Updated at 5:27 a.m., Thursday, November 30, 2006
Ala Moana event celebrates meth awareness day
Advertiser Staff
The U.S. Attorney's Office and the Drug Free Coalition of Hawai'i are co-hosting National Methamphetamine Awareness Day at the Ala Moana Shopping Center's center stage at 2 p.m. today.The event is part of a nationwide effort to curb meth use.
On Tuesday, President Bush and the White House issued a statement on the awareness day that in part reads:
"While the number of teens who have tried this deadly drug and the number of people testing positive for methamphetamine in the workplace have decreased in recent years, methamphetamine use is still a dangerous public health problem.
"In the Synthetic Drug Control Strategy released earlier this year, my Administration set goals of a 15 percent decrease in methamphetamine use and 25 percent reduction in domestic methamphetamine labs over the next 3 years. ...
"The struggle against methamphetamine is a national, State, and local effort."
