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Conquering a Drug Crisis
Source: KYMA.com
By: Alejandra Cerball |
November 15, 2008 -
It's an epidemic that has swept throughout
the nation...the drug known as crystal meth.
As millions are affected by its use, some
communities are looking for a way to
eliminate the problem by educating people.
The city of Yuma joined the fight against
meth on Friday as they held their 3rd Annual
Meth Summit. Speakers included former users
of meth who understand the hardships meth
causes one to go through. Joseph Auger, who
was once addicted to meth, shared his
experiences with meth at the summit to help
adults stay on the right path, and help
those who are addicted to meth overcome
their struggle.
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Crystal Meth: Its Grip is Relentless
Source: SFGate.com
By: John Diaz |
November 9, 2008 - One
by one, the clients at the 28-day rehab
facility introduced themselves and their
addictions, the way participants in another
group venue might identify their alma maters
or employers. "I'm Joe, I'm an alcoholic."
"I'm Sarah, I'm an addict, methamphetamine."
The counselor turned to the friends and
family members of the dozen or so clients
who were there for a two-hour session. He
asked: "Who wants to start?" No one
volunteered. He then gazed at a woman of
about 20, who had placed her left hand on
the knee of her younger sister.
"I'm angry, and I really don't want to be
here," she began, without a trace of emotion
in her voice. "But I am here, because I love
my father."
She proceeded to catalog the devastation her
father's addiction to crystal meth had
wreaked on the family: the wild mood swings,
the abrupt absences for days at a time, the
financial ruin, his physical and mental
deterioration. She spoke of the anxiety
inflicted on her mother, who was getting
tested monthly after learning recently that
her husband had become HIV-positive.
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Crytal Meth replacing Cocaine in N.Y.
Source: UPI.com |
October 27, 2008
- Authorities say the skyrocketing price of
cocaine is prompting drug dealers in New
York to push crystal meth as a replacement.
John Gilbride of the federal Drug
Enforcement Agency says the shift in the
drug market has led to a vast increase in
crystal meth seizures this year, the New
York Post reported Monday.
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Parents often let children fall through the
cracks when drugs take priority
Author: Ruth Liao
Source: StatesmanJournal.com |
October 25, 2008
- A mother or father who is using
methamphetamine and has children can face
dire consequences in the criminal-justice
and child-welfare systems: drug charges and
having children taken into foster care,
coupled with drug-abuse treatment.
Families struggling with drug and alcohol
abuse remain the biggest factor in child
abuse and/or neglect cases, according to
Oregon Department of Human Services Children
and Families Division.
"The kids didn't make any choices to put
them where they're at," said Marion County
Deputy District Attorney David Wilson, who
prosecutes cases that involve
drug-endangered children. "They're the
victims."
From 2000 to 2006, methamphetamine was the
drug most parents were using in at least 60
percent of the cases, Oregon DHS reports
said.
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Why Meth is Known as the Ugly Drug
Author: Michele Brunoro
Source: ctv.ca |
September 27, 2008 - There is nothing pretty
about crystal meth in terms of how it makes
an addict look and and feel.
No-one knows that better than Jaspaul Seehra,
who works at a dental office on Vancouver's
Downtown Eastside. In that role, he has
become highly familiar to "meth mouth."
"The teeth rot out to the point that little
stubs are left,''he said.
Seehra says that's because the ingredients
in meth are utterly destructive to teeth.
They include materials like ammonia, lead,
and battery acid, contaminants that tend to
stick around.
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Montana
Meth ads winning drug battle
Author: Jonathan Beale
Source: BBC News |
August 22, 2008
- But there is a far less wholesome side to
this wilderness, a problem more associated
with grim urban despair - drugs.
And one drug in particular -
Methamphetamine.
Also known as crystal meth, the stimulant is
more addictive than heroin or crack cocaine.
It is also relatively easy to get hold of
the basic ingredients, including drain
cleaner and cold medicines, although more
dangerous to mix them.
That said, Montana's wide open spaces have
provided the perfect cover for makeshift
meth labs, which are used to make the deadly
cocktail.
Until recently, the north-western state was
ranked among the top five in the US with the
worst meth problem.
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Meth Cravings are Really Intense
Author: Leigh Blenkhorn
Source: BarrieAdvance.com |
July 29, 2008 - It’s known as speed, meth,
chalk, ice, crystal, or crystal meth but no
matter what it’s called, methamphetamine is
a highly addictive drug.
Methamphetamine is a type of amphetamine, a
powerful stimulant that speeds up the body’s
central nervous system.
The drug is a white, odourless,
bitter-tasting powder that can be snorted,
swallowed, smoked or injected.
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The Devil's Drug
Source:
LoughboroughEcho.net
By Matt Jarram |
Jun 13 2008 - ICE,
glass, crank, crystal, ice cream, tweak,
shabu... it seems one of the world’s
strongest and most addictive drugs has many
names.
But like most drugs, whether it is marijuana
with the hippies or ecstasy with the ravers,
it was discovered long before it found
itself a dress code.
In fact, the highly damaging drug crystal
meth, a form of Methamphetamine, has a
history as far back as World War II. It was
even drug Number Ein for Adolf Hitler.
So, how did the ‘devil’s drug’ find itself
in sleepy Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, only
an hour away from Loughborough?
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Meth labs among
law enforcement's most dangerous assignments
Source:
PalmBeachPost.com
By Jill Taylor |
April 5, 2008 - There
aren't many things a law enforcement officer
will back away from and close the door.
A suspected methamphetamine lab is one of
them.
Toxic chemical and vapors produced in the
labs can be deadly.
"In a 20-minute exposure, you could lose 40
percent of your lung capacity," said Martin
Sheriff's Sgt. George Herrschaft, who is
certified to investigate and dismantle the
labs as part of a task force in conjunction
with the federal Drug Enforcement
Administration.
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Street Kids
using crystal meth at 'alarming' rate
Darah Hansen, Vancouver Sun |
April 2, 2008 -
Injection drug use is on the rise among
street youth in Vancouver, fuelled by
alarming rates of crystal methamphetamine
use, a new study has found.
The federally funded study, written by
medical researchers with the B.C. Centre for
Excellence in HIV/AIDS, found that crystal
meth users surveyed were four times more
likely to inject drugs, compared to drug
users who didn't use crystal meth.
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Study links
crystal meth to future injected drugs
Source: CTV.ca - The
Canadian Press |
April 2, 2008 -
VANCOUVER -- Health workers have long known
of the highly addictive properties of
crystal methamphetamine but a new study
backs up the link between use of the drug
and future injection drug use.
The findings are contained in a report by
researchers with the B.C. Centre for
Excellence in HIV/AIDS. In one of the first
studies of its kind, 478 street youth in
Vancouver were interviewed and 94 per cent
reported it was "very easy" to find the drug
on city streets.
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Health Problems
Source: PE.com
By Dan Bernstein |
March 20, 2008 -Josh Hipps, retired
skinhead, said it started in ninth grade
when he fell in with some great guys who
accepted him for who he was.
Sure, his parents had given him the talk,
but these were cool dudes and, well, okay,
he let his guard down and had a few
cigarettes. And you know what? The sky
didn't fall. But the "conditioning" had
begun. Next, it was pot. Then booze, coke
and, finally crystal meth.
Heavily tattooed and squirming, the guest
speaker explained that life as an addict
made him unemployable. So he robbed people
at knifepoint. Stabbed and got stabbed. Did
time. Now, here he was, 30 years old and
"begging" Elsinore High students, "Don't let
people pressure you into anything."
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Other Voices: Discover more about meth
through county action team
By Michelle Schiro
Source: TheUnion.com |
March 12, 2008 - It seems that we often read
about meth-related crimes in The Union.
Throughout the country, methamphetamine has
wreaked havoc on families and community.
Even People magazine recently profiled a
family’s struggle with its son’s crystal
meth addiction.
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AZ broadcasters team up to spread message
about meth dangers
Source: kold.com |
March 3, 2008 - PHOENIX (AP) - Television
stations across Arizona are teaming up in
April to simultaneously broadcast a
documentary on the dangers of crystal meth.
The documentary, called "Crystal Darkness,"
will include discussions with meth addicts
and with officials who will highlight the
problems associated with the drug.
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MBN: After years of decline, Meth labs on
rise
Source: wapt.com |
February 8, 2008 - JACKSON, Miss. --
Methamphetamine laboratories are set up by
criminals in areas that many would never
suspect a drug lab would be, police said.
The Drug Enforcement Agency has set up a Web
site, the DEA's National Clandestine
Laboratory Register, that allows residents
to find out if a meth lab was reported in
their neighborhoods. Officials said the Web
site lists addresses where some meth
incidents occurred.
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AZ broadcasters team up to spread message
about meth dangers
Source: kold.com |
March 3, 2008 - PHOENIX (AP) - Television
stations across Arizona are teaming up in
April to simultaneously broadcast a
documentary on the dangers of crystal meth.
The documentary, called "Crystal Darkness,"
will include discussions with meth addicts
and with officials who will highlight the
problems associated with the drug.
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Three arrested for allegedly running meth
lab near shelter
Source: The Natchez Democrat
By: Vershal Hogan |
January 30, 2008 - Three
locals were arrested Monday night after they
were allegedly discovered to be running a
meth lab next door to a local battered
women’s and children’s shelter.
Robert Mahony Jr., 40, 603 Oak St., was
charged with seat belt violation, driving
under suspension, two counts of
manufacturing crystal methamphetamines,
possession of methamphetamines and a
precursor violation.
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Schumer backs 'meth mouth' bill
Source: Star.Gazette.com |
January 26, 2008 - U.S. Sen. Charles
Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Thursday that
legislation has been introduced to fight the
use of methamphetamine by raising awareness
of its dangers in local schools.
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Drug dependents not deterred by price
increase
By Arnell Dimaandal
Source; KESQ.com |
January 23, 2008 - Federal authorities have
seeing a rise in the price of illegal drugs,
namely in cocaine and methamphetamine.
The Drug Enforcement Agency attributes the
rising price of cocaine on a supply
shortage.
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Busts challenge meth's reach
Source: Boston.com
By; Erica Noonan |
January 20, 2008 - The men, authorities
allege, were set up to "cook" small amounts
of a controlled drug, methamphetamine, from
a toxic mix of chemical solvents and ...
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Meth is devastating Hawaii
Source; Hawaii Reporter |
January 19, 2008 - The death count continues
to mount in Hawaii as politicians sit by and
do nothing.
A 23-month-old toddler is murdered last week
after he is tossed off an H-1 Freeway
overpass by a crystal methamphetamine
addict. Ironically, the mother of the
toddler is a former Meth or ICE addict as
well.
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Home drug labs a growing danger for
Children's Aid workers; Crystal meth
operations can be lethal, meeting told
Source: The Sun Times |
January 18, 2008 - On top of heartbreaking
interviews with parents addled by years of
methamphetamine addiction, Children's Aid
Society workers increasingly face personal
hazards in homes where crystal meth and
other drugs are manufactured.
Grey County CAS protection service manager
Julie Lipsett said Thursday the presence of
methamphetamine in area homes, particularly
in southern areas of Grey County, has risen
in recent years.
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Ex-crystal meth addict successfully sues
dealer
Source: CTA.ca News |
January 9, 2008 - A Saskatchewan woman who
overdosed on crystal methamphetamine has
successfully won a precedent-setting civil
lawsuit against the drug dealer who sold her
the highly addictive drug.
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Trio Arrested on Crystal Meth
Charges
by: Sanna Trad
Source: The Australian |
December 18, 2007 - THREE men will appear in
court on charges of attempting to possess $8
million worth of crystal methamphetamine,
allegedly smuggled into Australian in
candles.
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