Methamphetamine has disproportionately devastated Native American tribal communities. Native Americans now experience the highest meth usage rates of any ethnic group in the nation, according to a 2006 study from the National Congress of American Indians. The study also found that:
Native communities abuse meth at nearly three times higher rates that than Caucasians.
74 percent of tribal police forces rank meth as the greatest drug threat.
40 percent of violent crime is attributable to meth.
69 percent of tribal respondents indicated that they had no tribal-sponsored meth rehab centers.
Native American teens and young adults are two to three times more likely than non-natives to use meth.
Parental meth addiction accounts for 65 percent of all cases involving child neglect and placement of Indian children in foster care
This article appears in Banished.
I massaged a paraplegic who told me that he had been using during the massage. He wasn’t native American. He was a welder and trimmed the tops of Redwoods. saving money towards his wedding. Meth helped him work overtime and keep going so that he could make lots of money in a short time.
He had fallen off the Redwood and his legs were paralyzed.
His family fixed him up in a nice apartment and his auto was modified so he could still drive himself. He drove at night to old town Eureka to get meth. He kept this lifestyle until his family moved him to another state. No one knew his history or spoke to him like he was mentally challenged because he was in the wheelchair. He asked me that specifically, “Why do they talk to me like I am less of a man, why do they talk slowly to me like I am (the r…word,politically, humanely, unacceptable)?.
He called me once and told me how happy he was to get away from Dumboldt County. Are drugs so addictive or the lifestyles? Who created these lifestyles? Isn’t it the need of belonging to the group that pressures an individual to conform and practise a habit? Why do habits form? Aren’t repetitive behaviour taught by parents, teachers and other so-called leaders who flaunt the carrot of false success? There is all the latest research in brain science….when I talk to the mental health crisis line…there are the very few who can talk me through a mental health crisis and remind me that I am safe,intact and do not need a highly paid law enforcement officer to subdue a fleeting panic attack or a nightmare caused by eating too much Unagi. Actually seeing them would enhance my feeling of security. Their ugly uniforms and weapons only serve to prove to me that they are afraid of life and want to rescue someone from someone else while driving around in polluting archaic machines
What the fuck did I just read? Parapalegic massage? The R-Word? Unagi?
The R-word is retard, returd.
Those Indians don’t have any brain cells left anyways.
Shut up you stupid fucking cracker Steve weir