Stop Meth

Methamphetamine is a dangerous and highly addictive drug that can kill. It’s more potent and longer lasting than other drugs, and it destroys its users. Meth is a complex challenge for law enforcement because both its production and its use can be deadly.

 

Meth is cheap and easy to make using common ingredients like cold medicine and household chemicals. Secret meth labs put neighbors at risk from fires, explosions, hazardous fumes, and toxic waste. Children live in as many as one fourth of the homes where meth is made and many suffer from abuse, neglect and exposure to dangerous chemicals.

Users can become hooked the first time they take meth, and the addiction is one of the most difficult to treat. People who take meth can become violent and paranoid, and the drug can cause heart attacks and death.

 

Attorney General Roy Cooper fought for tough new laws that have cut the number of meth labs in North Carolina dramatically. Cooper and SBI experts who bust meth labs pushed for stronger laws, to put criminals who make meth behind bars and to make it harder for criminals to get the drug’s key ingredient. Meth cooks who put children in danger or injure law enforcers or emergency responders face extra time in jail.

 

As homemade meth labs decline, the fight has turned to drug traffickers who import meth and crime into North Carolina. Attorney General Cooper is also working to educate people about how to spot a dangerous meth lab and keep people from getting addicted to meth.