Crankin' It Up

The Christian Science Monitor reports on the dramatic and destructive increase in meth use:

"Around the country, law-enforcement officials say methamphetamine use has become an epidemic. Federal officials estimate there are 1.5 million regular meth users in the United States today. As of 2003, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 12.3 million Americans had tried methamphetamine at least once - up nearly 40 percent over 2000 and 156 percent over 1996."

Meth has been around for at least 20 years now in a pretty big way I thought. Maybe the effect is just beginning to show. It IS a nasty drug.