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...CRANK...
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. Paula's mother and I spent nearly every waking moment for more than a year seeking help everywhere we could think of. Schools, hospitals and the police told us to go elsewhere. Paula finally realized that her addiction was eventually going to kill...
...filmmaker who has spent the past 28 months making a documentary on five long-term crank users in Los Angeles. As a rule, these addicts are bright, entrepreneurial, artistic, independent-minded, hopeful, spiritually oriented and profoundly alienated. All my subjects carry a burden of shame and deep-seated self-loathing. All cite profound loneliness, frustration, depression, anxiety and hopelessness as major factors implicated in using crank. They say they are medicating themselves. ANDREW ABRAMS, Chairman WorldView Foundation Sunland, Calif...
...Jennifer, the conscience-stricken mother, the party's still not over. Another crank-warped week has passed; another Friday night has rolled around; and though she's thinner, paler and less coherent, she's feeling considerably richer owing to the arrival this morning of her monthly child-support check. Swaying nautically on her favorite barstool, she reports that she has made some changes in her life in the past few days. She's moved out of her parents' place, leaving her daughter behind, and has taken up residence in a rented house with two male roommates who share her taste...
Probably the same place she left her looks, her education, her jobs, her little angel. Somewhere out there in crank city, in the dark--a dark that, no matter how hard Jennifer tries to stop it, always turns to dawn...