Meth

A big problem in my area.

A summer camp just evac'd in Bailey because of the presence of meth residue.

I think I was talking with the Bubb'ster over some beers a while back about this. It's bad shit & it just takes the human out of the human being. Every-time I see a closure in my area, the first thing I think of is another meth lab popping up; take away the good that climbers can do and make it safe for tweakers.

Anyone ever see a lab? Chris Jones, I think you've pulled some clean-up duty over these. Scary. The chemicals are just poisonous as hell & can be extremely volatile.

I hate meth & what it does around here.

I've seen it ruin the lives of those near and dear to me.
Speed kills.
It is evil incarnate.

Meth addiction is a major problem among housewives in Salt Lake. It was made public by a young film student who discovered that her middle-class mom was strung out on the drug. Apparently these suburban moms caught on to the realization that they could achieve super soccer mom stamina, stay trim, and still have energy in the bedroom while under the influence of Meth. The SLC police chief self-admittedly is perplexed by the problem and its social implications.

I don't recall the name of her film, although I'm sure that there are news links about this odd phenomenon.

I hope this wasn't the "IdRaHaJe" camp. We almost sent our daughter there this year and my husband went there as a child as well as his mother. I'd hate to see anything bad happen to that place!!

I found a link.

It is a huge problem in Utah. Here is link to another movie about it called "Happy Valley."
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now that's an interesting name... your *new* around here...?

http://www.dot.state.co.us/AdoptAHighway/SafetyVideo/MethLabAAH.wmv

We have to watch this video twice a year for the adopt a road we have.
Scary crap!

dance babeee, rock-on ~

meth kills - we have to educate these poor souls that they are also dying while profits are being made by people that hate them (drug cartels)

uh oh, ther's a lot of kerosene and epsom salts in my basement ):

Climbers Against Meth - CAM -- what the hell, make it a dot-org.

Meth is the reason my car has been broken into twice here in Hawaii. Methheads will do anything here to get it.

Meth is one of the most neuro-toxic drugs that one can put in their body. Right up there with alcohol.

Richard Radcliffe wrote:Meth is one of the most neuro-toxic drugs that one can put in their body. Right up there with alcohol.

yapp.. right up there with Guiness tapp

Yeah Mark back in 2002 I helped clean up the remains of a meth lab on Forest Service land off of the 550 rd south of Buffalo Creek. It was near DeGaulle's Nose. If I knew then what I know now about the residue it leaves on everything I would not have helped with that job. We did not have the proper safety equipment to be touching any of the stuff that we moved out of there.

TWEAKERS SUCK!!

Richard Radcliffe wrote:Meth is one of the most neuro-toxic drugs that one can put in their body. Right up there with alcohol.

LOL. Comparing tweak to alcohol is one of the funniest things I've read this week--and I just read the Aaron thread. I really hope you're talking about rubbing alcohol.

--Marc

P.S.

Christopher Jones wrote:Yeah Mark back in 2002 I helped clean up the remains of a meth lab on Forest Service land off of the 550 rd south of Buffalo Creek. It was near DeGaulle's Nose. If I knew then what I know now about the residue it leaves on everything I would not have helped with that job. We did not have the proper safety equipment to be touching any of the stuff that we moved out of there.

Ha ha, I was in that thing wandering around, had no clue what it was. I'm super glad I didn't touch anything! It dawned on me pretty hard once you told me about cleaning it up what I had been looking at....

TGIF MF'ers

We all finally made it to the 1st Official day of The Summer of '08

Cheers Everyone..! ..and here's to those who did it without the 'Ice'

Wow, I have to say I never thought that the place where I got married (Aug 03) would be evacuated for a meth lab cleanup.

Isn't THAT special.

Marc Horan wrote:Comparing tweak to alcohol is one of the funniest things I'd read this week--and I just read the Aaron thread. I really hope you're talking about rubbing alcohol. --Marc

No, rubbing alcohol is not really too tasty. I was being slightly facetious, but you'd be surprised Marc.

Christopher Jones wrote:Yeah Mark back in 2002 I helped clean up the remains of a meth lab on Forest Service land off of the 550 rd south of Buffalo Creek. It was near DeGaulle's Nose. If I knew then what I know now about the residue it leaves on everything I would not have helped with that job. We did not have the proper safety equipment to be touching any of the stuff that we moved out of there.

This is a pretty important point. It's hazmat & explosives categories which are high in personal protection classification.

Anyone have thoughts on signs of what a meth lab is, how to recognize these things, what can be used in a lab, personal use signs if you run across someone on the way to a climb, & how to go about reporting/what we can do?

I've got some good notes from Clear Creek Cty that I'll dig up.

For something horrifying, check out Montana Meth Project. These ads are scary. If they are still around when my boy gets older, I will probably sit down and make him watch a few. Having a close relative that has battled addiction with this, I don't think they are too far off the mark.