Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine is seldom distributed, produced, or abused in Maine. According to the Maine Office of Substance Abuse, only 20 of the total 10,082 treatment admissions during the first 11 months of 2001 involved methamphetamine as the primary drug of abuse. (See Table 1 in Diverted Pharmaceuticals section.) Methamphetamine-related arrests decreased from 21 in FY1998 to 7 in FY2001. MDEA reports that methamphetamine production does not pose a threat to the state. The limited methamphetamine activity that occurs in the state is generally attributed to OMGs and young Caucasian males. According to DEA, methamphetamine sold for $70 to $300 per gram in the first quarter of FY2002. 

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