by Charley Carle

1st in the 50 states for Methamphetamine "most meth labs per capita in the United States"

Commendations to the Sandy Police Department for distributing a video featuring Wilford Brimley. He warns about the problem "we now have here in the Salt Lake Valley, in the state of Utah if you will, that's killen' our kids.Methamphetamine. Utah has been picked for some reason to be the headquarters of this deadly, poisonous, substance. Fact! - We have more meth labs in Utah than anywhere else in America.

• Fact! - We're number three in production of this awful substance
• Fact! - It's killen' your kids and it's happening right under your nose.

"It's not a inner city or even urban phenomenon. It occurs throughout society. It includes not just he highly populated areas across the Wasatch front but virtually any town in Utah." (Dr. Michael Crookston, Addiction Psychiatrist, Dayspring)

The video reports that the most common first usage is at age 13. The Red Flags of Behavior that are observed include :

• Change in friends
• Change in appearance (Baggy, dark clothes, piercing, make-up)
• Drop in grades
• Isolation
• Change in music
• Change in family relationships

Ogden Report

Captain Youngberg said the officers are plagued by the escalation of Meth. "We are running our pants off trying to do meth labs, shutting them down, picking up the glassware." ("Feed store busted in meth lab raid," Deseret News, Amy Joi Bryson, Saturday, March 06, 1999)

Personal and Public Dangers!

The chemical make-up and the affect to the physical and central nervous system are sad, repugnant and destructive!

CANCER & ADDICTION - "Meth labs started popping up like tulips in Spring. The trouble is, one sniff of the chemicals used to make meth could cause cancer, according to experts.the state recently received the dubious distinction of having the most meth labs per capita in the United States.Meth is said to be one of the most addictive drugs around." ("What You Don't Know Could Hurt You: The Drug Phenomenon Hits Utah," Debbie Dujanovic. Site sponsored by: Cynthia Hale, A Professional Law Corporation, Oquirrh Place Loft, Suite 321, 350 South 400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111)

SHERIFFS ON DUTY UNKNOWINGLY EXPOSED - "In 1996 during the service of a search warrant, in Sandy, Utah, several members of the Salt Lake County Sheriffs Department receive an exposure to an unknown chemical and require medical attention." BABY KILLED - "In 1996 Meth addicted mother neglects her baby and watches her addicted boyfriend kills the child for crying too much." SON BEHEADED - "In 1996 a father stabbed his 14 year old son an estimated 60 times before beheading him along Interstate 40, east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Suspect is under the influence of Methamphetamine." GIRLFRIEND SCALPED - "In Fremont, California, a 33 year old man, whileunder the influence of methamphetamine and rum, scalped his girlfriend with a kitchen knife. He accused her of thinking about an old boyfriend. The suspect was sentenced to life in prison." (Meth Causes for Concern, Utah Department of Public Safety, 11/02/99)

Sorceries and Drugs

The increase of violence, wild sex and dishonesty will approach new heights during the Great Tribulation! "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts" (Rev. 9:21). "SORCERIES" comes from the same Greek root as our word "PHARMACIES", alluding to DRUGS. In the times of Bible history, drug addiction, astrology and the occult went together. The tribulation "users" will fail to repent!

The love of riches and the wrong use of drugs will have a fatal hold! The worldly music and entertainment will be brought to a close. Factories will grind to a halt and the unions will shut down (vs. 22). Happy rejoicing ceases. And what parallels all of this heartache? " for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived" (Rev. 18:23b). Enchanted by pushers, DRUGS and satanic lies, the world will follow a great deception! The present day suicide and bloodshed from drugs climaxes in a broad and sweeping picture of absolute destruction!

The devil is busily feeding his plan. Could it be that our present day Americans will face the holocaust of the Great Tribulation? "Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Rev. 12:12).

"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" (Pro. 14:34).