Another year in Alamogordo and the Otero County Health Council and Otero County Meth Coalition realize we still are under siege by the insidious invader methamphetamine.

What can help guide children, peers, relatives, fellow employees, supervisors, and fellow church members is the understanding that methamphetamine respects no man.

The medical and clinical facts are that every person who experiments with or uses this drug gets hooked immediately. Obsession for more and an increase in the amount used occurs right away.

Continued use will result in the lack of good judgment. Users become impulsive, aggressive, possibly violent, and lose the use of healthy logic.

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