Who uses methamphetamine and amphetamines?
• During 2000, 4% of the U.S. population reported trying methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.3 • Abuse is concentrated in the western, southwestern, and midwestern United States. How do methamphetamine and amphetamines get to the United States? • Clandestine laboratories in California and Mexico are the primary sources of supply for methamphetamine available in the United States. • Domestic labs that produce methamphetamine are dependent on supplies of the precursor chemical pseudoephedrine, which is sometimes diverted from legitimate sources. It is smuggled from Canada, and to a lesser extent from Mexico. • Domestic independent laboratory operators, mostly in the western, southwestern, and midwestern United States, also produce and distribute methamphetamine but on a smaller scale. • Yaba (meth in tablet form) is most often produced in Southeast Asia and sent by mail or courier to the United States.4 How much do methamphetamine and amphetamines cost? • Prices for methamphe
