Pubdate: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 Source: Tennessean, The (TN) Copyright: 2004 The Tennessean Contact: http://www.tennessean.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/447 Author: Monty Adams STATE CANNOT WAIT TO ADDRESS METH PROBLEM To the editor: In regard to the methamphetamine issue, I submit that the problem cannot wait for study and consideration. (''No funds for meth bills, state committee says,'' March 23) Counties are being consumed by this scourge. Law enforcement and courts are important but not the total answer. We can sink all the money we want into catching and warehousing the offenders, and we will never dent the problem. We must attack with education in all our schools, in every grade, every week for every year our children attend our public and private schools. We are rapidly creating a human time bomb of offenders and their children as well as toxic waste dumps all throughout our communities that will tax us both financially and socially for years to come. Monty Adams - --- MAP posted-by: Josh