Comments on: Tops in Meth http://blogkc.com/archives/2006/03/tops-in-meth/ A Weblog for Kansas City, Missouri. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Wife of Addict http://blogkc.com/archives/2006/03/tops-in-meth/comment-page-1/#comment-43960 Wife of Addict Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:42:13 +0000 http://blogkc.com/archives/2006/03/tops-in-meth/#comment-43960 I will say this, the reason Missouri is leading is because rehabilitation for addicts is typically a last option. My husband is an IV meth addict, currently incarcerated at WMCC. I was afraid he was going to die in my home, so I called the police as a last resort. When they came, he handed over the dope and asked for help. What the court system is trying to do now is simply throw him away, another statistic, 6 years for meth posession. In most cases, doing this, will do nothing in the fight against meth. The addict is released and will make it a priority to score another hit. The cycle starts all over. I will say this, the reason Missouri is leading is because rehabilitation for addicts is typically a last option.

My husband is an IV meth addict, currently incarcerated at WMCC. I was afraid he was going to die in my home, so I called the police as a last resort. When they came, he handed over the dope and asked for help.

What the court system is trying to do now is simply throw him away, another statistic, 6 years for meth posession.

In most cases, doing this, will do nothing in the fight against meth. The addict is released and will make it a priority to score another hit. The cycle starts all over.

]]> By: William M. Buchanan, III http://blogkc.com/archives/2006/03/tops-in-meth/comment-page-1/#comment-43588 William M. Buchanan, III Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:56:30 +0000 http://blogkc.com/archives/2006/03/tops-in-meth/#comment-43588 While I applaud Greg Reeves' posting of the report from which he gets his numbers, he unfortunately has perpetrated a fallacious assumption. While MO may have topped the nation in meth LAB seizures on a per capita basis. It is worth pointing out that not all meth labs are households. Not all meth households are labs. Greg's "analysis" ignores the various differences in law, enforcement, and expenditure from state to state. That was, in part, the point of the report. While I applaud Greg Reeves’ posting of the report from which he gets his numbers, he unfortunately has perpetrated a fallacious assumption. While MO may have topped the nation in meth LAB seizures on a per capita basis. It is worth pointing out that not all meth labs are households. Not all meth households are labs. Greg’s “analysis” ignores the various differences in law, enforcement, and expenditure from state to state. That was, in part, the point of the report.

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