[Vision2020] a meth problem in Moscow?

[Saundra Lund]

I tend to agree.  I think I've mentioned here that my (very)
conservative brother is a corrections professional in the San
Francisco bay area, and we were recently talking about how many
of those incarcerated where he works are there because of
substance addictions.

He was lamenting the fact that due to cost, treatment often isn't
available to most people until they get into significant legal
trouble.  His opinion was that quality treatment should be
available on demand . . . he thinks early intervention for those
who want it is much more likely to be successful before people
become firmly entrenched in the criminal lifestyle that all too
often accompanies substance addiction.

It's not terribly often that we agree on big issues, but early
treatment is one.

I don't know about anyone else, but in my younger years, I knew
all too many young adults who recognized they had a problem with
alcohol and/or drugs but didn't have the financial means to get
real treatment.

On the original question (does Moscow have a meth problem?), that
seems to me to be a no-brainer:  yes, it does.  In our old
residential neighborhood (east Moscow:  east of Main, north of
the Troy Highway, west of Mountain View, and south of the high
school), a meth lab was busted across the street & about a
half-block down from our house.  Right in town!



FWIW,
Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID


On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:41 -0700, "Sunil Ramalingam"
<sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> wrote:

  It would make a lot more sense of me to put money into
  treatment. I think the rest is window dressing.
  Sunil
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