Meth Epidemic

Crank. Drano. Go-Fast. Grimace. Hydro. Stovetop. Ice.

Methamphetamine has many slang names but no matter what you call the drug, it has been showing up across Lake County in ways that concern law enforcement officials and social service workers more and more each day.

Manufactured mostly out of common, but toxic, household chemicals, the stimulant is coming to be known as an epidemic of rural drug use. Cooking meth has become an increasingly familiar problem in small-town America.

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