Addicted: a five-part series examining methamphetamine in Alberta’s capital city.

Part One: How meth hooked Edmonton — again https://edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/addicted-how-meth-hooked-edmonton-again/wcm/3512df7e-bee4-4c03-8584-abb991cf5304/

Many will tell you Edmonton is in the middle of a methamphetamine crisis.

When Statistics Canada measured the drug content of wastewater in five major Canadian cities in 2018, Edmonton was number one for meth.

Meth began to reemerge in the late 1980s. It first hit the news in Alberta in 1989.

By the early 2000s, police were regularly raiding meth labs large and small.

Jocelan Yeomans’ path to meth was meandering, the result of years of unprocessed trauma.

“Inside, I was very lost,” she confessed. “I was always searching for something to fill me. I always felt there was a part of me that was empty or that was missing.”

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/addicted-how-meth-hooked-edmonton-again/wcm/3512df7e-bee4-4c03-8584-abb991cf5304/

Video: Meth is cheap and easy to get, but hard to escape