If meth labs are such a huge problem, how many labs have you seen on the local news getting busted? How many people have you read about being charged with meth possession/manufacture?
Isn't it possible that the media is once again sensationalizing the news - in this case, the fact that the government wants more money to fight the War on Drugs? Likewise, is it possible that the government embellishes facts to scare you into spending more on this War on Drugs?
I worked as a criminal attorney in rural West Virginia (where everyone is supposedly making the stuff) for almost three years, and I did not see ONE charge of meth possession/distribution/manufacture. I worked on several hundred cases, but out of about 10,000 cases that people were charged with, not one of them was meth manufacture or even simple possession!
So, I ask you this: without regurgitating what the media and government want you to believe, do YOU believe there a meth pandemic?
2007-01-15 01:21:28 · 8 answers · asked by bluesc2beatnu 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I used to work in a hospital, I think that is where you are going to see the full impact of the problem. It was fairly regular that we would have a methss addicted that was out of control, had been shot, stabbed and they were not feeling the pain. We would see a lot of overdoses, whether is was meth, or Ecstasy laced with MDMA. WE would see extreme dehydration or malnutrition that was caused by benders spanning over weeks. WE would have the occasional addicted infant either brought in for treatment, or being born.
Meth is a problem. The people who are going to have the most insight are the persons treating these people on the front lines. In order to make it into the criminal justice system they have to get caught.
It is more likely that a person is going to have a major medical event than it is they will be caught.
2007-01-15 01:40:11 · answer #1 · answered by smedrik 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, definitely.
IMO, the media isn't sensationalizing a thing. Meth just isn't being made here in the US nearly as much it was a few years ago... now it's more widely manufactured in Mexican superlabs, then smuggled across the border.
Here in Okie land, meth possession/distribution is a VERY common occurance! Our county has now instated drug court to prove the problem...
Let me also add that I had a close family member who was addicted to meth (now in recovery, thank God!)... and that's when I realized just how prevalent the problem really is.
It's not just in the media... it's everywhere.
2007-01-18 13:17:07 · answer #2 · answered by Sweet Melissa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about a pandemic, but there's been several in the past few years busted in my area of SE Texas.
It's worse in the city's with no local police, where the only law enforcement is county Sheriff's with too large an area to keep up with. That's where their hiding out.
As a former employee of our local MHMR authority, which also had a rehabilitative program for recently released drug felons, I saw way too much of the effects of meth. Yes it's a problem, but it's not as easy to get the ingredients anymore now that sudafed is behind the counter.
2007-01-15 02:27:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The home grown meth is not all that big a problem now, what with the ephedrine restrictions, but foreign imports are beginning to overtake heroin and cocaine. Meth labs in Mexico, Central and South America are much easier to operate (via corruption), and the big chemical companies manufacturing ephedrine worldwide are still increasing their production as the big foreign meth labs proliferate. A no win. On a street level, meth is a national disgrace... and the cause of 80% of crime today in the U.S.
2007-01-15 01:50:25 · answer #4 · answered by Gunny T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without a doubt. These people in their quest to get high will put just about anything in their body. The ingredients in meth are horrible. Who thought of mixing antifreeze and a few other ingredients in a pot cooking it and then smoking what came out? It is a cheap to manufacture drug and I think that is why it is an epidemic.
2007-01-15 01:42:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just like the immigration issue. The police have no power anymore. If you get robbed by a meth head, thank a liberal.
2007-01-15 01:38:24 · answer #6 · answered by FireBug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
flush your crystal and delete the numbers of your sellers and under no circumstances contact that stuff back or be round all and sundry who does it. in case you do not do all of this then you honestly're dropping a even as questioning about gettin sparkling
2016-10-31 03:54:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'll tell ya. this isn't just sensationalism. it's an epidemic especially among rural white kids.
2007-01-15 01:36:54 · answer #8 · answered by eskew_obfuscation 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋