Winnecke for Mayor of Evansville – a Meth Epidemic

Winnecke for Mayor of Evansville – A Meth Epidemic – There is a meth epidemic in Evansville, Indiana. Lloyd Winnecke, Republican candidate for Mayor in 2011, has a plan to effectively deal with the dealers of t…

Why We Should Treat, Not Blame Addicts Struggling to Get 'Clean'

Filed under: meth epidemic

Journalist David Sheff's son Nic began using marijuana and alcohol at the age of 12, then heroine and crystal meth. Sheff was baffled …. It's a model based off the successful 1980s campaign to tackle the AIDS epidemic: Silence = Death. Silence …
Read more on PBS NewsHour (blog)

Meth bust in Willis nets drugs, guns

Filed under: meth epidemic

He said much of the meth is likely manufactured by drug cartels south of the border and smuggled into the country through south Texas, much of it eventually ending up in Montgomery County and other parts of the Houston region. "It's an epidemic in the …
Read more on Houston Chronicle

Drug legalization not the answer to current economic problems

Filed under: meth epidemic

Take methamphetamine, for example — the cost of police enforcement would not disappear just because citizens aren't being arrested for possession. Decriminalization … China used a three-pronged method to end the opium epidemic. They created a task …
Read more on Kansas State Collegian