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Article: In Va., Narcotic Makes an Isolated Rise; Large Margin, Shenandoah Valley Has Region's Heaviest Methamphetamine Traffic
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 22, 2004
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If different colors stood for different illicit drugs, a narcotics
map of the Washington region would look like a kaleidoscope:
everything everywhere, in every direction. There are trends -- heroin
in Baltimore, crack in the District, "club drugs" such as Ecstasy in
Northern Virginia, but drug enforcement officials describe the area
as a hodgepodge.
With one exception.
Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is isolated in its affair with
methamphetamine, a powerfully addictive drug made with ingredients
that sound less-than-intoxicating, such as battery acid, cold
medicine and drain cleaner.
In the past five years, meth has become the No. 1 drug seized
along the north-south corridor between ...