Pubdate: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 Source: Fresno Bee, The (CA) Copyright: 2000 The Fresno Bee Contact: http://www.fresnobee.com/man/opinion/letters.html Website: http://www.fresnobee.com/ Forum: http://www.fresnobee.com/man/projects/webforums/opinion.html Note: This series also ran in the Modesto Bee and the Sacramento Bee A Special Report by the McClatchy Company's California Newspapers with a special website: http://www.methvalley.com/ First, thank you to Jo-D for the many hours spent newshawking and posting this huge multi-part series. In a note called "To Our Readers" the editors of the series wrote: Unlike previous drug scourges, the meth epidemic is uniquely American in origin. Alarmingly, as a team of Bee reporters from Modesto, Fresno and Sacramento document in today's special 18-page section, "A Madness Called Meth," California's great Central Valley is meth's principal breeding ground and the place where the bulk of its victims live. Bookmark: MAP's link to meth articles: http://www.mapinc.org/find?201 But perhaps it may be appropriate to consider this link: http://www.mapinc.org/find?117 SERIES INDEX: Introduction http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1500/a07.html Chapter 1: The Family Who Cranks Together http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1501/a08.html Chapter 2: Uncle Fester http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1502/a02.html Chapter 3: Father Time http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1501/a07.html Chapter 4: Beavis, Butt-Head And The Making Of Meth http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1502/a01.html Chapter 5: Meth And The Drug Lords http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00.n1501.a10.html Chapter 5b: Walking A Fine Line http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1502/a04.html Chapter 6: The Spiders http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1502/a03.html Chapter 6b: From Small-Time Dealer To Big Time Cook http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1505/a01.html Chapter 7: Users, The Stories Of Three Meth Addicts http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00.n1501.a09.html Chapter 8: Suffer The Children http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1503/a02.html Chapter 8b: The Struggle Of A Father And Daughter http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1504/a06.html Chapter 9: The Pit In The Barn http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1506/a05.html Chapter 9b: A Homestead In Ruins http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1504/a04.html Chapter 10: How Clean Is Clean? http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1504/a03.html Chapter 11: Congress And The Pill Makers http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1506/a04.html Chapter 12: Squeezing The Balloon http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1507/a05.html Chapter 12b: "Life Or Meth?" http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1504/a05.html Chapter 13: The Bust, Agents And A Dealer Square Off http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1506/a03.html Chapter 14: Getting Straight http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1507/a04.html Chapter 14b: "This Keeps Us Clean" http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1504/a07.html Chapter 14c: Iowa'S Rainbow Recovery Center http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1504/a08.html Chapter 15: Nicki's Road http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1503/a01.html Epilogue http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1502/a05.html A Madness Called Meth, Editorial http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1509/a02.html A Madness Called Meth, To Our Readers http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1508/a07.html - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake