The Appeal-Democrat takes a hard look at Meth and the Yuba-Sutter area in this series:

MONDAY, 7/07/2008: Central Valley and Mexican labs supply local meth.
Sidebar: Fight against methamphetamine has evolved

TUESDAY, 7/08/2008: Yuba-Sutter anti-meth education efforts ramp up.
Sidebar: "Music over Meth" concert offers alternatives, stories from recovering meth users
Concert "Day After" followup story: Bands battle meth in the park

WEDNESDAY, 7/09/2008: How a Yuba City woman battled meth addiction and got her kids back.

OTHER LOCAL STORIES INVOLVING METHAMPHETAMINE:

TUESDAY, 07/29/08: Meth bust tells lifelong tale
A Marysville man was in a wheelchair and on oxygen after years of smoking methamphetamine when he was arrested early Monday for selling the drug. Narcotic agents said the 53-year old man "not only has destroyed his own life, he's destroyed the lives of others."

Click here to read almost 500 Appeal-Democrat stories about meth and how its use, sale and distribution have cost people their lives, freedom, safety, and loved ones.

You'll see how methamphetamine has put Yuba-Sutter taxpayers and citizens on the hook for criminal investigations, arrests, trials, imprisonment, health care and sometimes burials of people involved in meth cases.

Read how local families bear the grief and varied types of costs brought on by someone's methamphetamine use—inside their family, or by total strangers.

If you think Meth use in Yuba-Sutter can't somehow affect you, these stories may change your mind.

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