Posted on 01/20/2006 12:23:01 PM PST by JTN
Another bogus survey from the National Association of Counties.
The dukes of deception who run the National Association of Counties are insulting your intelligence once again with a half-cocked "survey" about the methamphetamine menace.
Now, before I commence, let me assert that I know all about the dangers—and the pleasures, such as they are—of methamphetamine. While correspondence from readers detailing their personal meth sufferings or those of a family member will cause my Gmail inbox to swell, not even the most horrific testimonial will persuade me to recant what I'm about to write.
Thank you.
The survey in question, titled "The Effect of Meth Abuse on Hospital Emergency Rooms" (PDF), prompted respectful headlines from newspapers this week when assignment desks everywhere should have round-filed it: "Hospitals Say Meth Cases Are Rising, and Hurt Care" (New York Times); "Meth cases put strain on ERs" (USA Today); "Meth causes more hospital visits than any other drug" (Salt Lake Tribune); and "Meth strains hospitals in Indiana: Emergency rooms across Midwest, nation report rising caseload" (Indianapolis Star). The NBC Evening News gave it the up-close and personal treatment of "Brian Williams: Plastic Honky Zombie or Midwestern Meth Head?" Just kidding. The headline listed on Nexis for the story is "Meth addicts drain on emergency rooms."
The headlines give no sense of the NACo survey's narrowness. You've got to read into the second or third paragraph of each story—or deeper—to learn that NACo surveyed only county public hospitals or regional hospital emergency rooms, and that the survey firm they hired questioned only 200 institutions. Upon these data the survey establishes the finding—if you want to call it that—of a 73 percent increase in meth-related visits over the last five years.
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I wish I had a movie from the girl's ten years. I bet there was some wild shit happened.
This relates to the article how?
Meth kills. Meth destroys.
Any questions?
M e t h a i n ' t h e a t h f o o dI can type slower if needed.
No kidding. This relates to the article how?
For all I know, that last one is of her in the morgue.
But it can affect one's spelling.
Interesting article. I also read the one about "meth mouth." Did I understand correctly that there can be such thing as meth mouth, but its not caused by the harsh chemicals as many people claim?
that series of (obviously police mogshots) pics impacts like no stupid PSA I've ever seen! (this is your (eggs frying) brain on drugs nonsense).
Meth is bad, mmmmkay? So complete and total bullsh*t statistics are justified, especially if they bring more Federal funding.
The article isn't so much about meth itself, but about a survey of hospitals on the level of meth related visits they are seeing. If anyone wants to critique the article, I would think they would want to address that.
The statement above relates to the article how?
Conduct a flawed study that shows meth problems are on the rise, get more funding to "fight" the problem, go to some seminars in Hawaii to learn how to fight the problem, fix some of the flaws in the study so usage goes down, then rinse and repeat.
Nice work if you can get it.
Ha! Not likely.
Could this photo series also depict the effects of voting Democrat over a ten year period?
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