There was an article out yesterday about a sheriff in a small town--unfortunately, here in Missouri--who got caught selling and using methamphetamine. Turns out he was out of the Southeast corner of the state--the Cape Girardeau area, Carter County.
So I read a bit of the article and it was, as expected, tragic and sad and unfortunate.
It was also informative.
It told of methamphetamine usage and Missouri:
No state has been hit harder by the meth epidemic than Missouri, which led the nation in meth lab busts every year for a decade before Tennessee took over the top spot in 2010, dropping Missouri to second. Missouri has reported more than 13,000 meth lab incidents in the past seven years. The highly-addictive drug, made by cooking common chemicals, has caused countless fires and explosions, along with severe health problems among users.
If you go to the link to the original story (see below), you can see a picture of this Sheriff. At 31, he was/is still baby-faced. So young.
His life doesn't have to be over, necessarily but this certainly was a bad turn for the young man. It will likely be years now, somewhere, in a jail or prison.
So sad.
As if this, above, isn't enough, as if this wouldn't make it sad and tragic enough, this sheriff is also married with a child:
Lloyd Parsons, 37, a member of the Van Buren Fire Department, never figured Adams for one of the bad guys. He described Adams, the married father of an infant son, as professional and knowledgeable.
"I've worked several accidents with the guy and he knew his stuff, even the medical part," Parsons said.
It seems another example of how we need more education, possibly, in our state and country.
There's no one answer but we need solutions. So many problems. And we need solutions.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110419/ap_on_re_us/us_sheriff_meth
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