Montana Drug Abuse

All across the nation, there has and will always be a problem with drug abuse. Drug abuse is a very serious and ongoing difficulty that society is faced with daily. However, since drug abuse across the nation is such a broad subject with all the different drugs available, I would like to narrow it down to a more personal topic. In my home state of Montana, methamphetamines is constantly being distributed and abused. My stance is that we must work harder to put an end to this abuse in order to save Montana families and our businesses. Just last week, on one day alone, the Billings Gazette newspaper reported in three articles on women getting penalized for dealing meth. Statistics show that the numbers of crime rates going up are because
The Montana Meth project portrayed a documentary to the public which shows the general public how meth can trap a user in a never ending cycle of addiction. In the documentary one woman stated, "It's all you can think about, you don't have any other priorities in life. If you're doing this stuff, you don't have aspirations to be anything but a user. That's all you end up to be," (Montana Meth). In that same documentary a different user states, "People don't understand how we can get addicted to this but I feel so good right now, better than any sober person has ever felt in their entire life" (Montana
The Montana Meth Project was introduced a few years back to show real life cases of what happens when a person becomes hooked on this drug. From billboards on interstates, to ads on the radio, and even commercials on TV, this organization is trying to fight for a extremely important cause. Their advertisements are very powerful. While driving along an interstate you may not only see a billboard depicted like the one to the left, but also listen on the radio to an addicted teen talk about the horrible experiences that he or she have lived through. Drug abuse is a terrible addiction to get into, but meth is the worst of the worst. I have seen firsthand how meth can affect families and the Montana economy. This is why I have stated all of the information above to help prove my point that the meth usage and distribution in Montana needs to stop. If one state can make a difference then maybe it can start a chain reaction for the nation to turn this devastating trend