When your dad is a meth lab cook
July 24, 2008
The victims of meth lab homes include not only renters and home buyers, but also the children who have grown up with parents who make methamphetamine. Kambri Crews, a producer and publicist who now resides in New York City, says she once lived in a tent, a tin shed, a trailer, and then back to a tin shed in Montgomery, Texas before her family moved to Ft. Worth, Texas, the place where her family was ripped apart.
One of the articles in her blog lovedaddy.org called “Recipe for Disaster” talks about how her father used her to smuggle out a recipe to make methamphetamine that he got while he was in prison.
“Dad isn’t exactly learning marketable skills on the inside, so I guess he’s making a game plan for how to survive when he’s back on the outside. Judging by the instructions, it won’t take much money to become an entrepreneur. Hopefully becoming a meth lab operator will seem less logical when he returns to the Free World. But let’s face it, logic has never been one of Dad’s strong suits.”
I suspect that her father isn’t the only one who is getting a recipe to make methamphetamine in prison. The lack of jobs, particularly for those with a felony record, certainly doesn’t make finding a job to support yourself in today’s economy easy. After reading her story, it makes me wonder how many prisoners are planning to make a living making and selling methamphetamine when they’re released. It’s a scary thought.
Read more about Kambri Crew’s tragic childhood and her relationship with a violent father in her essay called “Just like my daddy“.
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