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[BanzaiBonnie]

Sometimes people will make pronouncements with no experience behind it at all. Interesting to hear the experience from your perspective. And I agree with you about the sensationalist media.

I was wondering if you were saying that the problem is not as generally widespread as reported or if you were referring to the Midwest in particular.

Here in the Northwest, meth is a big problem. And I also agree with you that meth is a nasty, nasty drug, unlike anything I've ever seen before.


That said, my experience of meth began when my 15 yo daughter was picked up at the mall by a young man, who turned out to be well over thirty. He introduced her to the drug. She was already acting up and behaving badly and out of my control and the drug... well, for quite awhile I was so naive, I didn't not understand what was going on. None of her behavior made any sense at all. She ended up running off with the guy and when I tried to get the authorities to help me get her back, I was told it probably wouldn't do any good. She'd just run away again.

I'm pretty sure that somehow he had her stripping at clubs in Portland and possibly he was pimping her out too. It was a nightmare.

When it finally got too dangerous for her and she wanted away from him, I took it into my own hands to get her away from him and that made me (and her stepfather and younger sisters) targets of a way whacked out tweaker. I began to get a clue. At one point I was held hostage at knifepoint until my daughter went with him.

Along the way I met a number of law enforcement people I really appreciated and of course there were a couple who were real jerks that were totally dismissive of me. They had a real classist attitude (city police).

The drug addict ended up stalking us and I called 911 so many times I eventually didn't even have to explain the situation to them. They just knew to send the sheriff. The sheriff finally caught the fellow who had enlisted someone else to help him (go hunt turkeys). When arrested, they had walkie talkies, guns and knives. They went away for a long time.

Meth does make people crazy.