Troubled Teens Resources

Here is a follow up to yesterdays post about Mexican Drug cartels funneling their inventory of meth into American Indian reservations and the escalating devastation and desperation it has wrought. I ran into an additional piece that goes further into describing the nature of the beast that the global drug market has become.

It is a story that teens at risk hear little enough about. Teen age drug abuse has been given a patina of excitement and allure thanks to Hollywood and media. Rap stars engage in drive-by shootings and troubled teenagers admire them. If only life were as slick as a video. But somehow I don’t think the meth ravaged teens in reservations now awash in a tsunami of Mexican meth would be impressed with rap’s glitter thugs. They have met the real enemy.

“… Zhenli Ye Gon, who was arrested in Maryland last week following the discovery of $205 million of alleged drug money in his house in Mexico City, underscores how the same process of global sourcing that ripped apart the integrated industries of the 20th century, replacing them with networks of production scattered around the globe, is reconfiguring the drug trade, too.

Ye Gon, who was born in Shanghai…is accused of illegally importing into Mexico tons of pseudoephedrine and other chemicals from China and other countries to supply methamphetamine labs run by Mexican drug cartels in Mexico and American border states.
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The new Mexican-made drug has virtually replaced American homegrown meth…Seizures of imported meth along the southwest border increased from 2,706 pounds in 2003 to 4,346 pounds in 2005.”

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