I work in substance abuse and I am curious, whats the drug of choice for your town right now?

I live in Georgia and meth is killing the local areas. From shooking to smoking it!! This drug does not discriminate! All races, all ages and both sexes.

ONE


If its ice-tell what form (meth or cocaine)

Here in Royal Oak, which is close to Detroit- the biggest would probably be pot.
However, heroin and crack are right up there.
Meth is not huge here yet...at least not that I know of

Boy it would be wonderful if all we had to worry about was POT!

Weed & Crack and gosh probably everything here in Cinti Ohio

yea- pot is definitely not the only problem here. It's just that so many people smoke it. I am glad that meth hasn't hit here like it has in other places, even though I am sure it is around. Crack is big, as is heroin.

here in Texas it is mainly ice (meth)

In the past three yrs I think I have had one maybe two people on heroin. Its not that popular and the withdrawals are ssoooo bad. They say heroin is on its way but so far we have been lucky.
ONE

Isn't it wierd how different areas have different drugs?
I don't know much about meth at all, but I know too much about heroin.
I have heard that meth is real tough to get off. Of course, I know that heroin is hell. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

meth is made in a "lab" in your home, in the woods --wherever, its highly explosive.

I contains sudafed and lots of other harmful chemicals. People who are on it really bad (probably 95%) get these horrible sores on their bodies. Usually on their face, arms, legs and or backs.

ONE






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Here are some of the materials that are used for the production of meth:

Coleman stove fuel

Iodine

Denatured alcohol

Hydriodic acid (used in disinfectants)

Hydrogen chloride gas

Lye

Freon

Pseudoephedrine (sinus decongestant)

Ephedrine (found in some diet herbal aids)

Anhydrous ammonia

Red phosphorus (used in fireworks and matchbook strike pads)

Batteries

Coffeepots, glass flasks

Coffee filters

Bed sheets for straining

Rubber gloves

Respirator masks

Styrofoam cooler

Duct tape

http://www.focusas.com/Meth.html





Because methamphetamine can be made with readily available inexpensive materials, there is great variation in the processes and chemicals used. This means that the final product that is sold as "meth" may not be methamphetamine at all, but rather a highly altered chemical mixture with some stimulant-like effects. Uncertainties about the drug's sources and the pharmacological agents used in its production make it especially difficult to determine its toxicity, and resulting consequences and symptoms.



You can eat it, smoke it, shoot it, or snort it! :angry:

in milwaukee i would say pot, and well prolly coke or crack.. not really sure. i know down in waco, meth is literally everywhere. thats what dave got busted on... oh and btw, he DID blow himself up in a meth lab... got burned badly, but lived to see his day in court...

Meth. I live in the meth capitol of the United States., :rolleyes:
I wish all we had to worry about anywhere was pot !!!!!

I use to live in east texas an am recovering from a meth addicton....I have been clean for 20 months ..believe me it is a VERY hard addiction to beat...he town I live in now is a pot and coke town...it is every where

Cocaine definitely!!! I live in Miami so out here everyone seems to imitate Scarface!! The Miami port is a major destination for coke smuggled from South America. We got multihundred-kilogram quanities coming through here so it is no surprise!!!

I found this on a website:

"Multiple tons of powder cocaine are transported to Miami via the Caribbean Corridor primarily by Colombian criminal groups. From Miami, cocaine is transported to markets in the Great Lakes, Northeast/Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast regions including the primary market areas of Atlanta, Chicago, and New York. Transportation of cocaine from Miami to other markets occurs primarily via I-75, which extends from southern Florida north to Michigan, and I-95, which runs from the Atlantic side of southern Florida along the East Coast north to Maine. Interstate 95 connects with large cocaine markets such as Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark, New York, and Boston."

Pot, Crack, Meth, Cocaine, X, Herion...there's alot more that are "popular" here...those are just the "main" ones. :(

Nice to see the War on Drugs is so successful...around here it's prescription painkillers and coke (crack for the poor, powder for the rich) and alcohol. I don't count weed.

Here it's crank (meth) and pot. They also use de-con (rat poison) in it sometimes. My bf was severely addicted to it when we first met. He's been crank-free for 4 years. Even now, when he's really stressed about something, he talks about going and doing it. I personally never have done it, especially after hearing some of the crap they put in it. And speaking of the so called "drug war". What a joke. They had a big drug bust in one of the towns I lived in 5 years ago. It was all small time dealers and people who had only sold something one or two times. All the "big leaguers" weren't even touched.

I don't count weed either. I've got WAY more friends and aquantences in trouble for speed than anything else. Coke and crack are pretty big around here too and heroin is being read about more in the papers lately. I'd have to say though that it's meth. There is tons of farmland around here. I sure hope it doesn't start coming your way Jeni. Personally, I've tried all sorts of drugs and meth was by far the hardest to stop doing.
Jenn

I live in New york City. Mostly everybody smokes weed. It's alot of crack and dope out here.

I have to agree with jameswifey on this. I think coke is the main thing in Miami. I mean everyone smokes pot but I guess no one really makes a big deal of it. Also ecstasy was really big for a while.

Cocaine definitely!!! -Jameswifey

I;m gonn ahave to say crack I use to stay wit a freind of mine and she live right beside a crack shack and its so sad to see all those people going in and out of that house just to get a high

I live in Portland oregon Pot Meth I was a meth user for 13 years now clean for 80 days I'm some coke and crack but I know for a fact it's meth here

I live in Northern NJ and heroin is BIG up here (I know from personal experience). Yea..."everyone" smokes weed...so I don't really consider it THAT bad. But coke is big too...and when the e-pills and acid come around...WATCH OUT! Crack is kinda popular...but not AS much. Meth isn't really a problem up here YET...but heroin wasn't either 5 years ago. When I was doing that sh**...I NEVER pictured that as many people as I knew where doing it...it's really sad. Hugs:p
-Jackie

it is meth here in tennessee. POt has alwasy been around big but Meht has really it hard all over. so much so that in Oak ridge just outside of knoxville, they have started holding people under such high bonds when they get arrested that they can't get out and manufacture it, but they have their day in court and go right back

Around here... Boston and north of the city... oxycontin...

Weed & X

I always thought it was weird that people considered crack a poor man's drug because it definitely isn't cheap...

Around here every drug is a problem.. meth and crack are two huge ones.. but so are oxy's and heroin.. I think it's all a bad problem..

Crack is probably the biggest problem here. And from working in a bar I've learned that its a bigger problem than even the authorities seem to think. They really don't have a clue how bad it really is. I could easily buy it here just about anywhere within a few minutes. Meth is up and coming here pretty quickly. There are a lot of labs but it seems that most of their product is going across the border to the states. Or at least according to customs from both sides. Ive seen three raids here and I've only lived here about a year now. Over all though, crack is a big problem, every corner store sells what they need for pipes and filters, right there on the counter. Pot is pretty much an every day thing for many people here too though I don't consider it something that destroys like Heroin, Crack and Meth.

I would have to say that crystal meth among the adults and maryjane and alcy amongst the kids

im 17, and right now in my school its Crack...In my school, grades 9-12, 99.4% are into drugs...About 3 others and I are the only ones in this town that havent tried weed, crack, or meth. Seriously...

Oh wow i just saw a drug deal at the neighbors just now..Perfect timing..((shrugs))

I have never been experimental in the drug situation..It has never appealed to me whatsoever..I dont understand why it has to be apart of their daily routine..One of my "friends" comments she "HAS" to smoke weed right when she wakes up every morning..You have got to be kidding me..I just dont understand...:(

EVERYTHING!!! I could probably find whatever I wanted within a matter of hour here in Los Angeles, pot (chronic), coke, crack, meth, ectasy, acid, heroin, painkillers all kinds of things. I tried alot of drugs besides crack and heroin and I know that it's easy out here to find whatever I wanted. Thank goodness I never developed any addictions.

Where I am in North Carolina it is DEFINITELY crank (meth). In the area where I was raised, I don't hardly know anyone I grew up with that ISN'T on it. I moved! WHew. And yes, everybody smokes weed, so I would say the next biggest thing would be pills!

I really don't know anything about drugs. I know that alot of people around my area smoke weed like it's cigarettes. I keep hearing about meth. As I read some of the posts this drug (meth) it is a substance that is highly dangerous, addictive and deadly. Reading about it makes me very uneasy. My prayers go out to those who are addicted to any mind altering substance. God Help Us all!

Meth is EVERYWHERE here in Kalamazoo. Since 2003 we have had 60 some meth labs, and thats only the ones that have been busted. I know personally of 3 of them off the top of my head that have been going on for a while and have not yet been raided. It seems to be everywhere you go around here, I don't know what the big deal is beside the fact that it is highly addictive. I know, because I use to be addicted. But I urge people to stay away from it. It doesn't take long to get attatched to. I found myself needing it everyday just to function. It was my source of energy. THANK GOD I got away from that!!!!!!!

Meth and Speed are the same thing. most people around here just call it their "speed". It gives you energy like you wouldn't beleive.

From what I read in the newspapers, Meth is the biggest problem here in Western Kentucky, however, pot is right there behind it. We have so many rural, farming areas and the ingredients are so easily obtainable.

Alot of the stores, both department, drug stores and discount stores, have the sudafed locked up and you have to ask for it. If you are buying a large quantity, they alert the police and before you can ever pull out of the parking lot, the police are there to check you out.

What amazes me is I have heard of these ingredients and although I am not a drug user, I cannot imagine anyone wanting to ingest these ingredients in their body just to get that "high" they report.

It is all so very sad. I personally do not see an end to it. Not in my lifetime anyway.

I live in a county and work in a place where daily I see many people loose everything they have and could have ever had for METH. Four letters that will tear a family apart leaving loved ones not knowing what or how to help. However prior to going to old folsom my brother was 5 months clean, prison was the last thing he had to do to fix the mess he got him self into.... If you never try it youll never have to worry!!!!

You're so right Krissie. My ex got into it bad! And I found myself falling down in the same trap. You feel so good for like 12 hours and then the coming down feeling is HORRIBLE!!! So you do more. Day and night aren't separate anymore and you lose touch with reality. Here I think we had like 40-some busts. The guy my ex used to sale for got busted last week with $33,000 worth. (I secretly smiled to myself with joy) And recently, there have been a lot of suicide deaths popping up and the reason behind it all has been METH.

Meth By Far Is The Worst In Here In Cali.

I live in San Diego, California.... and sadly the "most popular" or I should say most used drug here in my city is heroin..... NASTY A$$ HEROIN!!!! :blah: :mad: :angry: SAD but true...... very sad but very true!!!! I HATE HEROIN!!!!!!!!!! :mad: :( :blah: :angry: second runner up is meth..... then coke, then pot, well, I don't actually consider pot to even be a drug!!!!! :p ;) :D Then again most people here in Cali just DON'T consider pot harmful at all, that's laid back Cali for you!!!! Man, that's what keeps me here... gotsta be the green!!!!! :D :p ;) :thumbsup:

Weed, Heroin, Cocaine And Ecstacy.

Meth is pretty bad here. In IL and IA. Though different areas, have different ways of making it. It depends what is available. Here, they do it with the anhydrous and lithium. I know when I lived i Las Vegas, it was really bad there too, and a lot stronger. They didn't use anhydrous, it was red phos.

you name it, we have it.......... :blah: Weed, Heroin, Coke, Crack, Pills, Wet

I thought meth was somewhat different from speed? they used to put speed in diet pills in the 60's! I remember taking some free samples my mother got and being up all night, and pretty much the next day, and then crashing, being really depressed. and so that was it for me!

Meth, meth and more meth here. Especially upstate in the woods, in the small towns. Pot of course, but the main problem here is meth. My hubby's doing time for manufacturing :( There were labs EVERYWHERE back home.....they don't have the capability of busting all of them. Seemed like when one lab got taken down, 6 more cropped up.

I'm going on 4 years clean from the stuff.

It's pretty ethnic here whites=crank afroamericans=crack hispanics=herion course then my son could give you a list of "teens = designer drugs" that would make your head spin.(no pun intended)

CET, Meth IS speed just home brewed

Here in Kansas, it's METH,METH,METH! Our prisons and treatment facilities are overloaded! My husband is in for manufacturing.

i live in the bay area and there is so much that one can get there hands on. WeEd, cRaCk, MeTh (by the way in just in the neighboring county they dont sell sudafed bc there is a big meth epicdemic there) HoP/HeRoInE, PoWdeR/CoKe, X. {there are so many youngstaz out there ThIZzInG (on X) there are dances and songs about it.} & Rx (V's), 'Shrooms.... you name it the bay has it. and Coke is the new weed. it is really common to see someone tooting!

Our poor town is being over run by meth. Its mostly the rich kids who have money to spend and now there all cracked out.....Its sad.

I live in san Diego Ca, I will have to say meth and pot

Practically everyone smokes pot where I am from. But meth is a HUGE problem where I am from. There are dozens and dozens of meth cooks in this area. The meth problem here is out of control.

Marijuana
Ecstasy
Crank

In this little town I moved to it's definitely pot(personally, I think it should be legalized), but meth is HUGE. The one county here has been in every national paper across the country.

In the city where I lived, crack is it with pot running a close second. Heroin but that is for a few that choose to do it. It's not readily available unless your on the inside track(so to speak, no pun intended(I've dealt with it so I know the gory story).

Here in Colorado pot is definately the most consumed drug of choice. Boulder is the epicenter of kind bud. Anytime a small city like Boulder has 10 or so indoor grow stores in it, you know kind is king. It seems that everybody here smokes it. The largest "problem" drug here seems to be meth though. According to the Colorado Springs Police Departments website, they take down between 200-250 meth labs yearly. In fact last night it was on the local news that they took a ring of something like 18 large scale producers and distributors. That should slow down the meth trade for about a month. Coming in third is cocaine. The drug war is just insane. As long as the money is there it will never end. Too many people make money off of it. Lawyers, judges, private prison institutions, and politicians get rich while society loses.

Here in central Iowa it's definitely meth. I've been in the game and it is hard to get out of. I've been clean almost two months. And it's a daily struggle. I talked to the nurse at my doctor's office when I had a Hepatitis and HIV test (I'm clean, thank goodness) and she told me that 9 out of 10 18 to 24 year olds that get tested in that office for Hepatitis come back positive. Most have openly admitted it was probably from banging meth with shared needles. That's scary!!!!

I definitely agree with nstoner. Iowa is one of the worst in the nation for meth. We have had MAJOR drug busts here. Because the I-80 runs through the state, we have also had some major busts on the interstate.

We have at least one major drug task force here in my city. Several weeks ago there was a big drug bust by them at a local motel. There were 19 law enforcement officers at the scene. They were attempting to buy (I believe) something like 10 pounds of it from a couple of guys. The bust went bad. The drug dealers had guns. There was a huge shootout. The dealers and 3 cops (including the one who busted my son - who was sentenced 3 weeks ago to 25 years in prison) were shot. They all survived, but the one dealer is in our county's jail right now with 10 attempted murder charges against him, in addition to the meth charges. His bond is something like $6 million.

My son would never have gotten involved with meth in the first place if he hadn't been put on probation several years ago. He was a pot user. It stayed in his system too long, so he turned to meth. Although I don't condone drugs, they SHOULD legalize pot.

They are now having to lock up Enfamil in our local stores because it is now being used to cut meth.

crack
brown (heroin)
skunk (weed)

I live in Greenwich, London. It is overrun with drugs, especially on the two estates near my house. :( You wouldnt know it if you were an outsider though.

meth is huge here in Nebraska. i just moved from Fremont, NE where i lost a lot of my life to a drug problem and moved about 45 minutes away to Lincoln. I now have 18months clean and i know meth is still big in Lincoln i'm just not looking for it!!

weed then crack then acid

actually let me rephrase that, alcohol then weed then crack then acid for we sometimes forget alcohol is a drug as well.

Here in Houston, almost everything is popular. Right now the major things would be pot, meth, crack, powder, hydrocodone, codine, and PCP.

In North Carolina, its definitely meth, crack, oxycontin, ecstacy, and marijuana has been here for years and years......The meth problem has rapidly grown here...and the others are gaining...........

i live about 25 miles outside of pittsburgh in a little hick town, and they are all bout heroin!!! they're very stupid about it too. eveyone is into phetynol, but what they all don't know is that phetynol is synthetic heroin, and if its mixes wrong, you will die instantly. then they move on to heroin anyway. (i am 18, thats why i know all that stuff!) pot would be an improvement out here.
oh and the kids who have more money are all about coke and ecstacy.

Here in Terre Haute, it is defnately Meth
Susan

In my area its Meth every time you turn around the police are shutting down a lab! #2 is POT

I think Meth is getting to be a popular drug every where.....

Meth, crack, cocaine Its everywhere anymore> can't get away from it,anywhere you would move to, it is there

I am from the Boston area - around here, its all about oxycontin (especially the youth). I myself got into alot of trouble due to oxycontin. I was addicted for 3yrs and I will have a year of sobriety next week.

I really believe its all about age, ethnicity, etc. I've been through treatment facilities, rehabs, etc, and a majority of the people ive met are opiate dependant.

Also, crack is a big problem for many older peeps in the inner city. My uncles have been addicted to crack for as many years as I can remember back. Its a terrible thing to see, its one of the reasons why I stay sober today. I dont want to put my family through what my uncles put them through, at the age of 56 they still smoke crack daily, its just a shame, no one should have to live like that.

im in south carolina (charleston) and meth is whats poppin over here, they are busting meth labs like every other week. it's so sad.

Here in Edinburgh, Indiana I think meth and pills are most popular here..and of course pot but isnt that popular everywhere?..lol

I'm in north Texas and meth is very big here.

I was born in Boulder, CO- Pot was the biggest now other things are slowly leeking in such a cocaine (huge) Meth (a little). But it is a college town, very rich area. I grew up in Nederland very very small hippie town- So Pot for sure. Now I live about 45 miles from there in the city where Meth is huge!! EEWW, all my friends are dabbling in it and I hate it. Cocaine has always been big no matter where I go, and it seems more abundant the older I get. I have never seen heroin or even known anyone who has used it. That probably stays in the big citys like Denver, or maybe I'm just in the dark about it (thank god).

I personally have been addicted to the following: cocaine (powder) pills, oxy's lorcets, vicodins, etc, crack, heroin, methadone (to get off of heroin), crack mixed with heroin, etc.... alcohol (that latest). I'm not using anymore. But it's everywhere. It doesn't matter where you are from, if you are looking, it's there.

Mar : Tojo

Small town Henderson, Ky. the #1 drug is METH by a landslide!! I am a former dealer and ex-con and I guarantee that there is nothing that comes close!

To my knowledge, Weed is #1 around here.
Angel Dust and Coke are favorites too :angry: They both should STAY BANNED!! These drugs are ruining the 20 something year olds that I grew up with.

Without a doubt, it's METH here in the PNWest. If you're in the field, you know our stats. It is THE DEVIL'S DRUG. I say that, and I'm not even remotely religious.

ok// so it is a given.. there is definitely a "meth" problem.
I live in a place notorious for pot growing, and heroin use is abundant, but it's the tweekers that are the real problem

being a recovered SPEED addict... I am wondering what the hell the attaction to this "meth crap" is.. as it sure isnt what I was doing 20 years ago.. it doesnt even come close.

You would think the DEA would be having serious "field days" everywhere... but I have yet to see any serious "meth busts" in the media...
they are still whining about the pot growers... and as far as I can tell, very few people nut up behind blowin a little reefer....

if they arent going to go after the real problem, why not admit to contributing to the problem.

I REALLY REALLY hate the tweeker problem.

West Texas--METH!!!! My son was addicted to it until he was busted for a gun, now in Jail waiting for sentence.

MAM
Mothers Against Meth

West Texas--METH!!!! My son was addicted to it until he was busted for a gun, now in Jail waiting for sentence.

MAM
Mothers Against Meth

I didn't know there was an organization such as Mothers Against Meth. Thanks for sharing.

In Northeast MS the drug of choice is crystal meth. I have had very close experiences with this drug. Not only has my direct family suffered from this addiction, but many, many close friends.

I'm also a former user of meth/coke/crack/herion/pills..you get the idea...but around here in ohio meth is the drug you can get walking down the road we have so many busts here in Summit County where I live. The jails are full of meth dealers/cooks/tweekers..they get right back out and use again...everyone in my family is a recovering meth addict even my little sister and thats sad to say. I wish that this s**t would just go away.

I live in Oklahoma City area and Meth is over running this place.

Crack and Heroin, not a whole lot of meth, yet.

Crack, but for the younger Generation and a few old timers it's all about the Opiates/opiods. Tabs, Cets, and of coarse the Big OC are taking over here.
........ o======o Don't sniff OC, you will feel so good and relaxed and you will diligintly grind down the pill with a house clamp, and sniff a toot, or two.

Hey it's like they say meth is the new crack or 'crack for crackers' as some like to call it! I ran into it in Cali 15 yrs ago and it is slowly makeing it's way across the country. The south is ate up with it, mostly because we are rural and we can cook it out in the barn! Our more urban brothers have a harder time hideing a lab! The truth is that meth just may be the worst thing our country has ever faced in the dope fight. We have introduced a substance into the population that we can make ourselves. It doesn't even have to be imported like coke. Lord help us when the rednecks are in control of the dope! Though it hasn't really gotten popular in the NE yet, it gets a little closer each year. As a recovering addict I'll tell ya, we got a problem. It's only a matter of time.

ok// so it is a given.. there is definitely a "meth" problem.
I live in a place notorious for pot growing, and heroin use is abundant, but it's the tweekers that are the real problem

being a recovered SPEED addict... I am wondering what the hell the attaction to this "meth crap" is.. as it sure isnt what I was doing 20 years ago.. it doesnt even come close.

You would think the DEA would be having serious "field days" everywhere... but I have yet to see any serious "meth busts" in the media...
they are still whining about the pot growers... and as far as I can tell, very few people nut up behind blowin a little reefer....

if they arent going to go after the real problem, why not admit to contributing to the problem.

I REALLY REALLY hate the tweeker problem.


I was reading somewhere that Meth is not considered an epidemic yet because it has not yet reached the east coast. Therefore it is not getting epidemic attention. Here in LA it has just in the past year gotten to the point that the law is haveing to handle up an the situation!

pot is a really big one around here (madison, wi), but i dont consider pot a drug. other then that coke and crack are the next big ones...tied with x.

Pot, Crack, Meth, Cocaine, X, Herion...there's alot more that are "popular" here...those are just the "main" ones. :(

Same over here in Hawaii, but I'll also add prescription painkillers to the mix as well. X is big amongst the younger set but ICE is a biggie!

In Edmonton, Alberta Canada we have major issues with Meth and Crack. I too have worked in the Addictions field and what I have noticed is Crack was high up there until meth hit the scenes and is not dominating the Addicts. Sigh... what a life. Its hard because recently just found my cousin is prostituting herself for Crack....

I live in Benton Harbor, MI and here it's defenitely crack and meth..quite a few meth labs shut down around here too..

I live in Knox county in Vincennes Indiana and i would have to DEFINAtely say it is METH abotu 2 to 3 meth lab busts a WEEK here and they cant seem to find a way to stop it they bust one and someone else takes over .....

Hitler said, "America, we will get you through your youth".......well, apparentely somebody is, because it's true.....what happened to the war on drugs? We've not come close to winning whatever that was about, as more and more drugs are taking are youth down, and the drugs keep getting stronger, ie. Meth, etc. etc., we are losing our future generations to these drugs....I think it's all been some sort of plot for this to have happened.

That evil METH. Because it is cheap and can be easily made. Second still crack.

Here in north Georgia meth is destroying everything it touches(google operation reclaim for my story) noone even remembers any other drugs because the meth has taken over totally

hmm.. I'm in Tulsa and here it's pretty much Meth, Pot, Pills (xanex, valium) and X....

METH is KING in Missouri. It's everywhere you look. I swear, they could film Night of the Living Dead in my town!!!! Half the town walks around looking like this.....:eek: !LOL

wow, more like what isnt popular. I'd have to say weed, but yea to me thats not so much a drug.. heroin, coke are big
Here at school Charleston, Il.. there is a meth problem. Its the number 1 meth producer...

I am from McAlester, OKlahoma and am living in Dallas Texas now. Oklahoma is a big meth factory. Check out the charges for most inmates in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections most are drug charges and then of course Oklahoma has a pot problem. Texas has all the drugs you just have to go to the right corner!

Malisia

in my oninion in here in south houston anything and everything. id say the most popular is weed the pills, then meth then x.

Hi 1dayatatime,I live in a very small town outside of Columbia,SC,it is called Pelion.I guess there is about 6 to 8 thousand people here now.When I moved here there were only about 3 thousand.We have had Meth Labs, after Meth Labs getting busted around here.There making it in the barns,in trailers,in sheds in there homes.I have lived out here for over 20 yrs.and never even new about it.
I worry about my teen-age grandaughter and her friends.You can preach and preach and just hope they are listening.I am 57 years old and never heard of so much drugs going on as this Meth.

Rural West Virginia, Crystal Meth.

In TN its meth my husband is serving a 14 year sentence for manufacturing.My 4 month old son died and I am constantly battling it my self...I have been doing better and staying clean, it really is hard to kick I lost everything to this evil drug.

Good for you for trying, and I know that it is such a sucker of life. As in sucking all of life out of everything. I posted a reply in the addiction forum and any I am very willing to try to find any help in your area for you. Please feel free to pm us here or in the addiction forum and we will see what we can find for you if you dont already have that information. I was wondering if you have considered rehab ?

In the rural parts of alabama its meth...in the cities its extasy, coke and pain pills

Here in Philly it really depends on what neighborhood your in...
Personally most of the people I know have problems with presciption pills (percocets, oxycotins, xanax etc) That would be like an everyday drug for them, on the weekends they party a little harder spending hundreds on coke. A few years back I would say maybe 6 out of ten people I knew were either dead or in jail over heroin. When I was in high school (around 1995) those same people came in to school (catholic high school) on a regular basis trippin on acid....
It just has developed into different things as these people got older...and some them the only end to was death.....
So sad.......

We have a really big crank problem here (is that the same as meth?) For those of you that don't know this, Oregon passed a law where you have to show a picture ID to buy cold medicines like pseudofed, because of the crank problem here. I guess there's also a law that's passed and is coming up in the next few years, that you have to have a prescription to buy ANY cold medicine with a certain ingrediant in it.
I know there's a problem here with slammers, but I think the majority snorts it. The local HIV center gives out free syringes for the slammers, which I'm not sure if I agree with or not.
Ok...that's my hometown's drug problem in a nutshell!

Christy

Crank/meth same thing here in Alabama and that smle law passed here. You have to show you ID anytime you buy a cold medicince containing psudoephdrine.

Wow meth is big.... well here in rochester ny crack and herion are the drugs bring down everyone unfortunatly

ok so here in southwest florida, it depends on the crowd your in, meth is VERY big(since polk isnt so far away-thats like the biggest methlab all in one), but then you got so many into coke, heroin, crack, name it, we've seen it.

I am a recovering meth addict and here in central illinois METH is the most popular drug it is a growing empidemic around here along with alot of the other places in the united states.....It is growing rapid and is going to get to the younger kids if we don't try to do something about it as a group....

I would have to say cocaine is the biggest right now. And people around here used to say cocaine was for white people. But surprising more black guys are doing it around here now. And alot of young people at that. Its an expensive drug so mostly drug dealers or weathly people do it. A gram for $40 and u stay high for manybe 30 mins..stupid if u ask me. And weed is big too, but thats probably every where.

I would have to say Meth. It's what my baby is in prison for. You can get other drugs but it seems like every other house has some or you can get some there.

Meth! Absolutely! Little bum central Minnesota... Meth is EVERYWHERE. Tearing people up left and right!!

For starters I don't consider marijuana a serious drug. Do I believe it to be a gateway starter to other drugs? Absolutely. Should it be legalized, no way. But the jail time that comes along with it is rediculous to say the least so I think it should be rescheduled on the drug list.

To answer the question:

Around here in Ohio as for basically everwhere pot is the most used..

Right now meth, coke/crack are rampant and ruining lives everywhere.

A really bad thing that's abused and not very many people have mentioned is prescription painkillers. Oxycontin, hydrocodone/vicodin/lortab, percocets/percodans, ultrams, darvocets. Even anti-anxiety drugs such as xanex/valiums can lead to some serious side effects like nervous system disorders and motor skills dysfunction. So lock up those pills people! Don't have somebody you don't really know over, leave your script in the med cabinet and expect them to be there later. A lot of high school aged kids are abusing these big time which may lead to addiction as well as the average joe and lil old grandmas. (not intentionally for the latter) These are being crushed and snorted. (usually not vics or xanex) Oxy's are now being mixed with plastic beads so when they're snorted it burns like fire and they can't be cooked down to be injected, but they either pop them, take the burn, or pick out the beads.

Did we forget about LSD (acid) or ecstacy (E)? Still a favorite even from back in the day. These can sometimes be a little harder to find, and not so much addictive (unless the E is cut with something which can lead to other addictions). They usually go through a town in large spurts but I know a lot of people that have frequently used them on and off. I don't have to explain the craziness that can result from usage.

Heroin isn't as big as people think it is. I think the stories have made people afraid of banging it. (like getting aids or afraid of needles). Most people that have used it, snort it until that doesn't work anymore. It's at an all time low for cost and is prevalent, but people are afraid of it.

I'm not a drug user, but I know A LOT of people that are.

The local HIV center gives out free syringes for the slammers, which I'm not sure if I agree with or not.


I now volunteer at a free come and go drug abuse center. When I was a slammer/banger/junkie, the needle exchange program was the only thing that kept me from using a dull needle (bad!) or from sharing and getting aids/hepatitis. If you're a junkie you're going to shoot up regardless, so instead of spreading aids to more people or having them kill themselves with a dull needle, it's best to give them new ones. You can only have new ones if you exchange your old, used ones. This keeps infected needles from just being thrown into an alley or a garbage bag. Because of programs like these, I have never shared a needle with anyone hence I don't have a disease, which now that I'm clean I can lead a normal life. It has nothing to do with low socio economic lifestyles either. If I don't tell people that I've been a user, they would never ever know it. (I used to do it between my toes, the back of my knees and inner thighs so no one would notice the marks easily) You can't always spot an ex-junkie, and they could be anyones prior gf b4 you got with them. Education is the key to saving people from being diseased. This compassion is saving lives. :thumbsup:

I would have thought it was Meth since it's the only drug you hear about on the new or in the paper. My b/f has a Meth addiction as well.

However from hearing people share at my Nar-Anon meetings and at the open NA meetings I have attended it is by far and away Crack that is the biggest problem.

I don't have a clue. I don't hang with that crowd.

Here is some information about your state regarding which drugs are a problem there if you are interested. http://www.dea.gov/pubs/states/northcarolina.html
I dont think all the posters actually 'hang' with a drug crowd. But perhaps they have friends or relatives or even neighbours that have been effected. You can be effected by the drugs in your community in many ways and has nothing to do with 'hanging with a crowd'. Some areas have sudden increases in house breakins as a result of an increase of meth users in the area for example. Also if you live in a 'nice' neighbourhood, dont be followed into thinking it is a drug free community. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a drug free community in America now, not even in prisons, not even in the nicest neighbourhoods. Even the rich are possible victims of drugs, whether they become users or are victims of users, everyone is effected these days and knowing what is going on in your envirorment, especially if you have children is important these days.

I live in a very small town and you'd be amazed at how bad the drug problem is here. The drug of preferance here is Ice which is a form of meth. I have lost many friends and family to the drug. Both my sisters and my husband are recovering addicts. I myself was never interested in drugs. Never tried them and have no intentions.

Here is it Heroin. We even call it Hill Billy Heroin. There is a strong push in the local area and it is catching and getting most teenagers. It is nuts...

Meth around here is a killer...im in recovery and have been for almost a year....its so powerful...something to for real stay away from

Unfortunately the most popular drug is meth. in my town marijuana runs a close second.

LI`L SIS

In Hanoi where I'm living now the biggest problem is heroin. It's not uncommon to see syringes laying around roads, and there are propaganda posters all over about the 'evils of drug use'.
There's also tons of pot in Vietnam... though like many, I don't totally consider marijuana a drug.

Back home in Toronto, crack is a big, big problem. I'm scared of meth!

Here the main problems are meth and crack. In some aparts of town are wrose then the others of course but this town is starting to have a big drug problem and no body doesn't seem to want to see it. Herion has not hit here yet but it is just a matter of time before somebody starts bring it donw here and make thing even wrost. There seems to also be a lot of weed but I don't count that one.

Here in Houston its a toss up! Crack, Cocaine, Pot, Meth and Heroin!

My personal opinion being a former addict myself, right now its crack or meth!

I would have to say that the worst thing here is crack, its an epidemic, I lived in crack-town Ontario (Oshawa) for years. I don't really count weed though because I don't think of weed as being that bad, maybe thats wrong?

Here it is prescription meds that are stolen from good people. Zanax, oxycontin are among the ones I am hearing about and have had stolen from me, also klonopin.

meth

Alot of people sell their RX meds for money half the time for illegal drugs

Well in Kansas right now I'd say it's probably Ice (meth).. It's getting harder for the meth cooks to do meth but they still manage to make the stuff... The group we use to run with got busted last month with a big lab and they are all doin fed time now...

Kansas still has a pot problem but i'd say its mostly on the meth and ice now...

Well, I must admit, I have never been around meth much at all. I know my Wife has used it in the past. It was quite obvious to me because of her dental problems. As a matter of fact, she is going to have all of her lower teeth removed by the grand and glorious Indiana Correctional facility she is at. The only good thing is they are going to give her a lower plate, that will save us some money. I only saw her on meth once, and I actually had to restrain her in the bed, she was going totally nuts. What a horrible site.

In answer to the posed question, Meth is a big drug here in Southwestern Indiana. But I do believe it is shadowed by Crack Cocain around here. And that was my Wife's drug of choice. My Wife had the classic signs of use. Some months back when I was able to bond her out of jail, she came home looking healthy, well actually, she was fantastic looking. She had gained weight and was just beautiful... I know that is hard to believe since she had just gotten out of jail, but it is true. After being out for a few months I started to notice a rapid wieght loss again and her face started to break out.... pimples! I knew then that she was back on that crap. Well anyway, I think Crack is the big thing around here.

JR

Well I live in Effingham County, Georgia; also known as Meth-in-ham County

Minnesota has been hit hard with Meth. Thats our #1.

I work in a drug and alcohol rehab, and what i see most from the people in this area is Herion, Cocaine, and Rx. meds.

I was born and raised in Florida... and didn't even know what "meth" was until I came to arizona... And that wasn't to long ago.... *coughs* and I'm approaching 30 next month.... Meth seems to be the huge drug of choice here... back in florida it was perscription meds mostly & ecstasy.

The drug of choice here in my little town would definately have to be rx meds. All of my friends got addicted fast and are now doin time for b&e's or home invasions to get the drug. There aren't any real hard core drugs around here all the time.

Wow seems Meth is more widespread then I knew, here any illegal drug is big now due to any drug being wanted for the addicts!

I am from Australia and here the most popular drug is easily pot, but, its so harmless I will disregard it as a drug. Most pop. substances are x and meth. As far as x goes I have not really seen it cause too many problems. But I know a bit about the meth scene here in Oz. Its horrible scene. Mainly due to the people involved more so than the substance itself. Its run by bikers, which pretty much puts all people that want to experiment with drugs into their zone of politics and honestly their politics suck.

The other main problem with it is that the smaller dealers, the wanna be big time pri*ks mostly start dealing becoz they cant afford the habit themselves. So they get reletively pure stuff, and then cut the hell out of it,and sell it to other people. The cut is more dangerous than the drug in a pure form.

In a losing battle, I feel the same way about meth as I do about all drugs.

Legalization and let the pharmicutical company's earn the dollars.

The substance will be a safe, tested, quantitive regulated and will be much safer to the people that want to experiment or use.

People are the biggest problem in any situation including the war on drugs. You take the control away from scumbag lowlives that dont care about anything apart from themselves and how bad they want to feel and be seen as by the rest of society you have a safer society to live in.

My oppinion on this is very contraversal and I understand alot of people will not agree with where I am coming from. This I do understand.

The most prevelant drugs in Pocomoke, MD are crack and weed. Crack is destroying lives everyday in every way.

Meth is our problem here in Lewis county Washington

I live in Antelope Valley, some call it the meth capitol of the U.S. Crystal meth is very bad here everywhere you look you see the signs on the majority of the people that live here. But also, just as Csmcgrl said, everything you could want is here in SoCal.

Here in NC, I would have to say crack. Horrible stuff, it destroys lives.

I'm in iowa and the BIG drug here is METH. it is the worst drug in my opinion. and the hardest to get off. i've been clean since nov 2004. with no relapses. that is really hard to do. 80% of addicts relapse.

prob cocaine in any form cuz of the scarface movie, which i think keeps the meth factor out of miami.. ( i never see anyone on it or pushing it) and weed is everywhere...

Crack, Meth and X.

seems the #1 most sought after drug im my area is oxycontin. followed by coke/heroin second. no meth around here but it's commin i'm sure. actually surprised it's taken so long to happen. :no:

In NA, Mississippi the popular drug is Marijuana. Cocaine is coming up FAST. Crystal Meth is around but not as much so as weed and coke it's coming up fast too though. I don't think Heroin is even around here. If it is, no one really knows about it. It's a Small town, EVERYONE knows EVERYTHING:rolleyes:. Prescription drugs aren't really spoke of...except for maybe Loratabs (did i spell it right?). I really don't think X is around here either. I've heard ppl from here going to Memphis to party and it be around but as for this small town, nah. But yes, weed and coke are on top.

I live in a "tourist friendly" area so alcohol is the drug of choice. Because there are a lot of wealthy people who visit this area, I would guess that cocaine is #1 but there is a lot of everything around here. I hate that we moved here and raised our children here. ......but my son would have been an alcoholic no matter where we lived!!!

Boy, I am really feeling out of the loop here I have no idea.

Meth is in my town.

CRACK from the young to the old, darn near everyone seems 2 be or has been cracked out.
It has ripped thru Cincinnati like a forest fire.

I hate drugs!:angry:

littlemama
"I'm Just A Prisoner Of Hope"

Boy, I am really feeling out of the loop here I have no idea.

Hey, Bookie. I thought the same thing until I started thinking. Remember all the crimes in Seymour and the surrounding rural area in Southern Indiana? Meth is destoying lives and families. Many ministers of all faiths have traveled to the many courthouses to pray for the communities. Southern Indiana just signed a deal for a Japanese car maker to build a huge Plant...many people will have jobs. Praise God!

One day, the second graders were asked to draw a picture of their houses and to write a story about it. One child drew a picture of a tent. The teacher was sure he had misunderstood the assignment and told him again. After investigating, the school found out that his family did live in a tent. His parents were both meth users.
Meth is a serious problem in my state.

.. One day, the second graders were asked to draw a picture of their houses and to write a story about it. One child drew a picture of a tent. The teacher was sure he had misunderstood the assignment and told him again. After investigating, the school found out that his family did live in a tent. His parents were both meth users.

David'smom, the above quote that you made in your previous post is heartbreaking beyond words. I am thankful to have never been involved personally with anyone dealing with Meth addiction, however I know many people out there have. From afar I have seen what it can do to someone and how it ruins lives. It is so sad to hear stories like what happened to that young boy.

In New Zealand however, it seemed as though we were starting to have a 'P' academic (Crystal methamphetamine). Thankfully most of that seems to have died down now. Over here we never hear of heroin, cocaine, etc. thankfully. Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug in NZ (next to alcohol and tobacco). Even though it is still considered an illegal Class C drug in NZ.

On the 15th of June 2006 a bill went before Parliament aiming to make it legal to use cannabis for medicinal purposes. If this bill succeeds, it will allow people to be registered as users of cannabis for medical purposes; doctors will be allowed to prescribe patients cannabis whenever they feel it is necessary. It goes without saying that this is absolute ludicrous and I for one hope it does not get passed!

- Ben.

Where I live in North central TX Meth is the drug of choice. Even the small towns where two of my children live is plagued by this.

here in winnipeg, manitoba - canada. it's CRACK and METH..and then of course there is chron, X n all the other shit. crack here is like water to the body for these fieners. i live straight in the ghetto so i see it everyday. hustlers roam the streets and homes of the streets here like u wouldn't believe. that shit kills. and it will keep on killing. as long as money makes the world go round, it will keep on killin'. its all about power. my older brother died from crack and meth 6 months ago. its just a messed up life. too bad our children have to see it. im tryin to move outta here so my baby girl dont have to see it no more. so i try to send her to her dads more often than she's suppoed to go. just so she's away from all this. anyways yea..thats all i gotta say about that. peace xxx SF

Crack Cocaine, Heroine, RX Drugs

I live close to Houston Texas and down here it is Weed, X, Xanax, Cocaine, Drank for the young people.
For the older people it is Crack, Cocaine, Painkillers.
Meth is here but I don't think many people do it.

Meth rules this town.

I live in Salinas, CA. I don't know if any of you have heard of it, but, it's had it's 15 minutes of fame.

This town is known for dope, for the most part. The most popular things around here seem to be crack, coke, X (and other pills similiar to that), weed, any type of painkillers, heroine, and the list goes on for days....

Ice (Meth) - is by far the most popular though. It's everywhere, and everyone is doing it. Once you enter the world of meth, everyone knows everyone, it's like a little community. (if that makes any sense) Trust me, I speak from experience.

Let me ask my next door neighbors, LOL. It's definately meth and I want to slit my throat when I have to talk to my neighbors because the tweaking is so bad. Sad thing about it is that they have 5 children in the house and traffic 24/7. He's disabled due to his back, but I've seen the man in action and she doesn't work, so it's a full time job keeping up with the cars and people going in and out all day and night. So sad.:(

Here in Dayton, OH its definately crack. I have seen so many lives ruined by this drug on a personal level. Then it would be coke and RX drugs, then weed, if that even really counts.

Meth is the number one here and then any kind of pills where im at up in the mtns of North Carolina. There is meth busts here ALOT...a least weekly.....and then of course pot but that is beginning to not be looked at so badly because most around here wished that is all we had to worry about now that all these harder drugs have invaded us. I have personal experience with meth and it is horrible....i really believe it is the most evil thing in the states right now. Pot on the other hand in my opinion isnt that big of a deal...it doesnt kill anyone or hurt anyone. That should be the only legalized drug.

i would have to say pot and ice that seems to be is in our town

In Central Texas where I live it is meth and pot but a lot more meth.

queens New York, any form of cocaine manly crack .

Where I live on Long Island it's Pot & Cocaine.. At least that's what I was told by people I worked with. I think really in NY prescription pills are a big thing people abuse right now. I've heard of more kids strung out on them than anything else.

Meth, It is really bad down here in Texas.

Hi here in Lexington Ky its definatly Pain Pills! Its so bad here and I went through the forum and couldnt really find anything on it! Crack is also pretty bad in some parts of town! But pain pills are EVERYWERE! Trust me I know Ive been clean for 5 1/2 months know!!

I'm in Iowa and although there has been some success stopping the sale of some precursors......it hasn't stopped the flow.

Here in St.Louis, it cocaine, powder or rock, and heroin

Hi everyone,
Around my area, there is everthing from what I hear. My son is a heron addict and 5 of his friends have overdosed and died in the last couple of months. I seems the only way my son gets off of heron is when he goes to prison. I think that it is bad around here and I am 60 yrs old.
Never heard of all these drugs when I was a kid. God help us all!

In Mesa, it is meth. People call it tweakerville. I hate the evil shit.

In Broward County Fla It Has To Be Weed And Cocaine, Then Would Be The Pills And All. Not That Much Crack And Heroin Around Here

Where I live outside of Nashville it's heroin, oxycontin, crack and coke. Opiates have taken over like an epidemic where I live. I'm been clean from oxycontin and methadone for about 18 months.

here in upstate ny the most popular drugs are weed and coke. mainly weed is the drug of choice. either you are selling it or smoking it or both!!

well i live in westchester county in new york and the most popular drugs here are dope( heroin) angel dust, weed and coke and some ppl prefer crack.

Being that I live In Sin City....... You could probably find ANYTHING you wanted here if you looked for it. But I would have to say the top 2 drugs here are Crack and meth... for sure.

am in dallas its were you are south dallas crack east dallas cocain and that black ((herion))
west dallas meth north dallas all of the above
i ve been clean for 15 months!

Well,I'm happy to say,That I am clean off mosr drugs,and I just got over the crack addiction,and right now I am having a hard time with the methadone,and I am even working on that now. I am on a low mg now,and I am still tapering.
I have moved to a new town to get away from the crack,and that was plentyfull where I came from(Little river SC)
Now that I have moved,I have no idea what is available here(for over 2 years now),and don;t care to. YEAH!!!!
Hi everyone!

I have just stopped smoking marijuana (weed)! 21 days clean and yes it is a real drug and a struggle to stay right, but God is good. This is the 2nd time I have stopped smoking so I pray that i can stay the path this time.

I am not originally from Buffalo but from what I can tell, crack and weed are pretty highly sought.

In NYC where I am from...everything from weed, to E to crack, coke, meth and everything in the middle- They don't call it the city that nevers sleeps for no reason!

I live in a town between Birminham,Al and Huntsville,Al.and the drug of destruction here is definately crank,they make it all over the county,and it has destroyed the youth of this town,i will never understand how anybody could put those explosive chemicals in their body,it is sickening.

Around here its usually pot or meth.... Iowa is a big meth state.

Well I moved here to help me get off crack,but I been hearing my neighbors saying they are on pain pilss,so Im going to say opiates.
I'm 2 years clean off illicit drugs and booze. Wooooo

Back in NJ in the small town where my business was located, the drug of choice was mostly crack. It semed that almost everyone was smoking it! The 2nd runner up was percocets. The whole thing makes me sick!

Wow Thats A Hard One. There Are Several.
Ice
Crack
Pot
Pain Pills (tabs)
And Ofcourse Nerve Pills,& Muscle Relaxers.

I live in a small town in Oregon. I would have to say that weed is the number one drug of choice for people here, but meth has also become an epidemic of huge proportion here. I have seen it ruin many lives around here, people losing their houses, kids, jobs, their whole life. It's a pretty sad thing to see.

I live in a small town in Oregon. I would have to say that weed is the number one drug of choice for people here, but meth has also become an epidemic of huge proportion here. I have seen it ruin many lives around here, people losing their houses, kids, jobs, their whole life. It's a pretty sad thing to see.

Same here. I've seen people lose everything. Homes, cars, jobs, kids and their lives. It's horrible, but nothing stops them but death! It's so sad.

i'm from a smallish town in the NE of England and here its pot or worse still heroin. kids as young as 10 years old already addicted which is truly sad. I lived with a heroin addict for a year(he'd been dependant for 16 years all told). He finally got clean after a methadone programme...but not before beating me half to death!!!

In NC it is crack for sure. RX narcotics are big too. There is some heroin and pot. I don't hear a whole lot about meth. A few years ago it wasn't around at all, so I am sure it is increasing, but not a big problem yet as far as I know.

In our small town the big one is CRACK but METH is taking over. I live in an extreamly small town and we have had like two or three Meth Lab bust is the past few years. It is really scarey and I feel terrible for the ones who get addicted.

In Austin, TX the most underground & heavily used drug (by the punks as well as the pigs:)! I know of several "possession of a controlled substance" charges where the amount of meth reported in the police report for their bust was 2 to 3 times less than the amount of dope they where caught with!

As in a 7 gram bust was only reported as: 2.3 grams! As well as another I know of. All I have to say, if you're still an Austin, TX resident is this: WATCH OUT FOR THE UNDERCOVER PLAIN-CLOTHES COPS THERE!

They are the biggest suppliers there, for personal gains as well as so they have dope to use to set somebody up on the chance they do a "FALSE ARREST" so as not to get it taken up with their superiors! As far as I am concerned, POLICE ARE THE BIGGEST/BADDEST/MOST CORRUPT GANG OUT THERE... WHY, BECAUSE THEY CAN BE.

On another note, their is a record label named SUPER SECRET RECORDS who just signed THE HOT RAILS!

Need I say any more:)?

Personaly I feel if the police actually spent as much time pursuing "real criminals" who raped, robbed and/or murdered rather than setting kids up who choose to use... the local "DUNKIN DONUTS" may just go out of business!

However we all know, this will never happen:)!

Alcohol without question, though there is an awful lot of meth use here. Mind, this is a town of 3800, so "a lot" is relative.

The strange thing is that the police are very selective about who they arrest for possession or manufacture. They manage to have one highly publicized bust of several people about once a week--usually they hit a party and find someone with a baggie or a pipe in their pocket. On the other hand, a few blocks from here, a rather paranoid fellow obviously has a large-scale meth lab going on his property--one can smell the chemicals from some distance away and he often has a truck parked in his yard with a tank of anhydrous ammonia (illegal to possess in Minnesota unless you are a licensed agricultural user) sitting in the back. He was quietly arrested last fall and released three days later without being charged. Despite the fact that he harasses his neighbors constantly (including vandalism), assaults anyone who so much as walks past his home when he's in a bad mood, and appears to be dealing in stolen goods besides, law enforcement seems to have no interest in doing anything about him.

Here in the Lovely town of Ionia, Michigan it would have to be EVERYTHING. no lie, you hear about every type of drug there is, Weed to Cocaine,just by walking down the street, doesnt matter where you are,you'll hear someone mention it.

Here in North Carolina it's prescription drugs & ICE ( METH )

I live in Mpls. and my neighborhood is full of crack.

Wow, this thread is truly terrifying. I live in L.A. and I have no idea what the most popular drug is. I only know some people who smoke pot.

Here is mainly meth and weed. My daughter in high school can get anything she wants in the classrooms during class even. When she was in middle school it was getting as bad. I even see the kids dealing it on the corner right across the street from the middle school in front of everyone to see. We actually live a very decent neighborhood. That's real sad.

Here is mainly meth and weed. My daughter in high school can get anything she wants in the classrooms during class even. When she was in middle school it was getting as bad. I even see the kids dealing it on the corner right across the street from the middle school in front of everyone to see. We actually live a very decent neighborhood. That's real sad. Sorry it posted twice but I have help from my grandchild.

There is a fair amount of meth around this area, but by far the most "popular" drug is alcohol. Which should not be minimized. Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is well-worth listening to. She has probably tried every drug ever to hit the streets, but it was alcohol that almost killed her.

I'm in Northern Minnesota in the middle of nowhere and surprisingly our biggest is meth. Its everywhere you look around here. We have lots of woods which creates lots of labs and places to cook it cuz they never get found. You can get anything you want up here. I know quite a few people on heroin, I myself had a problem w/ crack & cocaine few years ago. Its all quite easily accessible even when we are 4 hours from Minneapolis/St.Paul.

Am also in northern Minnesota in the middle of nowhere--we just might be neighbors! I too am astonished at the number of meth busts that go on here, so it's out there. Meanwhile, the next town over from me has a population of 1100 and 13 bars on Main Street alone.

I spent some time in Lutsen, MN. Are you guys close to lutsen? It is on lake superior near grand marais.

I am on the Iron Range, where men are men and so are the women. It's a bullheaded, hardcore blue-collar area where pickup trucks rule, where being articulate consists of being able to extend one's middle finger, and achievement means being the last man standing after a bar fight. Anyone with a degree is referred to as a "big shot", and apart from office hours, anyone professional is essentially invisible here--frankly, I think they hide.

It's cheap to live here, which is one of the main redeeming factors of the area. It is also the home of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, the World's Largest Hockey Stick, and the world's largest manmade hole in the ground. Unique tourist attractions one and all. And the hole in the ground mystifies most locals, since they cannot tell the difference between their anal orifice and said hole in the ground.

The 2005 movie "North Country" (which was filmed here) does a semi-decent job of showing the worst face of the Iron Range. In all fairness, it is not all that bad, but the movie looked mighty familiar, I must say.

rofl! Nothing like Lutsen, I guess!

Meth - ice is the drug that everyone is doing right now, by smoking or snorting, here in Los Angeles. Weed is still around and still popular around here. Cocaine - I have not heard anyone that still use or buy cocaine. Ice is the "IN" drug basically in the state of California.

CRACK is the drug of choice in Mississippi........ We had a huge rise of crack user in the 90's and now Mississippi is overtaken by 30 year old crack addicts who have little or no chance to ever have a normal / clean life. Most wind up in jail or dead after living on the streets for years begging/stealing and turning tricks for rock. I have no faith in recover once an addicts has reached a certin point they have no chance to get better.

That brings a question? How long does someone have to use to get to the place of no return. I am still holding on for my love one. I was never told that it was not possible after years of using. Am i just dreaming..dont know if I can bear it if there is no hope. He has lost so much of his life to the drug crack. I guess its to late for him an for that i am deeply heart broken. What should I expect now ..more jail ...or just death. He got hooked in the 90s in high school..has been of and on.

Is there no hope?

My ex is 45 years old. He started using drugs at age 16. Has been a crack addict for years. He always said he wanted to stop, but at this point, I think it was all talk. Look where it landed him now! His life is destroyed. Even when he gets out of prison, he has dug a hole so deep for himself that he'll never get out. I refuse to go there with him!

Is there no hope?

There is always hope. I was using very heavily from 1988-1992, clean 2 1/2 years, used again until 2001 (about 6 years). I have over six years clean and sober now. I am incredibly happy and my life has come back together well. I have a good career, rebuilt my credit, bought a townhouse, got married and rebuilt the relationship with my family. I have friends in NA that were in prison over 20 years and now have over 10 years clean. I have seen people that used all their lives and got clean in their 60's. While I do think the odds go down the longer you use, recovery can happen at any time.

Sorry for the off topic post, but I just can't let anyone believe there is no hope. There is always hope.

In my age group around town its meth. Some of them like alcohol but since most of us are underage and can't buy it. Meth sellers don't care about your age.........

Meth in Northern California.

There is always hope. I was using very heavily from 1988-1992, clean 2 1/2 years, used again until 2001 (about 6 years). I have over six years clean and sober now. I am incredibly happy and my life has come back together well. I have a good career, rebuilt my credit, bought a townhouse, got married and rebuilt the relationship with my family. I have friends in NA that were in prison over 20 years and now have over 10 years clean. I have seen people that used all their lives and got clean in their 60's. While I do think the odds go down the longer you use, recovery can happen at any time.

Sorry for the off topic post, but I just can't let anyone believe there is no hope. There is always hope.

Inhouse, I am very happy that you have overcome your problems, and you are right, there is always hope! I had to walk away though because the hope that I had was allowing my ex to destroy my life along with his. It takes alot to give up on someone that you love so much, and believe me, I did love that man alot! Today is his 45th birthday, and I am very sad to think about where he is and why he's there. All because of years of crack use. The area where he is from is drenched with crack. It's everywhere! We moved away, and he kept getting it anyway. I guess he didn't want to be clean bad enough. I hope he does when he gets out in 5 years.

Indiana. Here it is Meth. And here if you get caught, you can get up to 50 years! They are doing alot of busts here, trying to keep it under control, after all it is killing our young people.

[quote=1dayatatime]meth is made in a "lab" in your home, in the woods --wherever, its highly explosive.

I contains sudafed and lots of other harmful chemicals. People who are on it really bad (probably 95%) get these horrible sores on their bodies. Usually on their face, arms, legs and or backs.

Please don't let the lies get to you. Very, very FEW people 'on' meth have sores all over themselves. That's a lie. They have chosen a small handful of real losers who couldn't handle tylenol, and used them as poster-children in the fake war on meth. If you met me in the grocery store, you would never know that my experiences with meth started over 30 years ago. No sores, I have hair and teeth, and i am 5' 5" and weigh about 150 lbs.

And one more revelation to think about, regarding that popular video "the faces of meth"--- I actually interviewed 4 of thos people who were showcased in the video. One was using meth, one was a heroin addict, and the other two were coke addicts who had never touched meth.

Guess which two the coke addicts were?

They were two of the ones with the worst open sores all over themselves!!!

You wanna know why they each told me they did that to themselves?

Because "coke makes you think and feel like you got bugs under your skin", the one said.

The other one said when she got too high, she picked at her face because "it looked like big black-heads were popping up all over----they HAD to GO..."

and as for ALL those chemicals in meth---that list is the common chemicals for making meth by FOUR different methods, plus alternates as substitutes.

They are not even close to being used in the same process together. They also list bleach as a component, which is stupid because chlorine destroys meth! there is no process that uses chlorine with ephedrine to make meth---it's chemically impossible.

I went to prison for manufacturing methamphetamine. Been there, done that.

I assure you, they are lying to you for the most part, making it seem much bigger and more pervasive than it really is. It can be explosive and the chems are caustic, and no one should have to be subjected to that against their will. That's just wrong by not allowing them to make their own choices.

But the tactic is to scare everyone into a frenzy---

And it worked too--it seems to have scared the heck out of you, didn't it?

Its Bout The Same For Weed An Powder . . Out Here It Seems Like Powder Is The New Weed Tho . . .

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was mostly crack. My husband was addicted to it and he didnt care who he hurt and how he did it. BOYS AND GIRLS when they get hooked they are a WHOLE New person!!! its terrible, He had me scared to death. He was staying out all night and days at a time. He would bring all kinds of ppl home with him. He started using Meth. It got really bad then, I would sit up all night praying and crying myself to sleep not knowing why I wasnt good enough for him to stop for. My Nana got sick and he got himself off he knew I needed him. To late! He was picked up cause he was on parole when he was doing all of this.He is now in jail realizing how stupid he was and begging me not to leave him. He has appologized and told me when you get addicted it takes over you and all you can think about is your next hit. Think twice before ever using

I would have to say Meth, Ex and Weed ....Sad that any drug has to be in our communities but the reality is that it is all around our kids ...

I'd have to say meth - marijuana is still popular but they (cops) don't even consider that a drug here anymore (Nor. Cal)

its a tossup between weed and crack...

I live in Tucson, AZ and meth is the biggest problem.

I live in Wiesbaden, Germany, about 20 minutes from Frankfurt. Here in Wiesbaden I would say the most widespread drugs are hash and grass. In Frankfurt i would recon, hash, grass, heroin, cocain, some crack and ice.

well here close to seattle its meth,
yea i was around all that stuff but its over now, hopefully i wont be one of those that go back to it.
i did about everything but shoot it.
2 months n counting

[quote=1dayatatime]People who are on it really bad (probably 95%) get these horrible sores on their bodies. Usually on their face, arms, legs and or backs.

Please don't let the lies get to you. Very, very FEW people 'on' meth have sores all over themselves. That's a lie.

soo true, i used for atleast a year and sum months and i dont got any sores, never felt i had insects in my body or none of that crap, yea i was paraniod and w/e else but none at that sores stuff which is suppose to be cause by usin meth. and about the teeth thing, well, maybe thats a lil true cuz i've known people that have been on it for atleast 4-5 years and have had teeth that have fallen, and yes they do brush their teeth so who knows.

In my town the biggest drug problem has been and still is with RX drugs mainly Oxycontin. But I think meth is slowly making it's appearence in my small town. But for years oxycontin has over took and ruined the town and many lifes here.

In response to those who have been taken in by the horrible "descriptions" of what police believe, and want you to believe a meth user looks like, I submit the following alternative explanation for some of that hype.

Note: the CDC and the American Medical Journals all have similar info on this new affliction, it is real, and I believe that this affliction is being "borrowed" in order to enhance society's loathing of meth and meth users. I'm not saying that meth users have morgellans, or that there are not meth users who have picked themselves apart---there are those.

What I'm saying, is that we should be careful when we judge others, because we may in fact be making grave errors in that judgement...and that's what we get when we make hasty judgements that involve an entire group of other people, based on incomplete and/or inaccurate information.

"judge not, lest ye be judged..."

Morgellons And The Mystery Of Mind Control
By: Cliff Mickelson
7-11-06
Link <<http://www.curezone.com/forums/mp.asp?f=315&i=473 >>

As time passes, the magnitude of the ongoing catastrophic affliction known as "Morgellons disease", Elliot's disease, (Or just simply Skin 'Fibers') continues to geometrically explode across North America, as well as around the world.

Illustrative, as a result of that terrifying growth, is evidence that (IMO) this disease is no accident of nature. In truth, there may well be nothing "natural" or "accidental" about it at all.

I believe continued research into the mechanics and nature of this horrid affliction will eventually find this creature employs at least five (and possibly 7 or more) different manifestations (appearances) which it uses to its advantage, as well as enabling several different growth or evolutionary functions during its tenure within the human body.

The organism reveals itself thus, being programmed, as it appears to be, with a specific, a purposeful and a multilevel agenda to accomplish.

I believe it will be proven that this creature follows a directive that goes far beyond the parameters of a biologically based parasitic relationship between mutually hostile organisms.

Its physical effects (*see link at bottom of page) are a deliberate and necessary portion of its encapsulated directive. But there may be more...it appears also to be programmed to seek out a portal or mental patch bay, if you will, within its host, and then to serve in a bookmark role as a passive, pre-instructed selective activator of certain predisposed and targeted personality characteristics and/or thought process constructs that lay within the dominion of the human mind.

Thus, this entity, by gaining access to the human or apparently ANY animal body, is able to deliver to that target, a command packet of bio-codes which affects a highly successful form of untraceable activation, direction and control over that target's selection of assigned behavioral priorities and preferences.

These preferences outwardly appear, (to others) as being the victim's overt choices , but in reality, they are simply an override of the victim's own control hardware and serve as an activation protocol for already latent or suppressed counterproductive personality traits.

This construct may be easier to grasp if one recalls that it is a proven fact that these kind of "mindsnatchers" or behavioral modifiers already exist in the natural parasitic world.

In particular, I am reminded of a parasite that infects mice and then alters their brain chemistry so that they seek the company of cats. The mice are then killed and devoured by the cats. This is accomplished so the parasite may finish its life cycle in the intestines of the cat. The mouse, in effect, commits mmits suicide to further the agenda of the parasite.

So, with this example in mind, rest assured that the Morgellons organism appears to possess a similar, modular function that can interject itself into some of the more important and poorly understood aspects of the human thought processes.

These include the domains of creative abstraction, personality, derivative social behavior, and most importantly, self-perception and the definition of one's personal reality.

All this may be achieved by working a delivery transfer to the victim, from a pre-programed and passively coded organic base of information that is integral to the unit (organism) itself. This packet of information is indistinguishable from, and indeed may well be, the same base of code upon which the unit itself is assembled.

This "creature" then, is a form and signpost of a foreign mastery.

And...

If there is a master, then it follows that there must also be a slave.

This is therefore a testament to the power of some kind of external life or form to effect, by its subterfuge upon the denizens of this earth, a chain of bondage the likes of which are still only pipe dreams in the cutting edge laboratories of even the most visionary mad scientists or only in the fantasies of the most maniacal of power hungry and demented political monsters.

So, it is germane to ask: Is this the manner in which some unseen evil intends to overcome the abstract, soaring, incarnations of the human "mind"?!

Are the mice about to volunteer to feed the cat? As always, there is much more here that ever meets the eye. Again, I believe it will be shown that none of this is an accident. The old folk saying: "The Devil is in the smallest of details" is very true...

This time, however, the devil may well BE the smallest of details.

- CliffMickelson

(*) Morgellons does more than just rewire the way a victim's mind works. [For a sobering description of the "physical effects" of Morgellons ... Follow link at bottom of page to a long but excellent article written in 2003 by Cathy McDonald]

Morgellon's Syndrome was dealt with fictionally in William Friedkin's movie "Bug".

Doctors seem unable to make up their minds as to whether it actually exists. Meanwhile, thousands of patients are showing up with identical symptoms and being told they are "delusional". Some of them may well be, but surely the appearance of a condition of this sort bears further research.

The past 30 years have seen the emergence of a number of controversial diseases which the medical establishment seems reluctant to acknowledge. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a great example. While mainstream medicine is finally acknowledging that it exists, the average period between onset and diagnosis remains around seven years. During those seven years virtually every patient is told repeatedly that their problem is psychiatric.

Yes, I know this is terribly off-topic, but I think sixpack raises an interesting point which may well be of interest to some members of this forum. I tend to be highly skeptical of concepts like "mind control programs", but an emerging disease with consistent and very strange symptoms deserves attention, not only from the professional community but for those who may be experiencing odd symptoms or have a loved one who is experiencing them.

There are several web pages dedicated to Morgellon's, and if you don't mind being grossed-out a bit, several sufferers have posted videos of their lesions and items removed from them on YouTube.

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:( I hate to even talk about this but yes in Newark Ohio METH is the drug of choice (my family memeber was on it so bad she was in the hospital for three days and almost died)

Meth is definatley a problem in my area of NV. you know i heard it said once not too long ago that they can find one cow that is diseased with mad cow out of millions of cows in the whole united states. But they cannot find the widespread of frug dealers and bring them down. what a concept huh?

In Columbus I am guessing it is crack I have never heard of anyone doing meth here but i'm sure it's here.

in TEXAS XANAX AND ALCOHOL COMBINATION. UNDERSTAND ITS A REAL HIGH. DONT KNOW. I AM FROM THE HIPPY GENERATION

was concerning the drug of choice in many of the posts. The reason I mentioned it was in response to the previous post describing what using meth looks like. Point being that things may not be what they seem, and there just may be some misconceptions about meth being used prevalently in any area, if indeed something like morgellons were to be at work, rather than an epidemic of idiots tearing themselves apart due to "meth".

I point out that our perceptions of those around us (the percentage of meth users) may be skewed, just like the justice department intended---anything to make a serious problem seem like an epidemic that needs "war" declared on it, at a substantial constitutional loss to us all.

...and this tactic scares people...just as intended.

Personally, I don't like being manipulated, preferring instead to see my surroundings with my eyes wide open. That's why I have not offered my perception of the "drug of choice" in my area. I can't tell by looking at other people, and the media and local police have their own agenda which may or may not include reality...so, what DO you go by?

How does one make an accurate assessment of what countless others are doing mostly in the privacy of their own space?

I don't know, and won't venture to add my skewed perception to the mix.

I'd rather sit back and watch other people make guesses about what goes on in their little corner of the world...and wish we hadn't been trained to make so many "guesses" about other people's lives, while making no guesses as to how to improve our little corners.

Sorry, but that's my opinion.

here in the itty bitty town that i live in next to paris texas, i would have to say that its pot. everyone here smokes it. the 2nd one would have to be meth.

well this is to sixpack6t9, well i would like to say that its not a guess as to why i said meth was the biggest problem here, its cuz i know first hand, yea ive gone to houses that are full of meth heads, known a lot of people around my area, and it is the things that people prefer around here, so it is no guess and it is what i've seen and learned from my lil corner of the world. but den again thats just my opinion.

i live in texas crack meth and any kind of pills they can get ahold of its a mess here in texas if you ask me i heard it is easier to get off of herion than it is to get off of crack

In my town I would have to say pot and powdered cocaine but thats pretty much a guess from listening to my police monitor

in san diego i'd say weed crystal and crack

1st-meth
2nd -crack
3rd-cocaine
4th-exstacy
5th weed, and so on

Believe It Or Not It's Methadone! My Ex-husband Has Been Addicted To It For Over Five Years Now. I Live In A Small Community And You Would Not Believe The People Who Are Addicted To Prescription Drugs. Other Than That I Would Have To Say Weed And Meth.

I am so blown away that meth is really taking over. Scary. In the suburbs of Chicago I was thinking weed, but maybe its not.

the popular druq in my town would have to be [crack or this crazy thinq called meth] && alot HERION , Alot of my famliy has overdosed from Herion in tha past 3 years