Meth Inc.: Industrial-scale Mexican labs now pushing top-grade poison our way is a piece published a few weeks ago by the Arizona Daily Star, that talks about corporate meth; The new meth source. Yes, Americas drug war managed to push local meth production into Mexico. The demand never went away. This is the legacy of our war on drugs; pouring gasoline on a fire. The more you try and kill it, the bigger it gets. Just north of the U.S.-MEXICO border, Arizona is No. 1 in the nation for high school methamphetamine use, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rural areas in Arizona and other states tend to be hit even harder and the drug is easy to get from Mexico. One meth hot spot, Central Valley, California, is home to some of the most impoverished rural towns in America, where crystal meth addiction is prolific. In Fresno, Louis Theroux finds a community ravaged by this cheap and highly addictive drug in his documentary, The City addicted to Crystal Meth Meth is just one drug that is tearing apart our country.
Fighting America’s craving for drugs is not easy. Crystal Darkness is one small campaign to end the madness. You can view their website: CRYSTAL DARKNESS. Their mission, however, clear is dwarfed by the immensity of the problem in America. Now with the economy in shambles, where will young addicts turn?…State funded rehab? It’s clear that an entire reversal of what we have been doing for the last 40 years has to take place. Emphasis has to be on recovery and saving our youth. Drug addiction has to be given legitimacy as a disease that devours our young like a rouge cancer. Killing it is not working. It needs to enter the realm of medical science. We are better than this.
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August 19, 2011 at 2:24 pm
susan lea
I wonder, do the middle schools and high schools in the U.S. ever show documentaries like “The City Addicted to Crystal Meth” in the classrooms? The level of ignorance among our youth is almost as astonishing as the level of ignorance among adults in our country. My daughter recently tried to tell a beautiful young girl that using meth would ruin her looks. The girl became furious and told my daughter she didn’t know what she was talking about. This is partly denial. But it’s also a serious lack of information.
August 21, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Dadonfire
I don’t know if they do. I suspect they have their periodic JUST SAY NO, D.A.R.E. style, ineffective anti-drug updates. Obviously the more of these documentaries we show to high school kids, the better. Sadly, I think American’s are willing to accept that 10% or more of our teens are throw aways, as we do for adults. I know that is cynical, but, I also think that teachers, public people, etc., know they are hamstrung in their efforts. I watched Tucson’s Project M.O.R.E’s alternative school project act clueless to the concentration of teen users that they attract from the general high school population. The School District uses Project M.O.R.E. to separate problem teens and addicts from the general population while attempting to maintain the most minimal education standards. They offer NA and AA meetings which is good, but the teens just laugh at it. They seem to know they are just being marginalized and shoved aside. My gut still tells me that a recovery based drug policy from the top down, which includes schools, is key. We need to start acting like a sober level headed nation and treating youth as an investment. A complete re-thinking of drug war policy will be a starting point. When is the question.