Owning rental property places tremendous financial costs and ethical concerns for landlords, when a renter uses their property as a meth lab. Landlords, like private property owners who unknowingly bought former meth lab homes, are being victimized by by America’s meth lab problem and the lack of protection that is being awarded to private property …..Read More
Chemical Sensitivity: A Guide to Coping With Hypersensitivity Syndrome, Sick Building Syndrome and Other Environmental Illnesses This book, written from a patient’s perspective, first defines chemical sensitivity, then describes its effects, and discusses strategies for dealing with it. A complete resource listing, information on documenting a case, expert opinions on CS and an examination of …..Read More
This personal view of multiple chemical sensitivity and environmental illness is supported by research. In a question-and-answer format, the effects of exposure to perfume, smoke, air fresheners, cleaning products, exhaust, and other air contaminants are examined and linked to symptoms such as headaches, allergies, asthma, and fatigue. The book contains additional testimony and reports from …..Read More
Chemical and Electrical Hypersensitivity: A Sufferer’s Memoir Electrical and multiple chemical sensitivities are disabling illnesses, yet many doctors know little of these conditions, or worse, dismiss them. This timely memoir recounts one man’s affliction. The onset of the diseases is explored, as is his struggle with the medical establishment, largely hostile to his diagnosis. When …..Read More
Residents of a West Tulsa neighborhood were evacuated from their homes for several hours on Wednesday, after police discovered methlab chemicals and bomb-making materials in a neighbor’s home in Berryhill, just east of Chandler Park. According to KRMG, neighbors said “… they had heard a number of loud explosions in the area in recent days, …..Read More
Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster Kristen Johnston is an actress (‘The Exes’, ‘Third Rock From the Sun’), activist, and now, New York Times bestselling author, who takes an honest look at her addictions in Guts. “The real power of GUTS lies in its intention. While (Kristen) Johnston managed to …..Read More
The Kentucky Senate passed SB3, a bill that limits the sale of pseudoephedrine, by a 29-8 vote on Friday. The terms of SB3 place new restrictions on the over-the-counter purchase of dry forms of pseudoephedrine. Once the bill is signed in to law by Governor Beshear, consumers will need to obtain a doctor’s prescription if …..Read More
Wilson N.C. officials have taken on a new approach to methlab cleanup,that officials hope will significantly reduce the cost of cleaning up after a methlab bust. North Carolina is one of eight states who have opted to use container systems as a way to control the high cost of processing meth lab chemicals. The state …..Read More
(video post) The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled that Patrick Nicholas Lerch, a 17-month-old baby from Akron, died as a result of being poisoned by meth lab chemicals. The Medical Examiner also noted that the baby’s body showed signs of both neglect and abuse. February 13, 2012 On February 13, 2012, Kimberly Clark, …..Read More
Tips from local business owners about suspicious chemical purchases led police straight to a home on Indian Trail home on Thursday. In a garage behind the home, they discovered a 1-year-old infant and Teri Kuhns Witmore, a 27-year-old woman who was in the process of making methamphetamine, when police arrived. Union County Department of Social …..Read More
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