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How Meth Took Hold on an Indian Reservation

Authors: Wagner A.

Publication Year: 2007

Last Updated: 2015-10-13 14:47:57

Journal: Addiction

Keywords: American Indian, drug, meth, poverty, unemployment, per capita checks, Mexico, gang, child neglect, Bureau of Indian Affairs, DEA

Abstract:

WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION, Wyo. (AP) –Just off the deserted highways, the silver pickup truck eases down quiet streets, its driver offering a numbing tour of a remote reservation framed by the beauty of snowcapped mountains. There, Leon Tillman says, over there- the house on the right, a white, two-story building set off by itself. It used to be a big drug house. Now it’s shuttered, its owners in prison.

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