Significant meth report from The Sentencing Project

I just received an e-mail from The Sentencing Project about a major new study that it claims disproves “the popular belief that there exists a growing methamphetamine epidemic within the United States.” According to the e-mail, this report, entitled “The Next Big Thing? Methamphetamine in the United States” and available at this link, “reveals that methamphetamine is actually one of the rarest of illegal drugs used, with its use declining among youth, stabilizing among adults and demonstrating no increase in first-time users.”

According to the e-mail, important findings of this new meth report include:

• Methamphetamine is among the least commonly used drugs.
• Methamphetamine remains a rare occurrence throughout most of the country and is not indicative of a nationwide problem.
• Methamphetamine use is declining among our nation’s youth.
• Drug treatment programs are effective in combating methamphetamine addictions.