NPR SHOW TO EXPLORE LOCAL METH PROBLEM

Half-hour Show Will Focus On Shawnee County.

Methamphetamine in Shawnee County will be the focus Tuesday of a program on
National Public Radio.

"All Things Considered" from NPR News will present a special half-hour,
format-breaking report examining the recent surge of methamphetamine use
and manufacture in the Midwest by focusing on Shawnee County.

The program will air at 3:36 and 5:36 p.m. on radio station KANU-FM 91.5
and at 5:36 p.m. on KCUR-FM 89.3.

Sources quoted in the report by senior host Robert Siegel include:

• A Topeka Correctional Facility inmate who discusses her longtime
addiction to meth.

• Shawnee County sheriff's deputies who discuss the work they do seizing
meth labs and investigating crimes linked to the drug.

• Assistant Shawnee County district attorneys who prosecute meth cases.

• Chemists who process meth lab evidence at a Kansas Bureau of
Investigation lab in Topeka.

• An undercover security officer at a Topeka Wal-Mart who has seen an
increase in the shoplifting of items that are available legally but can be
used to make meth.

• Victims in Shawnee County of repeated thefts of anhydrous ammonia, which
can be used to make the drug.