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meth lab

A regional term for a place where drugs are packaged, diluted or manufactured.

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Cleaning up a meth lab is toxic and expensive and dangerous.

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ON A SUNNY winter afternoon, narcotics detective Chris Lyon turns off a country lane outside the town of Monticello in southeastern Kentucky, the part of the state hardest hit by the meth lab boom.

Merchants of meth

Once discovered on a property, a meth lab cleanup needs to be handled swiftly and professionally.

Meth is it the new mold? Clandestine drug labs continue to pose risks to residential rental units

Last year, a property developer caught running Scotland's first known crystal meth lab had his prison sentence cut by more than half.

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Linked by a series of waiting areas and corridors and overseen by jerry-rigged surveillance equipment, the rooms were evocative of such places as a bare-shelved drug-front store, a dropout commune, meth labs, an underground Chinatown bazaar, and a Met-like gallery space, neatly wainscoted, displaying debris from all of the aforementioned areas as precious relics.

"Black Acid Co-op": Deitch Projects

The effects of long-term exposure to toxic substances present in a meth lab are not well researched, but potential concerns include increased risk of developing cancer, and risks of damage to the brain, liver, kidney, spleen, and immunologic system (Swetlow 2003).

Effects of methamphetamine abuse beyond individual users

Usually rolling meth labs come into play in theft situations.

Drugs in the home: coverage questions involving controlled substances

In 2004, law enforcement officials busted 1,370 meth labs in Arnold's home state alone.

Better living through Chemistry: what the rural Midwest's meth epidemic does, and doesn't, say about the global economy

I work as a one-man-band bureau reporter in Jackson County, and nearly every week I report on meth lab busts.

Winner: WLOX-TV: public service in television journalism (other markets): "Home Sweet Meth Home"

For this reason, each former meth lab or dumping ground must be treated as a potential hazardous waste site and cleaned up accordingly--and it's usually the property owner who foots the bill.

New environmental concerns: commercial real estate lenders nationwide need to be aware of new due-diligence requirements critical to protecting their interests prior to closing. Contamination caused by illicit meth labs and other property uses are creating lingering liability

Also, the agency has held seminars to educate retailers and rental managers and maintenance personnel on the common chemicals and equipment typically used in a meth lab.

Cooperative investigations of methamphetamine laboratories

It was one of the leading counties in the state with felony meth lab prosecutions and was even on the national radar screen in terms of the number of meth labs found in the county.