1.   And while many of the effects of methamphetamine are similar to those produced by cocaine, drug abuse experts said meth users take more drugs for longer periods.

2.   As a result, regular meth users follow a circular course through jail and back out onto the streets.

3.   All departments contacted report that in murders in which the victim is dismembered, the killer usually is a meth user.

4.   But Armstead of the DEA said that in the Midwest, illicit use of OxyContin has primarily been by meth users coming off their jittery high.

5.   Eric Martin and other meth users say they expect their meetings to grow more crowded.

6.   For more than two years, they served search warrants, sifted through garbage, traced fake property deeds and tailed meth users and dealers.

7.   He has congestive heart failure, the same disease that killed Marsh and other chronic meth users.

8.   Officers have to take such precautions because of the nature of meth users.