| The war is on and no one is coming out to fight | | | | isn't one with a simple solution. You will hear |
| against it. No one seems to protest and few warriors | | | | conflicting stories surrounding meth. The media will |
| are taking up the cause. Parents are leaving their | | | | paint you a very vivid picture about |
| young and our youth can easily become the product | | | | methamphetamines one day and be forced to |
| of destruction. Families are waiting for the news they | | | | retract their statements the next but don't be fooled. |
| are certain to receive as hearts break into millions of | | | | There is a widespread and universal crisis on the |
| pieces. | | | | hands of community leaders and government officials |
| Lives are lost and will never return to any level of | | | | and they know it. |
| normalcy again while cities across the world pretend | | | | America is discovering that many of its citizens are |
| to put forth enough effort to satisfy an enraged but | | | | this country's own worst enemies. Government |
| scared public. The truth stands firm. There's no easy | | | | officials choose to turn the other cheek and look the |
| way to end the rampant spread of | | | | other way. It will remain this way until one of them |
| methamphetamines. | | | | or one of their own meet an untimely death because |
| Meth, speed, chalk; give it any name you want it's all | | | | they fall victim to a meth addict. Maybe they'll meet |
| the same. After all, this drug has become the drug of | | | | death when the delusions of a meth addict force |
| choice and its name isn't as important as what it is | | | | them into a head-on collision. Maybe, just maybe |
| doing to our friends, families, and communities. Meth | | | | someone will pay attention after someone else, |
| kills. It destroys lives. With methamphetamines, it isn't | | | | another innocent with the right political connections |
| if the addict will lose their battle with addiction, it is | | | | falls into death's trapdoor. Until then, families and |
| only a matter of when. It is a drug with a willful mind | | | | communities-you're on your own. No one cares about |
| and it intends to take the souls of many who | | | | your heartache and don't turn to law enforcement |
| experience its phenomenal power. It's the user's god | | | | for help. No one will be there to help. |
| of choice. | | | | Today, millions of people are at the mercy of the |
| The meth pipe is worshipped like an idol and the | | | | crazed lunatics that choose meth over everything |
| meth user will covet it more than family. Respect it | | | | else and put their drug at the forefront of their lives. |
| more than themselves and fight till the death just to | | | | The consequences are brutal because our nation is |
| find another fix. It is the reason many meth users | | | | under fire. Our enemy is a faceless drug that washes |
| rise in the morning and why even more of them | | | | through the body of many while taking over the |
| leave the house in the first place. Meth is alluring. It | | | | minds occupying the territory. |
| calls their name. | | | | It's time to take action. Today, it's time to insist on |
| When you hear about meth, you need to know the | | | | stiffer laws. It's time to take away the power from |
| facts behind the drug and you must realize this is the | | | | those who want you to feel powerless. It's time to |
| drug that can and will take many prisoners who will | | | | take back the lives that meth has destroyed and |
| never escape even if they wanted to do so. Make | | | | make sure the war this drug has started comes to |
| few mistakes about it, most do not want to live | | | | an abrupt end. However, no one can do it alone. |
| without meth in their lives once they've taken their | | | | Communities have to strike back and insist on |
| first hit or had their first taste of it. | | | | tougher penalties for those who use and those who |
| Regardless of what you will ever hear in the media | | | | make Crystal Methamphetamines. Until then, no one |
| or read about on your own, understand | | | | will be safe from the reach of the drug that |
| methamphetamine addiction is a real problem and it | | | | destroys, tortures, ruins, and defects-no one. |