A startling map of the United States showing the number of meth lab incidents per state shows the Midwest leading the pack with Missouri, Tennessee, Indiana topping 1,000 per year each which looks to be more than all of the states west of the Rocky Mountains combined.
It is also worth noting that Vanderburgh County has more instances that most of the states.
Source for Map: Huffington Post
I understand meth is a horrible addiction no matter where it is .
comparing our tri-state with the rest of the nation where do we
stand with hard opiate drugs (heroin ,oxy,lortab ,) addictive crap
You think meth is not addictive?
Bottom line: Evansville is the meth-ridden, fat, miserable, “Turds in the Street Capital” of the US, but we are going to have a four-star hotel in the stagnant downtown.
I hope we will be the home of a great, state-of-the-art Medical School, too. The chances are we will be located in the county abutting that school, though. It seems like the Mayor is only interested in developing the downtown. We can only hope that the board of the Medical School sees fit to put it in this county. Where are you, County Commissioners? We need you!
EKB: Developing a plan that would distribute the student populations to locations best situated for the funding adaptations required by most medical studies students would be the most viable answer.
I think if that was the planning and the throughput infrastructure was improved to support all the said locations per studies focus,the whole county would benefit with some altitude moving forward. Center,East Northwest. All have available space and infrastructure needs for development forward.
As a nurse yourself you know what it takes to set out on that career path.
Not every medical student has input funding for waste on amenities so to speak.
One thing for sure as I have been working on the Climate change issues and clean water management the effect of having a advanced system,sensed and controlled as per actual conditions does offer an available method to absolutely define and locate system contamination to the finite element.
That could be preventative in measure to control accidental toxic/organic/biological releases to a recovery basin.
These technologies are cloud controlled by operational centers at a preferred location such as a blending of a S/W.D.,or an district emergency management complex build too sense,locate and isolate/control releases.
That also would bring toxins developed during the manufacture of and use of any unlicensed medications or substances under the scope,real time,just like any other unwanted discharge to the system or locations atmospheric signature.
The technology is present to do this when applied,thinking that might just defer meth production and use in any given area that has such an system in use.
scientia est potentia
knowledge is power.
non planudite modo pecuniam jacite !
don’t applaud just throw money !
I agree that wherever it lands, the school will be a great addition to the community. I am guilty of having an emotion on the subject that makes me want to see it in Vanderburg County, and I don’t want the Mayor’s zeal to put it downtown botch the whole thing.
Btw, I never practiced nursing. I just went to Nursing School in my mid-fifties on a lark, to deal with having an “empty nest.” Just wanted to prove to myself you can teach an old dog new tricks. My first education and work background is in social service delivery and designing polls.
EKB: The idea of retirement is a ever changing field of endeavor these days, I receive allot of data from retired individuals whom just want to stay actively involved with new activities and career fields,To some its a new horizon to entertain the mind usefully.
I have a friend whom sends me a inspirational story about retirement everyday.
Today the story was about retired a nurse,no kidding.
It seems at age 79 she was bored and wanted some adventure.
She was a survivor of both breast and lung cancer.
She went on an dog sledding vacation to the arctic and found out no other Black woman had ever been to the north pole.
Well, she said “wouldn’t be better to die doing something rather than sitting in an office somewhere”
Barbara Hillary, age 79, she made it to the North pole in 2007 and the SOUTH POLE in 2011! 😉
O gosh yes I know it is
I’m just curious if our high meth rate addictions
Is replacing heroin addictions like they have in
NYC or LA
some junkies are meth heads and some do coke and or smack
There all the poisonous
EKB: The map is probably based on actual lab incident locations, using your powers of observation and the numbers through the polling experience,What would you think of a theory that the “overall Meth use and addiction” is not very well represented by the lab incident bust numbers?
What I see is the lower lab incident site bust states seem to to be the ones more open sourcing for illegal importation of the drug. Geographical location to borders access.
Cost and accessibility seems to drive those numbers to me.
Show me the treatment numbers and I might see the overall picture.
Area for the worst meth problems,that map “Not so much”. For isolating the use and manufacture attempts maybe.
Considering that meth is often home made for personal use, I think the “bust” numbers may well be indicative of its use and addiction. I really don’t know much about how much of it is made for “export”, but from the patients I have dealt with that are in treatment for addiction to it, it seems to me that the bulk of it is used by those who make it.
The problem with treatment numbers is that, while treatment availability is scarce everywhere, in a good many places it is non-existent. I don’t think any good conclusions can be drawn from those numbers because of that.
It is hard to reach any valid conclusions, because so much of the information available is incomplete. Interesting theory, though.
I,m thinking the trend is that the border patrol has seen the shift by the cartels to meth gaining more on the other legacy type drugs.
Something I read about the Texas,New Mexico border areas.
The Nat/geo series has done some coverage on the subject. More of it now I guess. Really the harder we try to regulate the ingredients involved the more market those cartels are going to find and go after.
The entire “War on Drugs” continues to feed the cartels. The drug lords are always looking to expand their markets, like any successful business should. We really have to change our approach to this problem, but we have already spent too much “blood and treasure” on that war.
I am going to check to see if I can access the Nat/geo series on Netflix. Thanks for the information.
EKB; The Nat/Geo series is the “border wars” selection. It might be available on neflix,however they do offer the series for purchase on the Nat/Geo home page. Scroll over to “television” and you can scroll to selections of topics.
There is a interesting report on the problem in the Philly/Pittsburgh areas, that also kind of supports the importation theory.
If interested look up, or search the 2010 article By free lance author Christene Dell’Amore on fresh water contamination studies,concerning drugs and everyday spices in the water systems around the world and the U.S. relate that to the Ohio river basin……
Her name is funny she must love her dell. 🙂
Really though, she has written some pretty good stuff on many subjects over the years,”worth keeping up with”.
Subjects such as the clean water situation are the prime reasoning behind the science involved to locate and control such contamination moving forward. Advanced Water/Sewer systems are going to be the normal when standards are applied moving forward.
Finding solutions and control with innovation is the best approach,creates good jobs in the Bio-medical field and the technical industries that support the applications as the country proceeds forward.
I could post this on the Todays “Is it true” too, It really is the same overall subject focus by relationship of solutions…..
How about a link back to the original source?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/07/meth-states_n_4057372.html
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