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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 527948" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Meth has been a scourge in rural America for decades. The farther out from a city you are, the more hold the meth has. It is harder to get caught out here, and harder to get drugs that have to be imported like opiates and cocaine, but meth could be made just about anywhere you were not near the cops. I have friends who are dealing with relatives in their 60s who have been meth addicts all of my friends' lives and it is dang scary. Not close friends, really, but people I know from school and from college and the community. Until recently no one talked about it though. It wasn't hidden, just wasn't talked about. Back in high school I thought one girl's parents were about sixty, that she was a change of life baby, but they were only in their 40s. Meth does that to you - makes you look so much older and more sick than you were just months before. It is terrifying to me.</p><p></p><p>People don't realize that out in the rural towns in OK, KS, MO, TX, etc... that this is about the worst thing around. They think of it as more of a city drug, but it was always more popular iwth the rural white male than any other population group, from the data I have seen. I was stunned to see that Lawton, OK is on the list of Top 10 most dangerous cities in the US. Meth and the economy are directly responsible for this. husband's great aunt or gma, I forget which it was, at one time owned most of Lawton - she got it in a lottery when it was first settled. So we know a lot of the history of the town. It is largely a ghost city in many areas and meth has just decimated the population - either by making addicts out of the people or by driving people away because it is so dangerous there. It makes me sick because it used to be a real cultural center for this part of the US.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 527948, member: 1233"] Meth has been a scourge in rural America for decades. The farther out from a city you are, the more hold the meth has. It is harder to get caught out here, and harder to get drugs that have to be imported like opiates and cocaine, but meth could be made just about anywhere you were not near the cops. I have friends who are dealing with relatives in their 60s who have been meth addicts all of my friends' lives and it is dang scary. Not close friends, really, but people I know from school and from college and the community. Until recently no one talked about it though. It wasn't hidden, just wasn't talked about. Back in high school I thought one girl's parents were about sixty, that she was a change of life baby, but they were only in their 40s. Meth does that to you - makes you look so much older and more sick than you were just months before. It is terrifying to me. People don't realize that out in the rural towns in OK, KS, MO, TX, etc... that this is about the worst thing around. They think of it as more of a city drug, but it was always more popular iwth the rural white male than any other population group, from the data I have seen. I was stunned to see that Lawton, OK is on the list of Top 10 most dangerous cities in the US. Meth and the economy are directly responsible for this. husband's great aunt or gma, I forget which it was, at one time owned most of Lawton - she got it in a lottery when it was first settled. So we know a lot of the history of the town. It is largely a ghost city in many areas and meth has just decimated the population - either by making addicts out of the people or by driving people away because it is so dangerous there. It makes me sick because it used to be a real cultural center for this part of the US. [/QUOTE]
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