NOW FOR THE TRUTH
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| "They have a high school
there. There are one thousand six hundred students in that high
school. Over one third of those students have now tried methamphetamine." |
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House Hearings, 1999
Constantine, head of DEA.
"We had a miniscule methamphetamine
problem until there was developed wide scale distribution from
these [Mexican] criminal organizations. To give you a sense of
the growth and the explosion, in 1991 emergency admissions in
this country for methamphetamine were 4,900. By 1997, the emergency
room admissions had gone to 17,400. To give you an example of
the impact in the middle part of this country, in Des Moines
Iowa, there are now more methamphetamine arrests than there are
drunken driving arrests. ....We find that they build them
[meth labs] close to middle schools and equestrian centers where
young people are taking riding lessons, and all of them being
driven by the heads of criminal groups that are based in Mexico." |
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