Who Suffers?

Why You Should Care

Because methamphetamine is easily made from readily obtainable household items, it’s easier to supply an ever-increasing demand for the drug. Meth doesn’t have to be imported. Although it’s dangerous, anybody can make it.

Meth has the potential to wreck more lives and impact more families than any other illegal drug. And it’s not somebody else’s problem. Meth doesn’t discriminate by race or sex. Teenagers aren’t the only ones trying it. There could be someone in your family who’s a user, and you may not realize it.

Now is the time to act, to prevent anyone else from becoming a user. They could ruin their lives, lose their children, or go to prison. Don’t let it happen.

Meth impacts Non-Users Too

Methamphetamine does not just impact the user, but those around them- including YOU!

• Domestic violence and child neglect
• One in six labs explodes or catches fire
• Every pound of meth leaves behind 5-6 pounds of toxic waste
• Rental properties are used for meth labs leaving toxic waste that the property owner does not have to clean up. This leaves the next renter unaware that they are being exposed to the toxic waste left behind.
• Property values decline
• Crime escalates and increased tax dollars spent in the judicial system and law enforcement
• Death

The Human Toll

Jacob Hardy never knew his killer. In the early morning hours of December 6, 2003, the 19-year-old Macon State College student was sitting in his truck in the parking lot of Enmark on Houston Lake Road, where he was given a friend a ride. A Middle Georgia teenager who had been high on meth for over a week sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, then shot him in the head. His family, girlfriend, and countless friends were left to ask why this boy, who did not do drugs was shot to death by an addict.