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Show Review: National Geographic "The World's Most Dangerous Drug: Methamphetamine"

Here at our treatment clinics, we periodically go back and forth on what is the more disturbing recent development we see in the field of addiction treatment - the epidemic of prescription drug abuse (and the accompanying "accidental deaths" like that of Heath Ledger earlier this year) or the incredible growth of crystal meth's popularity in the past 20 years. Nat Geo's excellent special entitled "The World's Most Dangerous Drug" brings the crystal meth epidemic to the forefront of our consciousness on this day. read more...