July 17 2018

Surge In Meth Use In Colorado Complicates Opioid Recovery

Speed Kills Too! –

July 14, 2018 – Huddled at a computer screen at the Denver Recovery Group, counselor Melissa McConnell looks at the latest urinalysis results for her client, Sara Florence. Last fall, it lit up like a Christmas tree. Now it’s all clean. Florence says she stopped using heroin five months ago; she stopped using methamphetamine not long after that. “Shooting it, smoking it, snorting it,” Florence says. “It’s horrible, just made me feel like crap, you know. But I’d still did it. Just makes no sense, you know. It’s just really addicting.” Meth is particularly insidious, she says, because it’s cheap, readily available and “very common. Everybody does it.”

Full Story @ NPR.org

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