[Tippiechick]

Tennessee is HUGE in meth lab numbers. You can tell if someone is using meth. They are super skinny, smell AWFUL, and have lesion type acne sores on their face and body... There's a limit on how much pseudophedrine-type medication here as well.

Meth is really bad. Whatever the fumes hit becomes toxic. If a child is removed from a meth lab-home they can't take ANYTHING from the home. They have to even get rid of their clothing they are wearing. And, it is VERY easy to cause explosions from making meth. An apartment complex here in town had to be demolished after a meth lab exploded and caught the complex on fire.

It's a huge problem here where everyone knows everyone else's business. I can only imagine what it would be like in a highly populated area such as NY where it seems as if no pays attenion to what anyone else does.

ETA: As I was watching the news, they did a story on meth burns. The Vanderbilt Burn Center in Nashville sees at least 2 patients a week for very severe meth burns.