Shake and Bake Meth

Also known as the "one pot" method, shake and bake meth is produced in a two-liter soda bottle. A few cold pills are mixed with common, but noxious, household chemicals and produces enough meth for the user to get a few hits. After the chemical reaction, what's left is a crystalline powder that users smoke, snort or inject.

This type of meth lab is really a mobile ticking time bomb. If the bottle is shaken the wrong way or if any oxygen gets inside of it. The bottle can explod into a giant fireball, touches off intense fires and releases drug ingredients that must be handled as toxic waste.

This is why the new "shake and bake" process is even more dangerous than the old makeshift meth labs.

Drug users are making meth while driving around in their cars and throwing the used plastic bottles, containing a poisonous brown and white sludge, along the highway.

If you come accross a discarded container used in one-pot (shake and bake) meth making do not touch it – contact the police department to discard it, as they will likely need to have a haz-mat team clean up the mess left behind.

Ok, so people are using coke bottles and such why not make the lids just snap on and not screw on!

Children and Meth, 2008 Meth Threat Assessment link

National Drug Intelligence Center
Information Bulletin:
Children at Risk
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs1/1466/index.htm



National Methaphetamine Threat Assessment 2008
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs26/26594/index.htm#Top

This Threat Assessment is a national-level strategic assessment of methamphetamine trafficking in the United States. It addresses significant trends in methamphetamine production, transportation, distribution, and abuse. It discusses a wide range of issues, including methamphetamine production in Mexico, the increasing availability of Mexican ice methamphetamine in domestic drug markets, and apparent methamphetamine shortages in some western markets.



Ofice of National Drug Control Policy
Drug Endangered Children
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/enforce/dr_endangered_child.html

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a component of the Executive Office of the President, was established by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988.

The principal purpose of ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program. The goals of the program are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences. To achieve these goals, the Director of ONDCP is charged with producing the National Drug Control Strategy. The Strategy directs the Nation's anti-drug efforts and establishes a program, a budget, and guidelines for cooperation among Federal, State, and local entities.

Methamphetamine or Meth Facts

Crystal Meth is a smokeable form of Methamphetamine. Crystal Meth looks like crystal's thus it's name. It is odorless and colorless. Also sometimes snorted or injected. An extremely addictive man-made stimulant that usually leads to physiological and psychological dependence.

Meth has been around for quite some time. Chemist Nagayoshi Nagai created meth from ephedrine in 1893. In 1919 Akira Ogata created its crystallized form.

Adolph Hitler mixed Benzedrine with other chemicals and gave it to his army to inable them to fight for days without food or sleep, it was called Pervitin. Also, known as Fliegerschokolade or "flyer's chocolate" given to pilots, or Panzerschokolade or "tanker's chocolate" when given to tank crews. It was mixed with chocolates.

The Japanese Kamikaze took the drug to calm their fears before attacking American Ships. After World War II, it became known as "Shabu" in Japan. Prohibited by the Japanese Ministry of health in 1951.

In the 1950's it was a prescribed drug for narcolepsy, alcoholism, treatment of obesity and post encephalitic Parkinsonism.

In the 1960's Methamphetamine manufacturing began in Hawaii.

Meth is made out of chemicals from solvents, lye, rat poison, battery acid, drain cleaner, hydrochloric acid, ammonia, gasoline or acetone, ephedrine or pseudo-ephedrine. It has been produced in homes, hotels, storage facilities, in the back of auto's. Just about everywhere. The combination of chemicals can cause potentially explosive atmospheres.

This causes hazardous conditions to children in the homes of these meth labs, they are often malnourished, improperly clothed, neglected. It also causes the general public vulnerability to these labs as well when they are dumped into our waterways, ponds, public sewer systems, on the side of country roads or even in our yards.

Meth labs can be identified by the chemical smell, usually smelling like ammonia, or fingernail polish. Excessive amounts of pill bottles from the cold medicines. Propane tanks that have blue corrosion on the fittings. Starter fluid cans opened from the bottom, hotplates, lots and lots of baggies, coffee filters, matches, lithium batteries, mason jars, plastic tubing, funnels. Ventilation hoses sticking out of the homes where labs are located. Basically anything out of the ordinary.

Meth can cause erratic, violent behavior, loss of appetite, loss of sleep, extreme mood swings, and causes the user's behavior to become unpredictable. It can cause convulsions and tremors, irregular heart rate, increased blood pressure. Homicidal or suicidal thoughts and anxiety.

Methamphetamine is also known as lines, dope, tweak, stuff, cridium, crystal, zoom, wake up, junk, go, sketch, crystal meth, glass, ice, crank and speed.

Meth is introduced into the body by smoking, snorting, eaten or injecting it.

Typically sold in 1/4 gram packages for about $20-$25.

Meth is a stimulant that accelerates the central nervous system.