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Meth
A list of Meth
Facts and Statistics.
 | The estimated cost of making meth is $100 an ounce, with a street value
of $800 an ounce.
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| Methamphetamine's high lasts for 6 to 12 hours, and 50% of the drug is
removed
from the body in 12 hours.
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| Meth lab seizures have gone up 577% nationally since 1995.
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| Nowhere is it a bigger problem that in the Midwest, where meth accounts
for nearly 90% of all drug cases, and nowhere is it more prevalent than in
Oklahoma, which ranks in the top five in almost every meth category.
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| Methamphetamine can kill you. An overdose of meth can result in heart
failure.
Long-term physical effects such as liver, kidney, and lung damage may also
kill you.
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| Congress didn't deem Arkansas worthy of federal grant money to clean up
hazardous methamphetamine labs although the state led the nation last year
in the number of lab seizures per capita. As a result, federal and state
officials
are scrambling to find money to cover cleanup costs.
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| The cost to clean up a single meth lab ranges from $3,000 TO $160,000.
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| Meth-making chemicals are harmful if ingested, inhaled or absorbed through
the skin. In Arizona, police frequently charge meth makers with felony child
abuse if there are any minors in the home where manufacture is taking place.
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| Meth production and trafficking were originally concentrated in the West
and Southwest, particularly in California, Arizona, Utah, and Texas. Suppliers
were outlaw motorcycle gangs and independent trafficking groups. Although
California produces 85 percent of the Nation’s methamphetamine, the expansion
of Mexico-based meth traffickers and independent U.S.-based laboratories has
increased meth availability and abuse in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest,
portions
of the Southeast (including Georgia, Tennessee, and the surrounding states),
and, more recently, the Mid-Atlantic states and New England.
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| From 1975 to 2001, DEA seized 16,054 illegal drug laboratories, of which
13,931 were used to produce methamphetamine. Of the 1490 illegal drug
laboratories
seized by DEA in 2001, 1445 were methamphetamine labs. |
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