Authors: Voices for America

Publication Year: 2006

Last Updated: 2016-01-07

Journal: The Voice of America US Fed News Service

Keywords: American Indian, meth, crisis, methamphetamine, drug problem, U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, hallucinations, violent behavior, suicide attempts, Native communities, Native Alaskan villages, Indian country, tribal leaders,

Abstract:

"My people are in pain and are suffering from meth," Kathleen Wesley-Kitcheyan told the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The chairwoman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, a community of 13,000 in Arizona said methamphetamine is "shattering families, endangering children and threatening the tribe's spiritual and cultural lives." It was impossible for her to get through her testimony without breaking into tears.

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