ALBANY -- With 42 percent of child endangerment cases and 43 percent of federal convictions in Georgia involving methamphetamine use, officials say it is time to attack the problem on a regional level.

That message came to Albany on Wednesday.

The Georgia Meth Project, in partnership with Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital and the Dougherty County School System, hosted a community forum at Phoebe Northwest Wednesday to educate the public on the dangers of meth use -- and to get more area volunteers on board the prevention effort.

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