Backpacks being used as travelling Meth Labs
April 8, 2008
Backpacks are now being used as portable meth labs, according to WSBT Channel 2 in Indiana. I don’t think I’ve heard of anything more stupid or dangerous that this method. Strap a backpack on your back full of mixed chemicals that are highly explosive? What are they thinking?!!!
Here’s an excerpt of WSBT’s story:
Chemicals are placed in a backpack that’s usually kept outdoors or in a car. It then becomes a mobile lab to make meth. “Backpack labs are becoming much more common,” explained Trooper Jason Faulstich, a meth suppression officer with the Indiana State Police. “Because of the new method they using, it’s called the ‘one pot,’ they can combine everything in a backpack, carry it around, put it in Read more
Oklahoma Senator says landlords should pay for methlab cleanup
April 8, 2008
Sen. Roger Ballenger, D-Okmulgee, is pushing for a new law to make landlords responsible for paying for the cleanup of their property if it has been contaminated by meth. Currently, no one is responsible for cleaning up an apartment or home if it was used as a meth lab. The landlord is supposed to tell you that it was a meth Read more
Missouri: Meth lab found near Puxico
April 7, 2008
April 1, 2008 - Police found meth, marijuana, illegal prescription drugs, and an active meth lab at the home of Dennis and Tina Hayden located at 583 N. Hwy. 51 near Puxico. The couple faces several felony charges including manufacturing methamphetamine, attemped manufacture of meth, possession of a precursor to the manufacture of meth, felony charge related to drug paraphernalia, and felony possession of a controlled substance. They remain in jail in lieu of $250,000 bond.
Book: American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America
April 7, 2008
American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America
is written by Sterling Braswell, a 1987 Texas A & M graduate, who has researched and written about meth for the last 4 years. Braswell, like so many others, has experienced first hand what meth can do to someone you love. Braswell was married to a woman who was unable to overcome her meth addiction. His book talks about his personal experience, but it also provides readers a glimpse of the meth lab problem in the U.S.
Here’s an excerpt about the book from Amazon:
“According to the DEA statistics, approximately four percent of all Americans have used clandestinely manufactured methamphetamine. In the 1960s and 1970s millions of mainstream Americans used and abused prescription amphetamines; today, anyone with a stovetop, a beaker, and a little know-how can make its derivative, methamphetamine, with chemicals purchased at the hardware store and pharmacy down the street.”
Book: Beautiful Boy - A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Meth Addiction
April 7, 2008
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
was written by David Sheff, a popular journalist, whose teenage son first tried methamphetamine at the age of 17. What began as his son’s experimental use of the drug began a father’s struggle to save his son and his family from the devastating effects of a meth addiction. Beautiful boy is the story of father’s love and the pain that meth addiction causes a family.
What some Amazon readers felt about the book:
“This is a stunningly written, intense and emotional memoir of a father’s struggle to deal with his brilliant, charismatic, and caring son’s addiction to methamphetamine. It is honest and authentic and raw and heart-rending and fascinating. It is unforgettable. As I read, I felt many emotions for both the father and son—everything from anger to sadness to grief to fear. I felt as though I was right there on the emotional roller coaster with the author. Even if you have no personal experience of a loved one’s addiction, you will be moved by this father’s struggle to cope with his son’s substance abuse turmoils. Despite methamphetamine being this country’s most problematic drug, many of us, including me, know very little about it, and may not initially Read more
