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NATIONAL METHAMPHETAMINE TRAINING & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER
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Latest news: 11-17-2010
How to kill the meth monster
The latest bad news from the world of methamphetamine is that makers of the drug have perfected a one-pot recipe that enables them to manufacture their highly addictive product while on the move, often in their car. The materials they need — a two-liter soda bottle, a few cold pills and some household chemicals — are easily obtained and easily discarded, often in a trash bag dumped along the highway.
There is, however, a simple way to end this mobile industry — and, indeed, most methamphetamine production. We’ve tried it in Oregon, and have seen how well it works. Just keep a key ingredient, pseudoephedrine, out of the hands of meth producers.
Meth 'most deadly street drug in history'
GA - Cheaper than most alcohol. More potent than heroin. More addictive than crack. Methamphetamine is perhaps the most deadly street drug in history. "Meth is one of those drugs that’s a stimulant just like cocaine but you stay high longer," said Victor Camp with the Albany-Dougherty Drug Unit. "You smoke crystal meth, 2 or 4 seconds, you’re going to feel the effects. Now you can stay high up to 6,7,8,12 hours." It comes in two forms: powder, for snorting and inhaling, and crystal for smoking. The side effects are devastating - paranoia, rotting teeth and tingling sensations in the skin, called ‘meth bugs,’ that are so strong they cause users to tear off their own flesh.
Narconon spokesperson cites meth residues in waste water
OR - They did it in Italy. They did it in Germany. And now its been done in Oregon. The testing of municipal waste water to determine levels of chemicals that are only present in the body waste of people using illicit drugs. In this case scientists were looking for residues from cocaine methamphetamine and the party and dance club drug Ecstasy. And they found residues everywhere they tested. For one day March 4 2008 scientists tested samples of wastewater from 96 different municipal wastewater systems in urban suburban and rural areas. These 96 systems represent 65 percent of the population of Oregon. Cocaine metabolites were found mostly in urban areas but methamphetamine residues were found everywhere. Ecstasy was not present at all in more than half the areas tested and the areas that did show Ecstasy residues were mostly urban.
Parental involvement is key to drug prevention
DE - The softening of young people's perception of the harms from illegal drug use continues with the starkest impact on the nation's minority teens. The Office of National Drug Control Policy data show significant increases in drug use among young African-American teen girls and Hispanic teen boys between 2008 and 2009. Drug use among black/non-Hispanic females ages 12 to 17 increased from 7.3 percent in 2008 to 10.4 percent in 2009, and Hispanic males of the same age group from 9.2 percent in 2008 to 12.8 percent in 2009; increases of 43 percent and 39 percent, respectively.
