Rushing, Crashing, Dying: The Meth Epidemic – www.hrmvideo.com Program takes viewers on a tour of the disastrous consequences of methamphetamine abuse. Going beyond the health risks of this increasingly popular drug, recovering meth addicts describe damage to family relationships, burns and disfigurement from lab explosions, and the problems they face finding work or completing school. Beginning with a police raid on a lab, this documentary-style video/DVD interviews law enforcement authorities, hospital ER doctors, social workers, and recovered addicts and their families, to show the horrors of meth abuse. Viewers learn how meth destroys the brain and body of users, how meth lab toxins poison children living in and near the meth labs, how police, emergency services, and social services are overwhelmed by the epidemic. The wide path of destruction cut by meth abuse is vividly portrayed…the personal costs to meth addicts and to society…of unfulfilled dreams, destroyed lives, broken families and devastated communities.
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Those arrested were engaged in dealing of narcotics, including methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, Xanax and hydrocodone, detectives said. On Friday … The girls were between the ages of 7 and 12 when the alleged abuse occurred. Sedwick … Read more on Tbo.com
DCS says 73 kids died last year
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Summerville serves as co-chair of the state's Second Look Commission, which examines how DCS handled cases of severe child abuse. “This is just a calamity. Perhaps there's some reason behind some of … In one case, two children died inside the same … Read more on The Tennessean
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POTEAU – A LeFlore County jury found a man guilty Friday of child neglect and child sexual abuse and recommended a 245-year prison sentence, District Attorney Jeff Smith said. James Edward Haskin Jr., 62, of Monroe was convicted of three counts of … Read more on Tulsa World