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51US NV: Anti-Meth Coalition To Receive FundingFri, 30 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:07/01/2006

Carson City's new anti-methamphetamine coalition is slated to receive federal funding for the battle against methamphetamine, U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Reno, said Thursday.

"This is a great day for Nevada," said Gibbons, a candidate for governor. " ... I'm excited we are finally attacking the meth epidemic from all aspects."

The amount will be determined later by a conference committee. Gibbons said he also will seek money for the Washoe County Meth Community Response Alliance and other counties.

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52US NV: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (8 Of 23)Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Earlier this year a Spanish Springs High School senior and her father met with her counselor to withdraw from school.

She was one semester shy of graduation.

The girl had privately told counselor Lara Dreelan she was a methamphetamine addict. She was skipping school and didn't care anymore.

"I tried to talk to her dad and said she needed drug rehab because she couldn't fight it on her own," Dreelan said. "He said, 'Whew, I thought you were going to tell me she was pregnant.'"

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53US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (12Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Everyone was talking about it.

Meth destroyed this life, meth contributed to that tragedy.

Jails were filling with meth addicts, their children were being placed in foster care and school children were becoming the latest meth users.

So representatives from law enforcement, drug prevention and treatment, schools and public health came together to do something about a drug many feel has taken over the community.

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54US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (22Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

When Christine Lucas was 17, she gave birth to her second child in three years. When the baby was found to have marijuana in her system, Lucas was accepted into Washoe County's drug court along with her husband.

Fifteen months later, Lucas graduated from the court's program and delivered her third child. The baby was drug free. Lucas was 19.

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55US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (DayThu, 29 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

'HOW COULD I LET IT GET THAT BAD?'

Lynda Sherard was diagnosed with HIV just hours after she begged Reno police officers to arrest her in Rancho San Rafael Park in February 2005.

Washoe County Jail officials sent her to Washoe Medical Center before booking her for possession of a stolen vehicle -- her dealer's car that she was living out of -- and admitted her after the diagnosis.

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56US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (1BSun, 25 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV)          Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

A DRUG ADDICTION THAT KNOWS NO SOCIAL NOR MONETARY BOUNDARIES, METH HAS EXPLODED IN NEVADA

A few years ago, counselors, police officers, judges and store clerks already knew what the statistics would later confirm: methamphetamine, a cheap, potent drug that produces a lasting high and can be manufactured at home with off-the-shelf cold medicine, had surpassed alcohol as the most popular drug among those addicted to substances in Nevada.

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57US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (4CTue, 27 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Carol Wraught is an intelligent woman, but she didn't know the first thing about methamphetamine even though an addict was living right under her nose.

But she'd get a good lesson following a late night phone call a few years ago from her son, Ken, then 23. He had been booked into the Washoe County Jail for trafficking methamphetamine.

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58US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (4BSun, 25 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Sloan, Jim Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Across the country, newspapers, magazines and TV shows have sounded a warning call about the next great drug "epidemic" to strike the U.S. -- meth.

In August last year, a Newsweek cover story called meth "America's Most Dangerous Drug" and described it as a "plague" that has "quietly marched across the country and up the socioeconomic ladder." The New York Times said "meth makes crack look like child's play," and The Oregonian in Portland has printed close to 300 stories on meth in an ongoing investigation. Indeed, it's hard to find a state in the country where a leading newspaper has not reported on the growing peril of methamphetamine.

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59US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (1CTue, 27 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

"I FEEL BAD ABOUT SHOOTING THE OFFICER..."

Adolfo Benny Carreras is 24 and has a 4-year-old daughter.

Life before his long-standing methamphetamine addiction was spent in arcades with friends, cruising around town on Friday nights and bowling.

But Carreras will be spending at least the next 20 years in prison for shooting a Reno police officer in the face during a downtown gun battle. He said he had been on a 46-day methamphetamine and cocaine binge.

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60US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (3CTue, 27 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Experts say that babies of methamphetamine-addicted mothers are at risk of being born prematurely and having developmental disabilities, ultimately forcing society to pay for their social service and education programs, medical care and future legal troubles.

And in Nevada, meth addiction among pregnant females is growing. Nearly 66 percent of pregnant females seeking treatment in state-funded, drug-treatment programs last year listed meth as their drug of choice.

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61US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (6BSun, 25 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

The man sitting in a bright red pickup at a store in Reno dials his cell phone and waits.

His conversation is transmitted to radios in a handful of undercover police cars.

"Hey Mike, this is D. Gimme a call back."

The man, a citizen informant, is trying to set up his meth dealer while detectives from the Regional Street Enforcement Team watch the illegal activity. After the deal is done, they will trap the dealer with strategically placed cars and take him to jail for drug trafficking.

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62US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (16Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Mmalley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

One Reno mother last year bathed her 3-year-old son in hydrogen peroxide to eat the microscopic cameras she believed her neighbors inserted under his skin during the night.

A Sparks mother of four waited more than 24 hours to hospitalize her 10-month-old after he ate some of her meth stash kept on her knee-high night stand.

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63US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (23Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV)          Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

What parents should look for

# Negative changes in schoolwork, missing school or declining grades.

# Increased secrecy about possessions or activities.

# Use of incense, room deodorant or perfume to hide smoke or chemical odors.

# Subtle changes in conversations with friends, being more secretive, using "coded" language.

# New friends.

# Change in clothing choices -- new fascination with clothes that highlight drug use.

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64US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (21Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Michelle Smith was tired of chasing the bag.

"Sometimes you spend hours or days looking for (methamphetamine) and you go to someone who has to go to someone," said Smith, 37. "Then you play the wait game and you've already given them money and you don't know what they're really doing with it."

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65US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (15Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Cyndle Bell will always hear and see things that aren't real. She's afraid of the dark and can't walk by herself outside at night.

That's what remains after four years of methamphetamine abuse, two rehab sessions and heart surgery, but the Carson High senior is alive, preparing to graduate and planning to share her battle against drugs with the world.

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66US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (2BSun, 25 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

'BIG NEED' FOR HELP FOR TEEN ADDICTS

Treatment options for adolescent meth addicts in Washoe County got a boost recently when Elko-based Vitality Center was awarded more than $700,000 in federal funding for residential and outpatient treatment.

Vitality Center will replace Reno's SageWind, which is suspending its juvenile residential and outpatient program at the end of June for financial reasons. Sagewind had been the only juvenile residential treatment center in the area, while Quest Counseling, a 3-year-old Reno outpatient center for juveniles, is trying to expand into a separate 10-bed residential facility.

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67US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (19Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

The "mom-and-pop" meth lab seems to be going the way of all mom-and-pop operations of the past: the gas station, the hardware store and the grocery.

According to local law enforcement, whereas meth cooks once learned the recipe from family members or sold it for more drugs, Mexican-based drug-trafficking organizations now rule the meth trade in Nevada, producing pounds of high-quality crystal methamphetamine in superlabs in California and Mexico and slipping the drug across the border.

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68US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (7BSun, 25 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

If advertising can sell soft drinks, automobiles and sex, it can also sell anti-meth messages and prevent kids from using it.

Or so software billionaire Thomas Siebel thought.

Last year he gave $6 million in grants to the Montana Meth Project for a saturation campaign of multi-media shock ads that depicted teens using meth and the graphic devastation that follows. He hired the top advertising teams to make the commercials and Web site, along with a public relations team to conduct surveys on teens.

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69US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (5BSun, 25 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

In 2002, the new Sierra Nevada College President James Lee Ash Jr., hosted a holiday party at his Incline Village home for more than 100 school officials and community members.

There were catered food, decorations, a roaring fireplace and a man playing a grand piano. Along with his wife, Patricia, Ash greeted every guest.

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70US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (2CTue, 27 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

"I WOULD DO ANYTHING; IT HAD THAT HOLD ON ME."

Billy Lyons and Mike Cottingham said that deep down they were looking for someone to love them.

They wanted friends, appreciation and camaraderie. The pair wanted something to fill the void left by growing up in foster care without their biological parents.

Crystal meth seemed to be their answer, but its price was living on the streets, committing crimes and being sexually assaulted and robbed.

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71US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (20Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Ian Lister sat proudly at the kitchen table in a Reno halfway house one Friday night in February, digging in his pockets for a six-month coin from Narcotics Anonymous.

Earlier that night, he'd had a Coke while his buddy had a rum and Coke. Together they celebrated Lister's six months without methamphetamine.

"I've pretty much beaten the biggest part of what they call the trigger process," Lister, 26, said. "When I cashed my check they gave me a couple drink tokes, but I just handed them to my friend.

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72US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (3BSun, 25 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

1. EDUCATION 2. TREATMENT 3.PREVENTION

When a 12-year-old girl was caught by undercover detectives selling methamphetamine in downtown Reno in 2004, police realized that the drug had spread too far in their community.

"You don't just one day jump into drug dealing and know how to do it like she did on the first time," said Sgt. Chuck Kendricks, who headed the regional Street Enforcment Team before his retirement last year.

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73US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (17Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Burglars, robbers, rapists, carjackers, identity thieves and murderers -- criminals in the Truckee Meadows almost always have a meth addiction.

"Most of these criminals are involved in meth," said Lt. Ron Donnelly of Reno police. "Crime is the only way these cranksters make their living. Their whole life is built around using and getting meth, which is what drives them to crime.

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74US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (6CTue, 27 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

There is only one place in Washoe County that provides residential and out-patient services for pregnant, drug-addicted women and mothers.

And 70 percent of the 160 women who went through Reno's Step 2 program last year said methamphetamine was their drug of choice. About half have at least one child, 30 percent have two children, 12 percent have three and 9 percent have four children.

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75US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (5CTue, 27 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Dave Cox treats drivers high on methamphetamine cautiously.

"One accusatory word out of my mouth and he realizes, 'Uh oh, he knows,' and he becomes violent," Cox said. "And we have a belt full of tools we can use to gain compliance of them, but unfortunately with meth, they don't feel the pain. You can't manipulate joints and you can't pepper spray them."

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76US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (14Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

A 25-year-old felon in February had an appointment with probation officer Kara Kelly in Reno that included a drug test.

When Christopher Tallman was told he would be jailed because his urine tested positive for methamphetamine, he flew into a panicked rage. He lunged for the officer's handgun and the two fell into a violent scuffle that ended when the officer shot Tallman in the head and killed him.

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77US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (13Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

If anyone knows anything about regaining his life after decades of drug addiction and run-ins with the law, it's Mike Moran.

He has experienced a lot from the time he took his first hit of methamphetamine at 25 to when he was a 40-year-old sitting in the Washoe County Jail for stealing money from his employer to feed his meth habit.

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78US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (11Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Dentists Savita Hemrajani and Melinda Kuhn remember the first time they saw meth mouth.

Several years ago, the patients with "scooped out," severely decayed teeth began to appear.

Now, at the Health Access Washoe County dental clinic, which provides sliding-scale dental care, they see it every week.

"They tell you one tooth is hurting and they open their mouth and they're almost all decayed down to the gumline," Dr. Kuhn said. "Most of them end up losing their teeth at very young ages."

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79US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (9Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

During one night in February, detectives from the Carson Special Enforcement Team discovered nearly 1.5 pounds of methamphetamine worth almost $70,000 hidden in two shoeboxes at a North Roop Street apartment.

In April, they found 32-year-old Michael Coyner in possession of a meth lab he'd assembled in the garage of his parents' Diamond Avenue home.

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80US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (4Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Steve Finnell found a glass drug pipe in his moody 15-year-old daughter Lexi's bedroom.

He confronted Lexi and her friends.

She said it wasn't hers. It belonged to another friend. She just put it in her drawer after the group took it away from their friend.

"You didn't want to think your child was doing that," Steve Finnell said.

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81US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (18Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Instead of worrying about their upcoming biology test or if their latest crush likes them, Washoe County adolescent methamphetamine addicts are meeting with probation officers, urinating into cups for mandatory drug testing and having to prove to their parents that they can be trusted again.

Nice childhood, huh?

Many teen addicts run away and live on the streets, or with strangers or older meth addicts. Others end up sexually assaulted or robbed. They drop out of school.

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82US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (6Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

For the last four years, Lyon County has been the fastest-growing county in Nevada.

It was also recently ranked second in the nation for per-capita growth for counties with populations of 10,000 or more. The population grew 34 percent from 2000 to 2005, when the number of residents exceeded 52,000.

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83US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (2Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

'CRYSTAL METH IS ... AN OBSESSION'

Note: Only first names are used for participants in Crystal Meth Anonymous because participants in 12-step programs use anonymity as part of their recovery.

The ceiling fan is whirling and the concrete floor is dirty and scuffed.

Sobriety creeds have been scratched on the walls of the 12-Step Club on Reno's Alvaro Street. A coffee pot is nearby.

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84US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (7Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

The euphoric high a methamphetamine user feels is about 12 times as intense as having sex.

Meth triggers a spike in dopamine -- a brain chemical that allows humans to feel pleasure -- that is four times greater than cocaine. That effect makes methamphetamine highly addictive and can permanently alter brain chemistry.

"This drug makes the brain change in ways that are hard to undo," said Dr. Melissa Piasecki, an addiction specialist at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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85US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (10Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

An April 7 post on a Reno Web site's "men seeking men" personals: "HORNED UP PNP-BOY-TOY LOOKING FOR WEEKEND FUN."

Click the link and there are pictures and more explanation. "I would like to PNP with you and do whatever your fantasies want ... I love to get real intense with a guy after we've gotten buzzed a bit."

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86US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (3Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:Newman, Alex Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

'I HAD A GOOD LIFE ... I JUST SNAPPED'

After 12 years of sobriety, Tom Ruble left an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting one Monday night in 1994, walked to downtown Honolulu and bought crack cocaine.

"Nothing in particular was going on," said Ruble, now a youth counselor in Reno. "I was busy. I had a good job, a nice life. I just snapped."

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87US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (5Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

AS MORE AND MORE WOMEN GO TO PRISON FOR METH, RESOURCES TO HELP THEM ARE STRETCHED

Barbara Pierson is no clinical substance abuse expert.

But she is a former "crack head" and alcoholic who's been sober for nearly a decade.

These days, she calls herself a wounded healer. Pierson has used her own money and opened two homes in Sparks for transitional housing for women battling substance abuse, many of whom are mothers with methamphetamine addictions.

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88US NV: Series: Meth - Shattering Lives In Northern Nevada (1Sat, 24 Jun 2006
Source:Reno Gazette-Journal (NV) Author:O'Malley, Jaclyn Area:Nevada Lines:Excerpt Added:06/30/2006

A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

'NIGHT AND DAY'

Eric Maki was working at a Reno fast food restaurant when suddenly, in the middle of his shift, something went wrong.

Tears began to stream down his face.

"I realized I had no car, I was in my 30s and I was flipping burgers at Wendy's," said Maki, now 38 and methamphetamine-free for the past three years. "A co-worker told me I needed to take a break. So I sat there eating chicken nuggets wondering what I was doing with my life."

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89 US NV: Editorial: It's Time To Enact New State Marijuana PolicyTue, 20 Jun 2006
Source:Lahontan Valley News (NV)          Area:Nevada Lines:74 Added:06/23/2006

Nevada voters will once again take up a marijuana ballot initiative this fall, an issue muddied in rhetoric from both sides. The Regulation of Marijuana Initiative will appear on ballots in November. It would allow those 21 years old and older to legally possess, use and transfer one ounce or less of marijuana. Penalties are also stiffened for those who drive under the influence of marijuana or sell it to minors. Use in public would be prohibited.

For a $1,000 annual license fee, state-licensed retailers would be able to sell marijuana. An excise tax of $45 per ounce would be collected by the state from wholesalers. Sales tax would be the same as other products. Half of the profits from related licensing fees and taxes would be used for substance abuse treatment and education.

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90 US NV: LTE: Marijuana Piece Lacked Reasoning, a Good SolutionFri, 23 Jun 2006
Source:Lahontan Valley News (NV) Author:Hayne, Jayson Area:Nevada Lines:37 Added:06/23/2006

I have just read online the editorial from Tuesday, which contains the following:

"In a state where prostitution is legal in certain counties, bars are not required to close and children can legally possess and use tobacco, objections to marijuana legalization on a moral basis seem hypocritical."

This kind of reasoning is why our society has these issues in the first place. That is akin to using the rationale that because there aren't enough police to pull over every speeder on the highway, that we should just let people speed.

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91 US NV: PUB LTE: Perkins A Gateway Drug To Stupidity (1 Of 2)Fri, 09 Jun 2006
Source:Las Vegas City Life (NV) Author:Duran, Scott Area:Nevada Lines:38 Added:06/10/2006

Of course Chief Perkins is strongly against decriminalizing marijuana - -- that's his business. And business is good.

You know what's ironic? That the two groups most opposed to the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana initiative are cops and drug dealers (it's a Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner kinda thing between those two).

Stuck in the middle are the people who don't have crime on their minds, and are the ones paying for it all. Meanwhile, our government turns a blind eye to the poppy fields in Afghanistan, and pledges to cut meth use by 15 percent (aim low -- shoot lower!) to focus on outlawing hemp. Even though the original drafts of the Constitution were written on hemp paper! If the current administration had its way, our Founding Fathers would be considered drug dealers.

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92 US NV: PUB LTE: Perkins A Gateway Drug To Stupidity (2 Of 2)Fri, 09 Jun 2006
Source:Las Vegas City Life (NV) Author:Full, Robb Witmer Area:Nevada Lines:53 Added:06/10/2006

Richard Perkins tells us that "every law enforcement group in Nevada strongly opposes the ballot measure" to tax and regulate marijuana, as though their positions of authority are simply enough to induce the population. No need to bother with such trivials as facts or realities ["Do NOT rock the ganja!," Your Opinion, May 25].

I believe Perkins when he says that he has "rarely met a heroin, crack or meth addict who didn't start with marijuana." But this is anecdotal nonsense meant to conjure up the mystical "gateway drug" that leads all down the path to coke parties and premarital sex.

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93 US NV: PUB LTE: Anti-Pot Perkins Must Be HighFri, 02 Jun 2006
Source:Las Vegas City Life (NV) Author:Killen, Patrick Area:Nevada Lines:78 Added:06/04/2006

In Speaker of the Nevada Assembly/Henderson Police Chief Richard Perkins' recent column in CityLife [ "Do NOT rock the ganga!," Your Opinion, May 25], Perkins expresses some remarkably hostile sentiments in criticizing the initiative to tax and regulate marijuana in Nevada. He even tries to distract readers with baseless attacks and outright lies about both the initiative and our campaign manager, Neal Levine.

First and foremost, Perkins' personal attacks on Neal Levine are unwarranted. I know Neal and work with him every day. He doesn't smoke marijuana, and he's a devoted husband and father. He's sacrificing and working ungodly hours in support of the initiative. Like many, he recognizes that the war on marijuana is a miserable and expensive policy failure, and he's working hard to promote commonsense alternatives. Unfortunately, it appears Perkins doesn't know how to disagree without being disagreeable.

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94 US NV: Series: I'm RaquelSat, 20 May 2006
Source:Nevada Appeal (Carson City, NV) Author:Vance, Teri Area:Nevada Lines:213 Added:05/20/2006

Everything has to change.

From the clothes she wears to the food she eats, even when she uses the restroom - it is all dictated by counselors at the center.

They tell her what to talk about and correct the way she walks.

In return, she learns how to understand her feelings, to recognize what thoughts lead to which behaviors.

Before she leaves on June 27, she makes a list of positive peers and those who will be destructive.

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95 US NV: Series: 'Why Can't They Just Let Me Get High?'Fri, 19 May 2006
Source:Nevada Appeal (Carson City, NV) Author:Vance, Teri Area:Nevada Lines:309 Added:05/19/2006

'WHY CAN'T THEY JUST LET ME GET HIGH?'

Editor's note Carson City has identified the battle with methamphetamine as its No. 1 priority. Throughout the year, the Nevada Appeal will run stories highlighting addicts' struggles, as well as the struggles of family, friends and the community.

This is the second installment of a three-part series which follows a girl through three years, beginning with her addiction to heroin and cocaine in Dallas and following her through her transition to Carson City and introduction to methamphetamine.

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96 US NV: PUB LTE: DARE MeFri, 31 Mar 2006
Source:Pahrump Valley Times (NV) Author:Sharpe, Robert Area:Nevada Lines:50 Added:03/31/2006

Good intentions are no substitute for effective drug education. Independent evaluations of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) have found the program to be either ineffective or counterproductive. The scare tactics used do more harm than good. Students who realize they've been lied to about marijuana may make the mistake of assuming that harder drugs like methamphetamine are relatively harmless as well. This is a recipe for disaster. Drug education programs must be reality-based or they may backfire when kids are inevitably exposed to drug use among their peers.

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97 US NV: Parents Learn How To Keep Kids SafeFri, 17 Mar 2006
Source:North Lake Tahoe Bonanza (NV) Author:Hickson, Patricia Area:Nevada Lines:104 Added:03/20/2006

In 2005, more than 11 percent of Washoe County high school students said they experimented with marijuana by the time they were 13, according to a recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey published by the county. This statistic was up 3 percent from 2003 when only 9 percent of 13-year-olds said that had tried marijuana.

"This is a reason for concern, if not alarm - which is why we are here tonight," said Steven Boyd, a drug and alcohol counselor with Bristlecone Family Resources to parents who had gathered at the IHS theater Wednesday night for a drug awareness presentation.

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98 US NV: Marijuana Petitioners Call The Law A 'Miserable Failure'Wed, 22 Feb 2006
Source:North Lake Tahoe Bonanza (NV) Author:Dornan, Geoff Area:Nevada Lines:80 Added:02/23/2006

CARSON CITY - The head of the committee calling for legalization of marijuana in Nevada says the group does not support use of the drug but rather believes the current prohibition is bad policy and "a miserable failure."

Neal Levine, of the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, said instead of banning pot, the proposed statute on Nevada's 2006 ballot would set up a system of manufacture and sales for small amounts of marijuana in Nevada. It would allow possession and use of an ounce or less of marijuana by adults in their own homes but would double the penalties for selling to minors and prohibit use by those under 21. It would also provide for creation and licensing of retail stores to sell small amounts of pot and tax those sales. Half the revenue would go to the state treasury and the other half to drug and alcohol programs.

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99 US NV: Marijuana Petitioners Call the Current Law a 'Miserable Failure'Mon, 20 Feb 2006
Source:Tahoe Daily Tribune (South Lake Tahoe, CA) Author:Dornan, Geoff Area:Nevada Lines:114 Added:02/20/2006

CARSON CITY - The head of the committee calling for legalization of marijuana in Nevada says the group does not support use of the drug but rather believes the current prohibition is bad policy and "a miserable failure."

Neal Levine, of the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, said instead of banning pot, the proposed statute on Nevada's 2006 ballot would set up a system of manufacture and sales for small amounts of marijuana in Nevada. It would allow possession and use of an ounce or less of marijuana by adults in their own homes but would double the penalties for selling to minors and prohibit use by those under 21. It would also provide for creation and licensing of retail stores to sell small amounts of pot and tax those sales. Half the revenue would go to the state treasury and the other half to drug and alcohol programs.

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100 US NV: Editorial: Just ThinkThu, 16 Feb 2006
Source:Reno News & Review (NV)          Area:Nevada Lines:78 Added:02/16/2006

There is little doubt that the original intent of Nevada's initiatives and referendum process has been perverted by politicians and monied interests.

This process was created in the first half of the 20th century to help common citizens reform their government, which at that time was characterized by corruption, business influence and cronyism.

Last week, as outlined in our news story ("Just say no," Jan. 26), the Nevada Taxpayers Association found technical problems with the language of some of the initiatives for November's election and has taken a stand on the broader issue of over-use of these processes.

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