What does methamphetamine look like?
• Typically meth is a white powder that easily dissolves in water. • Another form of meth, in clear chunky crystals, called crystal meth, or ice. • Meth can also be in the form of small, brightly colored tablets. The pills are often called by their Thai name, yaba. What are the methods of usage? • Injecting • Snorting • Smoking • Oral ingestion 2 Who uses methamphetamine and amphetamines? • During 2000, 4% of the U.S. population reported trying methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.3 • Abuse is concentrated in the western, southwestern, and midwestern United States. How do methamphetamine and amphetamines get to the United States? • Clandestine laboratories in California and Mexico are the primary sources of supply for methamphetamine available in the United States. • Domestic labs that produce methamphetamine are dependent on supplies of the precursor chemical pseudoephedrine, which is sometimes diverted from legitimate sources. It is smuggled from Canada, and to a lesser ex
