Hard News: From Zero: The Meth Episode
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The episode of the From Zero podcast published today looks at the state of things with methamphetamine. It finds a widespread belief that the official statistics – which have meth use at just over 1% of the population, half what it was at peak – are missing something. That there's a problem placing severe strain on treatment resources and driving a change of approach from the police.
Since we finished the episode, the latest Annual Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring Report has been published, and shows increases in both use and availability of meth:
... the proportion of detainees who had used methamphetamine…