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Creating Meth
Would you walk through a store, pick up a bottle of drain cleaner and guzzle it? No way! Well that's just one of the many ingredients used to make meth. Others include:
- Rubbing alcohol
- Cold pills
- Acetone
- Red phosphorous
- Gasoline antifreeze
- Cleaning products
- Battery acid
- Anhydrous ammonia (farm fertilizer)
- Lye
- Engine starter fluid
Try meth just once and you've just put a number of these chemicals in your body.
Most of the ingredients are easy to get a hold of. Fortunately, Governor Bredesen and the Tennessee General Assembly took the initiative in 2005 to limit the availability of the main ingredient in meth - ephedrine and/or pseudoephedrine. This is helping, but the problem has not gone away.
Meth recipes are also easy to find, and "labs" can be located just about anywhere - inside homes, barns, garages, motel rooms, and even vehicles.
Making meth can be as dangerous as taking it. Meth lab explosions shatter buildings, burning and incinerating everything in sight. Why? Meth's ingredients contain a hazardous combination of poisonous and flammable chemicals, which are heated on a stove or hot plate. A slight miscalculation with ingredients or cooking temperature, and meth becomes a deadly bomb.
Meth use is a real problem in Tennessee. Law enforcement, doctors, child protection providers and others get a daily reality check of what this deadly drug is doing to users, their families and the communities where they live. So why is this drug so popular?
For starters, meth has an addictive hook that is almost unequalled. It's an addiction that can take over from the first hit.
Facts
Intelligence has shown that cheap, high-purity heroin remained readily available in the northeastern and southwestern parts of Pennsylvania, areas where cocaine distribution dominated for years. Reports cited that some users in Pennsylvania smoke marijuana in combination with crack cocaine, heroin, and PCP. Reports also indicated that admissions for cocaine treatment have been overtaken by admissions for heroin treatment in several areas of central Pennsylvania. The availability of methamphetamine in Pennsylvania is low compared to the midwestern and western United States, however investigations and reports from state and local law enforcement in Pennsylvania confirm the eastward movement of methamphetamine production into Pennsylvania. The use of cocaine HCl in Pennsylvania, which is most commonly cooked into crack cocaine, remained a significant concern in suburban and rural communities outside of Philadelphia. Reports indicate that LSD is available in western Pennsylvania and in smaller urban areas north and west of Philadelphia. Caucasian juveniles and young adults who reside in these smaller urban areas and area colleges of Pennsylvania are reportedly the predominant users and distributors of LSD. |
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