While the opioid crisis takes the spotlight, prosecutors and
police say they also have been coming to grips with the devastating rebound of
meth, which is killing more people in America today than in the mid-2000s when
it was the national problem everyone was talking about.
Deaths related to stimulants — mostly meth — were up
nationwide by more than 250 percent from 2005 to 2015, according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
In Georgia, deaths involving meth have increased every year
since 2010, more than tripling from 65 in 2010 to 200-plus last year, data from
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says. And those numbers don’t even include
Gwinnett, Fulton, Cobb and DeKalb, where the data is tracked differently. But
Atlanta U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak says the metro area also is seeing an
alarming jump in the number of people using and a significant increase in
deaths, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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