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stop meth making meds
● 5/20 SC: Eyeing
Oregon for solution to meth lab explosion The State MORE NEWS, EDITORIALS, AND OP
EDS INFORMATION, REPORTS, POSITION PAPERS, TESTIMONY ● Position paper: Allergy
& Asthma Network - Mothers of Asthmatics (pdf)
(32kb) INFORMATION
FROM STATES THAT HAVE ENACTED LEGISLATION
GRAPHS AND CARTOONS FROM THE MEDIA ● Graphs -
Comparing meth lab trends in Missouri, Kentucky, and Oregon: ● Graph -
Pseudoephedrine purchased from Tulsa Oklahoma pharmacies: ● Graph -
Attempted pseudoephedrine tablet purchases in Oklahoma: ● Graph - Indiana
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PERSONAL
NOTE FROM THE OADEC PRESIDENT
March
2010 The other
day I finished yet another presentation about meth and pseudoephedrine
control, when a student asked me a simple question: What got me started - why
so much passion about this issue? It was not the first time I've been
asked that question. The answer is always the same, as it is for many
of my colleagues: Lots of reasons, some family and personal, but number one
is drug endangered children. You see, in
1976, we let a Genie out of a bottle. We moved pseudoephedrine from a
prescription drug to over-the-counter. Ever since, we've been putting band-aids on the situation, while meth labs blow up and
catch fire, lives and families are destroyed, neighborhoods devastated, our
environment poisoned and, most tragically, drug endangered children suffer,
or worse. Yes, I realize it is a sacrifice to return pseudoephedrine to
a prescription drug and put the Genie back in the bottle. During my
drive home from the presentation, I thought of how best to explain the
passion that many of us feel about this issue. Then I remembered a poem
written by a friend and colleague, Ron Mullins, a retired career law
enforcement officer and the first National DEC Training Coordinator.
Ron read the poem at the closing of the Inaugural National DEC Conference
held in June of 2004. The poem was written in memory of Bobby, a
severely neglected young boy who was found and removed from a meth lab home
in New Mexico by Ron's team. Despite valiant efforts by hospital staff,
Bobby died from severe neglect not long after being rescued. With Ron's
permission, I posted the poem on this website many years ago when Oregon was
still having around 500 meth lab incidents a year. I removed it when
Oregon got rid of most of its meth labs. However, I
decided to repost it here, in order to help others understand why so many of
us from around our nation are so passionate about this issue: "Angels In
Black" by Ron Mullins
By the way, the photos in the poem are from Colorado, where they became a
well-recognized symbol of DEC in the Colorado media. Rob
Bovett Perseverate
in pugna
! Illegitimi non carborundum !
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