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Your story about the use of crank, or methamphetamine, in Billings, Mont., was very personal for me [NATION, June 22]. I am the father of "Paula," a young former addict whom you included in your report. Not only does crank ruin the users, it can also devastate everyone around them...
The report on the use of crank in Billings, Mont. [NATION, June 22], included a photograph of a popular disco where TIME's photographer was offered drugs. We did not mean to imply that any of the people shown in the picture had knowledge of or were involved in the...
Across town, at a table in the modest apartment where she supposes she'll have to go on living until she finds a job, Alicia is quitting crank. Once an upwardly mobile employee of a FORTUNE 500 company based in a large Southwestern city, Alicia is in her mid-30s...
But such solitary crank use isn't the norm in Billings. Crank is a party drug here, a social thing, smoked, injected and snorted by tight-knit groups holed up in houses behind blacked-out windows, talking nonstop about their hopes and dreams and smoking a joint now and then...
Boyish, sardonic and stunningly intelligent, Paula, who has never been anywhere else, calls Billings the crank capital of the universe: "The people in my neighborhood all learned crank from their parents. I mostly hung out with 13- and 14-year-olds. It's getting younger and younger every year."