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Just Say No

Meth is the worst drug. Only one in six gets clean and stays clean. Much is
written about it, but no one has mercy or compassion for those addicted to
it ("Meth Mess," The Street, September 4). No one offers any solution or
explanation of how meth affects a person. They label them all losers. Those
losers might not have been losers before meth and maybe they won't be after
meth. There are people out here trying to do something different besides
labeling people. Trying to turn the tide of our country's failed drug war
and our current incarceration frenzy. I have more than six years clean of
meth and I'm not a loser.

Marcella Perrine, Gilbert