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Crime writer, recovering addicts discuss how to fight methamphetamine addiction
Reporter Scott Thomas Anderson speaks at the Lodi Public Library about methamphetamine addiction on Sunday, July 1, 2012. Anderson is the author of a book titled "Shadow People: How Meth-driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America."
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Crime writer, recovering addicts discuss how to fight methamphetamine addiction
Scott Thomas Anderson, left, Stacy Wells, center, and Matthew Learned speak about methamphetamine addiction at the Lodi Public Library on Sunday, July 1, 2012.
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Crime writer, recovering addicts discuss how to fight methamphetamine addiction
Matthew Learned speaks about kicking his addiction to alcohol and meth, how it affected his life and his road to recovery at the Lodi Public Library on Sunday, July 1, 2012.
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Crime writer, recovering addicts discuss how to fight methamphetamine addiction
Reporter Scott Thomas Anderson speaks at the Lodi Public Library about methamphetamine addiction on Sunday, July 1, 2012. Anderson is the author of a book titled "Shadow People: How Meth-driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America."
- More about ‘shadow people’
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In April 2010, crime reporter Scott Thomas Anderson received a grant from the Phillips Foundation in Washington, D.C. to study the relationship between methamphetamine addiction and crime.
He spent 18 months between May 2010 and October 2011 working with law enforcement agencies, partnering with officers on night patrols, accompanying detectives on warrant searches and probation sweeps, observing SWAT operations and spending hundreds of hours with attorneys and victims' advocates.
"Shadow People: How Meth-Driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America" was the result of Anderson's efforts. It is available on Amazon.com.
- Methamphetamine facts
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Methamphetamine is a central nervous system stimulant drug that is similar in structure to amphetamine.
Due to its high potential for abuse, methamphetamine is available only through a prescription that cannot be refilled.
Although methamphetamine can be prescribed by a doctor, its medical uses are limited, and the doses that are prescribed are much lower than those typically abused.
Most of the methamphetamine abused in this country comes from foreign or domestic superlabs, although it can also be made in small, illegal laboratories.
- The effects of methamphetamine
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Methamphetamine increases the release and blocks the uptake of the brain chemical (or neurotransmitter) dopamine, leading to high levels of the chemical in the brain — a common mechanism of action for most drugs of abuse.
Dopamine is involved in reward, motivation, the experience of pleasure and motor function. Methamphetamine's ability to release dopamine rapidly in reward regions of the brain produces the intense euphoria, or "rush," that many users feel after snorting, smoking or injecting the drug.
Chronic methamphetamine abuse significantly changes how the brain functions. Non-invasive human brain imaging studies have shown alterations in the activity of the dopamine system that are associated with reduced motor skills and impaired verbal learning.
How methamphetamine is abused
Methamphetamine is a white, odorless, bitter-tasting crystalline powder that easily dissolves in water or alcohol and is taken orally, intranasally (snorting the powder), by needle injection, or by smoking.
— Source: www.drugabuse.gov
Posted: Monday, July 2, 2012 12:00 am
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Updated: 6:50 am, Mon Jul 2, 2012.
Crime writer, recovering addicts discuss how to fight methamphetamine addiction
By Katie Nelson/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
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It is the easiest drug to get addicted to. It is the hardest addiction to break.
So goes the vicious cycle of methamphetamine use, a drug created using basic household cleaning products that leads to a twisted life of crime and horror, as detailed in reporter Scott Thomas Anderson's new book "Shadow People: How Meth-driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America."
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