Meth facts ...

• Methamphetamine, with its cheaper, longer-lasting high, surpassed Cocaine as the drug that most often landed abusers in Colorado treatment centers in 2003.*
• Meth-related deaths in Coloradomorethan doubled the past five years, from 16 in 1995-1998 to 38 from 1999-2002.*
• Calls to the Rocky Mountain Poison Center about meth rose from a cople of dozen in the mid-1990s to about 300 per year the past three years.*
• Police in Colorado busted about 25 clandestine meth labs annually in the mid-90s. Now they're destroying about 500 a year.*
• Police estimate that 1 out of every 10 meth labs are busted.
• For every one pound of methamphetamine, about 5 pounds of toxic waste are produced.

* Source Drug-Rehab.org