The PBS Frontline documentary on Meth is really worth watching...

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If you go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/ you can actually watch the whole thing with real player or windows media player.

It's an hour long documentary that was produce by Oregon Public Broadcasting. We in Oregon have had one of the earliest and worst problems with meth in the entire country. It's really devestating to see what happens to people and communities where meth is an epidemic.

I personally lost a good friend to it, and my brother was really screwed up on it until he hit a girl head on in a drunk driving accident. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison, which was incredibly sad, but it probably saved his life in the end. He had been stealing money from my parents to buy drugs for quite some time, and was really tearing my family apart.

Oregon recently put cold medicines behind the counter at pharmacies, and I've seen a lot of people here at DU complaining about that practice. If you are in that camp, please go watch this documentary and see what you think about it then.