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Meth Next Door

Envision San Diego: Meth Next Door explores the stunning impact crystal methamphetamine use has on public safety and the pervasiveness of the drug and the wide spectrum of those addicted, from housewives to business owners to teenagers. Meth isn’t just a problem of the street corners, it could quite literally be living next door.

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Read Joanne Faryon's blog post: To Trust a Thief, on the relationship between meth abuse and mail fraud.

News, Information and Resources on Meth Abuse in San Diego County

County knocks meth use – The San Diego Union-Tribune Jul 9, 2008

Two county supervisors, sheriff’s deputies and county health workers walked door-to-door in Imperial Beach yesterday in an effort to fight methamphetamine use with brochures, advice and refrigerator magnets.

Meth’s Toll: Life at the Bottom – KPBS Local News Dec 14, 2007

California to Launch Anti-Meth Campaign Next Year – KPBS Radio News Nov 28, 2007

Meth Resources

Methamphetamine Strike Force

Phoenix House, A National Drug Treatment Program

Methamphetamines: A free collection of articles about methamphetamines published in The New York Times.

Drug Enforcement Administration : Methamphetamine

Office of National Drug Control Policy – Methamphetamine

National Institute on Drug Abuse – InfoFacts: Methamphetamine

The Partnership for A Drug-Free America

How Meth Destroys the Body

It's My Life – Drug Abuse: Methamphetamine

Parents. The Anti-Drug. – Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine.org – The UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs

Crystal Meth and Methamphetamine Links

California Attorney General's Meth Community Coalition Resource Guide

Meth Around the World

A Twice-Told Tale of Addiction: By Father, by Son – New York Times Feb 26, 2008
Nic's book, "Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines," is a first-person account on his drug addiction, which began while he was still in high school (where he learned to shoot up from studying a diagram on the Internet) and lasted for more than a decade. For much of that time he was living on the street, prostituting himself, selling drugs occasionally (though he was never very good at it) and eating food salvaged from Dumpsters; he would turn up in his parents' lives occasionally, sometimes to steal from them.

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