment and recovery. Oral health is often entirely overlooked by individuals ...

Crystal methamphetamine is the most widely used synthetic drug in the world, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. It’s an extremely addictive stimulant that dramatically affects ...

Jonathan Opra likes to think of himself as an approachable guy, especially now that his heroin addiction is behind him. Yet you wouldn’t always know it from the look on his face. That’s because Opra, ...

Q: "Dr. Arnold, I recently heard the expression `meth mouth' used in relation to a teenage drug user in my neighborhood. What does that mean?" A: We have all read stories about the growing problem of ...

MARYVILLE, Mo. - The growing use of highly addictive methamphetamine throughout the country is creating a prominent scar on an increasing number of users — rotting, brittle teeth that seem to crumble ...

MARYVILLE, Mo. — Jeffery Lotshaw flossed regularly. He brushed faithfully, sometimes four or five times in a day. All that care makes his condition seem incomprehensible — at the age of just 33, ...