Reduction in Domestic Meth Production Might Have Boosted Addiction Levels
Closing the door on domestic methamphetamine production has led to the import of purer foreign meth, thereby addicting more users and drastically increasing treatment admissions while actual use has been mostly constant over the period between 1993 and 2004. During that same time period, methamphetamine treatment admissions increased from 28,000 to 150,000. Foreign produced meth has typically come in the smokable "ice" version which is purer, more addictive and more damaging than traditionally injected or inhaled forms of the drug.