ILLINOIS METH PROJECT NEWS
"With the increases in the number of people using, making, and getting caught with methamphetamine, it's safe to call the Meth problem here an epidemic."
S.J. Davis,
Post-doctoral Fellow, Southern Illinois University
"Campaign seeks to Œunsell¹ meth in rural Illinois"
8/11/2008 - FarmWeek, Illinois
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"Illinois Meth Project Names Executive Director"
5/5/2008 - Meth prevention campaign selects experienced community and policy leader
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"Illinois Meth Project Launches Large-Scale Meth Prevention Campaign"
2/11/2008 - Aggressive media campaign to saturate TV, radio, and print with anti-Meth messaging
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"Illinois Meth Project Releases Results of Meth Use & Attitudes Survey"
2/11/2008 - Statewide data shows one in four young people see little risk in trying meth
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"Methamphetamine on the rise in Pekin - again"
1/21/2008 - The Macomb Journal
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"Program at East St. Louis prison 'writing the book on meth treatment'"
1/17/2008 - The Southern Illinoisan
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"Sheriff's department receives $$ to fight methamphetamine"
1/4/2008 - The Daily American, IL
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"New law targets key ingredient in methamphetamine"
11/2/2007 - Belleville News-Democrat
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"Meth use continues to plague area"
10/24/2007 - Commercial-News, IL
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"Chronicle of meth's damage changes other lives"
10/20/2007 - The Daily American, IL
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"Graphic anti-meth ads are catching on; Illinois has joined a national campaign to scare
kids away from the addictive drug"
10/14/2007 - Chicago Sun-Times
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"Dramatic statistics show extent of meth epidemic"
7/17/2007 - US Fed News
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"Illinois launches meth database"
6/24/2007 - Associated Press
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"U. Illinois: Illinois Gov. Blagojevich endorses $5.2 million plan to fight meth"
5/23/2007 - U-WIRE
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"Rep. Hare votes to combat meth in Illinois"
2/7/2007 - US Fed News
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"Meth awareness campaign begins"
12/16/2006 - The State Journal-Register, IL
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"Meth raid can help get kids to safer sites; State police have seized 67 of them"
11/4/2006 - Belleville News-Democrat
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"U. Illinois: Illinois State U. study examines parental meth use"
7/19/2006 - U-WIRE
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"Southern Illinois U.: Meth-related incidents increase in southern Illinois"
2/10/2006 - U-Wire
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"Its toll on children"
8/22/2004 - Peoria Journal Star
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"Mother realizes addiction 'not worth losing your kids'"
8/22/2004 - Peoria Journal Star
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"Farmer takes role in fight against meth"
8/21/2004 - Peoria Journal Star
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