Introduction Methamphetamines have become a national problem. It is having a devastating effect on county governments in many states. Methamphetamines are being massively produced in countries such as Mexico and have increasingly been filtering into the U. S. What was once a problem in the Western states is now becoming increasingly costly for the Middle West and East coast. For Minnesota counties, methamphetamine abuse causes legal, medical, environmental and social problems. Here in SW Minnesota …showed first 75 words of 990 total…

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