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Mormon Drug Use Increasing In Utah?

A RISING TIDE: METH USE IS SOARING AMONG UTAHNS

It's 4 a.m., and the narcotics team is entering a home in the Salt Lake Valley looking for a meth lab. It's a surprise raid, so officers don't knock. Instead, they bust through windows and kick down doors in the night. One officer comes through a window, showering glass over a child sleeping on a couch.
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Lets not forget that there is a large and ever growing population of non-members and inactive members. Since drug use is growing in general among such populations, it really should be no surprise that it would also be growing in Utah. If Utah were 100% active LDS, then it would be surprising to me.

On a side note, did you see the picture in the article that shows how much meth use ages a person. It was unbelievable!

Edited: tenaheff on 17th Nov, 2004 - 6:32pm

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Meth lab found in room at apartment near BYU; police seek person of interest

Men at an apartment near Brigham Young University found a meth lab in a room in their apartment. Ref. Source 1

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Makes you wonder if there are students in BYU that might be adding to this by buying. The drug trade is such a terrible evil because it affects so many. Now that apartment complex will have to be quarantined because of the harmful chemicals.

Utah Increasing Drug Mormon

Let's not forget about prescription drugs, and how they can be abused, and how after a while the "high" you experience will fade, which means you either need more for the same high, or will need the illegal version of it (For an example going from Oxytocin to cocaine), to just get the same high. Also there is the perfection complex that is a major problem with "Utah" Mormons. People are always pulled in different directions, told if they pay tithing, go to the temple a certain amount of times a year/month/week, for an example, they will have success, and if they don't have success, that means that they are somehow sinning. I can understand why an active member will either take drugs so they can do all the things that are "required" of them by the "Utah Mormon" culture, or to take drugs to dull the mental, if not physical, pain resulting in them not being able to do it all.

Mormon Drug Use Increasing In Utah?

Very true Haleray, however the pressure for perfection has always been there so if drugs are increasing among the membership it has to be more than just the church pressuring the members to have success. It could be that the world itself is where the pressure is coming from. For instance there are far more temptations now than there ever was through social media, your mobile, at home on TV and even on the streets. Almost everywhere you turn there is a distraction that strikes at the heart of the spirit. Maybe anxiety can set in, but this is just my opinion.

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I think using the term "Mormon Drug Use" Is a little too inaccurate. But I'm interested to see the sources. The posts weren't clear and the only link available that I have found is about a meth lab found in an apartment near BYU.

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Search warrant reveals new details into BYU soap or meth operation

Drain cleaner and pseudoephedrine were some of the items collected by investigators [..] a BYU student studying Spanish who is also a returned missionary, had a meth lab set up inside his room at the Riviera Apartments, 1505 N. Canyon Road, next to the BYU campus. Ref. Source 6