“…While there is a paucity of research among arthroplasty literature, amphetamine abuse, in particular methamphetamine abuse has been shown to lead to adverse surgical and medical outcomes particularly within orthopaedic trauma literature. One retrospective study from a single level 1 trauma institution found a 3-fold increase in reoperation rates for patients who abuse methamphetamine undergoing open reduction and internal fixation for acetabular fracture [ 4 ]. Research has shown that patients with amphetamine abuse disorder have higher resource utilization, with increased cardiovascular perioperative complications, longer length of stay, and higher in-hospital mortality and readmission rate [ 2 , 3 , 5 , 6 ].…”