What Is the Number One Meth State?

Question by austin s: what is the number one meth state?
is it montana?

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Answer by I am the DUDE OF LIFE
i think oregon or washington state b/c of all the forest/wooded areas that are hard for law enforcement to get to

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6 Responses to What Is the Number One Meth State?

  • TMyers says:

    I think it is Hawaii, if not Hawaii is way up there on the list, with Washington right behind it.

    http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Oct/12/ln/ln02a.html

  • hiddenstallion says:

    im almost certain its missouri

  • Jasmine says:

    West coast, probably california. Ok wait, Washington is up on that list. When I was there they called it the meth capital.

  • Mr. Goodhi © says:

    Kentucky…

  • globular says:

    Nevada

    Montana is second

    Banner image for The NSDUH (National Survey on Drug Use and Health) Report
    Issue 37 2006
    State Estimates of Past Year Methamphetamine Use
    In Brief

    * Rates of past year methamphetamine use among persons aged 12 or older were among the highest in Nevada (2.0 percent), Montana (1.5 percent), and Wyoming (1.5 percent), and among the lowest in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York (approximately 0.1 percent)

    * Young adults aged 18 to 25 were more likely to use methamphetamine in the past year (1.6 percent) than youths aged 12 to 17 (0.7 percent) and adults aged 26 or older (0.4 percent)

    * Rates of past year methamphetamine use among young adults aged 18 to 25 were among the highest in Wyoming (4.6 percent), Arkansas (4.4 percent), Minnesota (3.8 percent), and Nevada (3.8 percent), and among the lowest in New York (0.3 percent), Connecticut (0.4 percent), and Vermont (0.4 percent)

    In the United States, methamphetamine abuse and trafficking have been spreading eastward over the past decade, and the number of methamphetamine laboratories seized by U.S. law enforcement agencies increased 25 percent between 2001 and 2004.1 The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) asks respondents aged 12 or older to report on their past year use of methamphetamine. This report presents estimates of past year methamphetamine use among persons aged 12 or older in each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia.2 All findings presented in this report are annual averages based on combined 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 NSDUH data.3 State estimates were rank ordered from highest to lowest and divided into quintiles (fifths). States with the highest estimates were assigned to the top quintile, and States with the lowest estimates were assigned to the bottom quintile.4
    State Estimates of Past Year Methamphetamine Use

    In 2002-2005, an estimated 1.4 million persons (0.6 percent of the total population) aged 12 or older used methamphetamine in the past year. Rates of past year methamphetamine use were among the highest in Nevada (2.0 percent), Montana (1.5 percent), and Wyoming (1.5 percent), and among the lowest in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York (approximately 0.1 percent).

  • <&Who am I to say&> says:

    definitely minnesota

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