Old news.
I was sitting in front of a public library minding my own business when I was 14 and was approached out of the blue by someone on meth who wanted to kick my *** and nearly did. Thank God I had a large male friend with me who stepped in...
My mom unwittingly moved in to an apartment that was formerly a meth lab, and it exacerbated her medical problems. The property owners illegally hid this information... it was only when I found out through connections with the FD and PD "hey a few years ago at this apt in this building we had a crazy meth lab bust" did the truth come out. She moved out soon after.
I did an article for my HS newspaper years ago about the growing meth problem. One of the officers I interviewed told me he was haunted by the fact that on every meth lab bust he'd ever been on (and he'd been on more than he could count)... there were young, neglected/abused children in the house.
It's a damn shame and the thing is, in my opinion, it negatively affects more innocent people than any other drug. There is such a strong correlation with child abuse, domestic violence, identity theft... crime in general. And even if you're totally innocent minding your own business doing nothing illegal, you can always have a meth lab next door and not even know it.... all of the hazmat and risk of explosion. The unbelievably high cost of making a former meth lab site livable again.... there are just so many problems associated with this drug. It's all very sad.
