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urns and injuries caused by meth lab fires or explosions; and child welfare officialshave to respond to an increase in child abuse and neglect cases. Overall, the impactson a community may include the following:• Increase in crime, such as burglary, identity theft, violence, and drugtrafficking.• Financial and resource strain on law enforcement to combat methamphetamine-relatedcrime and cleanup of meth labs.• Financial and resource strain on health care systems. Health care facilitiessee an increase in emergency room visits, individuals with burns and respiratorydamage, children with methamphetamine-related injuries and medicaland behavioral problems, the spread of infectious diseases such as hepatitisand HIV, the need for dental care (treatment of “meth mouth”), and theneed for addiction treatment programs.• Financial and resource strain on child welfare agencies. Child welfare agenciessee an increase in the number of neglected, abused, and orphaned childrenneeding services as a result of living with adults who abuse and producemethamphetamine.• Environmental harm. A methamphetamine laboratory generates five to sixpounds of hazardous waste for each pound of methamphetamine produced.Methamphetamine cooks routinely dump the toxic waste into streams, rivers,fields, backyards, and sewage systems, posing immediate and long-termenvironmental health risks. Poisonous vapors produced during the cookingprocess permeate the furnishings and structure of houses and buildings,often making them uninhabitable.© 2007 Society for Public Health Education• Environmental remediation. Cleaning up a methamphetamine laboratoryand its surrounding environment becomes a federal, state, local, and individualliability (e.g., property owners and rental landlords).• Increase in unemployment, workers’ compensation costs, insurance rates,and losses in employee productivity.Additional information on the various ways meth and meth labs affect communitymembers is available in the Information Sheets section of this toolkit.Part A: An Educational Toolkit for Health Educators17
SummaryMethamphetamine is a man-made central nervous system stimulant that can beswallowed, snorted, injected, or smoked and has a high potential for abuse and addiction.Meth is illegally produced in domestic and foreign clandestine laboratorieswith commonly found ingredients that are toxic and volatile. Meth use and productionknows no boundaries—geographic, economic, or ethnic—and has a severe andcostly impact on the health and safety of users, their families, and communities.There is hope as we see effective treatment models for people struggling with methaddiction; law enforcement and legislation efforts taking root at the state, national,and international levels; and the creation and implementation of community actionto fight back against meth at the local level.ReferencesIritani, B. J., Halifors, D. D., & Bauer, D. J. (2007). Crystal methamphetamine use among youngadults in the USA. Addiction, 102(7), 1102–1113.National Drug Intelligence Center. (2005). Marijuana and methamphetamine trafficking onfederal lands threat assessment. Retrieved May 2007 from http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs10/10402/index.htm.National Drug Intelligence Center. (2006). National drug threat assessment 2007. Retrieved May2007 from http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs21/21137/index.htm.National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2006). Methamphetamine abuse and addiction (rev.ed.). Research Report Series. Retrieved May 2007 from http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/Methamph/Methamph.html.Office of National Drug Control Policy. (2006a). Pushing back against meth: A progress report onthe fight against methamphetamine in the United States. Retrieved May 2007 from http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/pdf/pushingback_against_meth.pdf.Office of National Drug Control Policy. (2006b). Street terms: Drugs and the drug trade. RetrievedSeptember 14, 2007, from http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/default.asp.The Partnership for a Drug-Free America. (n.d.). Meth360 information kit, intervention& treatment fact Sheet. Retrieved May 2007 from http://www.drugfree.org/Files/Meth_Fact_Sheets.Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2006). Treatment Episode DataSet (TEDS) Highlights—2005. Retrieved May 2007 from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/teds2k5/tedshi2k5toc.htm.© 2007 Society for Public Health Education18 Helping Communities Combat Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratories
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