Professional Development/High School; Guidance; 60 minutes
Methamphetamine affects more than just the person ravaged by their addiction. The impact of the meth epidemic in the prairie region is told firsthand through stories of those hardest hit: the members of families torn apart by this insidious drug, the criminal justice system scrambling to contain a drug supply that seemingly has no end, the medical and counseling professions struggling to find treatment that works, and especially the first hand stories of those addicts recovering, no longer living their life one day at a time in the shadow of meth. The Shadow of Meth was produced by a consortium of public television and radio stations in some of the states hardest hit by the meth epidemic: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas City.