Did anyone watch 4 Corners this week, it was pretty frightening. Couldn't help thinking that if just half of the effort spent by some in spreading the illogical fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims was spent on this very real problem then we might be able to do something about it.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2014/10/20/4108571.htm
This week on Four Corners, reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna travels through the regions of two states, riding with police and users, to tell the shocking story of towns and people in the grip of ice.
She pieces together a disturbing picture: major international drug cartels are working with locally based outlaw motorcycle gangs to push ice out of the cities. It's a massive illicit corporate enterprise; sophisticated and highly organised.
Their targets? Captive markets of bored teenagers in country towns, where there's a desperate lack of treatment facilities and under resourced or non-existent police.
Four Corners goes to one community of less than 4,000 people where up to one in ten people are using ice. Meldrum-Hanna meets teenagers who began using in their early teens, sits with them as they smoke ice and with others as they inject, and discovers how bikie gangs use other children to "cook" methamphetamine, destroying their health and leaving them with ruinous addiction.
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