Meth the Devils drug

-Source-AJC- Before news of an opioid crisis tore through national media Tori Holcomb knew the dangers of painkillers. She got addicted after a softball injury at North Gwinnett High and saw others around her struggling too. Before the resurgence of heroin caused alarm Holcomb knew it was getting more popular. She fell into the drug and the bleak new world that came with it when doctors stopped writing her prescriptions for Percocet. It is the afflicted who are first to know about every epidemic. Now Holcomb knows something else most people dont: Methamphetamine a drug that lawmakers fought with success in the 2000s is back and its more popular plentiful and lethal than ever. While the opioid crisis takes the spotlight prosecutors and police say they also have been coming to grips with the devastating rebound of meth which is killing more people in America today than in the mid-2000s when it was the national problem everyone was talking about.