Thomas Mott Osborne: “this is what the methamphetamine epidemic looked like in 1990. These two States had 20 or more meth labs at that time.…”

“this is what the methamphetamine epidemic looked like in 1990. These two States had 20 or more meth labs at that time. This is what the methamphetamine epidemic looked like in 1998. This is what it looked like in 2004. So we can see the spread of meth. I think it is the biggest threat to the United States other than possibly terrorism today. We have heard statements on the floor tonight that education does not work, advertising does not work. This is a picture of a young lady who started taking meth at age 30. She was arrested every year for 10 years. This is the last picture, and she is in the morgue. She lasted 10 years. This is unusually long on meth. But when we show these pictures to kids, when we get in the schools; in my district, there are 200 schools. We have been in 100 schools in the last 5 months. When we show this kind of Power Point, it does affect them. We have kids every time come up and say, my folks have been picked up, my folks ran a meth lab; this has affected me. So I realize that where we are taking the money from is not popular. I hope that in some way we can get this advertising money out there because it does make a difference. This is a critical problem. I appreciate what the gentleman from Indiana is doing and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Larsen) and I would really urge, Mr. Chairman, that some way we get some of this money restored to this program because it is so critical to this Nation at this time.”