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5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Of Methamphetamine In Hawaiʻi

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By John Hill Verified
| Honolulu Civil Beat Verified
A Civil Beat series starting today examines the people caught up in Hawaiʻi’s most severe drug problem, how it started and what’s being done about it. Civil Beat spent nearly a year looking into Hawaiʻi’s persistent problem with methamphetamine, a drug that kills far more people than opioids on the islands. The number of meth overdoses has shot up dramatically in recent years, and the victims are often longtime users who suffer damage to their hearts and other organs.
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100 Autopsies: Meth Deaths Spiking 40 Years After Ice Seized Hawaiʻi

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By John Hill Verified
| Honolulu Civil Beat Verified
Hawaiʻi was ground zero for smoking methamphetamine in the U.S. Today, it’s the only place where meth is far deadlier than opioids — yet the state has been slow to act. This is the first part in an ongoing series exploring Hawaiʻi’s methamphetamine crisis. First responders to a 911 call in Kalihi found a man lying on his wooden bedroom floor in the early morning sunlight between his twin bed and a filing cabinet. The EMTs noticed he was clutching something in his left hand.
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5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Of Methamphetamine In Hawaiʻi

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By John Hill Verified
| News from the States
Civil Beat spent nearly a year looking into Hawaiʻi's persistent problem with methamphetamine, a drug that kills far more people than opioids on the islands. The number of meth overdoses has shot up dramatically in recent years, and the victims are often longtime users who suffer damage to their hearts and other organs. Experts on the mainland say that polysubstance use -- mixing meth with opioids, primarily fentanyl -- has become far more common.
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