Reply #35: Hawaii was ahead of the mainland on this [View All]

I think the smokable meth caught on there faster and then spread to California. That's the new enemy now according to my local government. I'm not sure why, but they are swearing it is.

I wish them luck with their endeavor. I would like to believe this is the remedy. I just don't see this having lasting impact on the problem.

I had a friend who had children, a husband and career. She started doing meth via a friend at work, just to keep up. It took over her life. She tried to quit and failed more times than I could keep count. Eventually she lost her job, followed by her husband and the kids. Last I saw of her before she disappeared she was crisp as a tortilla chip. This all happened in just under a 5 year time span.

After having seen what she would forfeit and do for the drug and what she went through trying to get off, I now advocate better addiction treatment.

If you take a way pseudoephedrine eventually it will be something else. Many things they once used to make it you can no longer purchase. They simply improvise with something else. If they can't do that they'll import it, just like you said.