A single hit can keep someone high for as long as 12 hours. It's not surprising that in the last ten years, meth use has exploded.
In the US the drug hit the western states first and hardest. In O, nearly 10, 000 meth use are sought treatment in a single year, moving east for the drugs swept through farm states like N. 12, 000, 000 Americans say they've tried meth at least once. And it's just starting the penetrated large cities in the east.

Meth benemid recognizes no borders, its reach is global and growing. An estimated 26, 000, 000 worldwide use the drug.
In the dance clubs of London it's known as a party drug-Tina. While some South African use are hooked on a version called teeth.
Australians home to an estimated 70, 000 meth addicts. Back in Portland O, those who have seen meth take hold of the last 15 years, warned that the drug isn't just a passing phenomenon. It's some kids teeth into this community and it won't let go.

If people that use a meth are the people who committed the crimes of neighborhoods.

Any valuables in the car?

Officer Mike Crans works the meth beat for the Portland police department.
5, 6 years ago, when I walked to street, er, we don't see nearly as much meth as we see now, and as much people that are high on it, or affected by it, or crime that was driven by it.

Meth keeps Officer Crans busy, pulling cars over, checking people out. He's looking for telltale signs of meth use. Stolen goods, needles, false IDs. Meth use committed an estimated 85% of the property crimes and identity theft in O.

Now it's like the No. 1, the NO. 1 cause of crime. If you talk to people, somehow their lives have been affected by meth.

Is meth be a problem in this neighborhood?
Yes, it is. I mean that stuff is poison and is destroying everything, you know. . .
How often do you see these * are here?
Every morning, I mean, all the time, you know, they are just missed up because that poison that put in their bodies, you know, straight poison.

In Portland jails, one in four inmates tested positive for meth when arrested.

Your mind goes first, your mind is the first thing to go. It's on talking about things that don't uneven real, We start, you know same things eventually start hearing. . .
The more you use, the worse you gets, you lose control. You can not control this drug.