Meth, methamphetamine , Crystal Meth
Meth, or Crystal Meth is a very pure, smokeable form of methamphetamine . It is an extremely addictive catalyst that looks like unclouded crystal chunks, almost like ice.
Meth is usually smoked, inhaled or injected. The effects of Meth are similar to those of crack cocaine but longer long-lasting. Crystal Meth can father erratic, violent posture among its users. Additional effects include suppressed heat, intervention with sleeping behavior, mood swings and unpredictability, quivers and convulsions, increased blood pressure, extemporaneous heart rate.
The meth epidemic took root on the West Coast, and is now worsening in many big cities nationwide. But nowhere is its heartbreaking price on young adults and children more evident than in the towns and small cities of America’s heartland-the Bible Belt Mid-West.
Authorities dismantled more than 50,000 clandestine meth labs since 2001, including some 4,000 in Iowa. Roughly 30 percent were “mom and pop” labs in homes where children domicile. Thousands of children across the country have been taken away from their meth-abusing fathers and mothers in recent years, placed with relatives or shifted into already overloaded foster care organizations. Scores of workers have been injured, a dozen or more killed; thousands have been born with traces of meth in their bodies.
Mobile and motel-based methamphetamine labs have caught the attention of both the US news media and the police. Such labs can cause explosions and conflagrations, and put the public in contact with dangerous chemicals. Those who manufacture methamphetamine are often harmed by toxic gases. Police departments formed specialized task forces with training to respond to cases of methamphetamine production. The National Drug Threat Assessment 2006, produced by the Department of Justice, found “decreased domestic methamphetamine production in both small and ample-scale laboratories”, but also stated ”decreases in native methamphetamine production have been countervailed by full-fledged labs in Mexico.” They concluded that “ methamphetamine availability is not thinkable to decline in the near term.”
The Montana Meth Project is the largest advertiser in Montana, reaching 70-90% of teens three times a week. This is saturation-level advertising that appears to be working. For more information, visit The Montana Meth Project .
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