Four William Blount High School Students Learned About Meth Tuesday And Plan To Share Their Knowledge With Their School And Community. Tyler Hughes, freshman; Meghin Clark, freshman; Monica Malone, sophomore, and Tabby Stott, junior, represented William Blount and Blount County at the Meth Destroys Youth Leadership Summit in Nashville. Gov. Phil Bredesen, Blount County District Attorney General Mike Flynn, other district attorneys and 150 students gathered to talk about how they can raise awareness of the dangers of methamphetamine in their communities. [continues 451 words]
The Tennessee District Attorney General Conference is informing the state's workplaces about the horrible effects of methamphetamine. The Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the state Department of Labor are partnering with Tennessee's district attorneys in the Meth Destroys campaign. The purpose of the partnership is to provide information and resources to educate employers and employees on the dangers of meth in the workplace and the effect it is having on the economy. Information about meth and its effects will be distributed by the state chamber and labor department. Blount County District Attorney General Mike Flynn will be visiting local businesses and civic organizations to speak about the Meth Destroys campaign. [continues 166 words]
Meth is ugly. The pictures are too graphic to display. It is the one drug you cannot hide from other people because the bloody pits in your flesh are too obvious. Methamphetamine users feel like bugs are crawling under their skin, and they pick and scratch until all that is left are open sores -- but the bugs were never really there. Blount County District Attorney Mike Flynn described a poster of a meth user in Tennessee whose arms are covered in open wounds due to imaginary "meth bugs." [continues 786 words]
Innocent children are being burned and blistered by chemicals in the carpets they crawl on, the clothes they wear and the toys they play with. They are being taken away from their families to get them out of the methamphetamine labs being run in their homes. Meth is destroying families. It is straining the resources of Tennessee's medical and dental organizations. According to The Journal of the American Medical Association, trauma patients who use meth are likely to incur medical costs $4,000 higher than the general population. [continues 713 words]
