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With Scenes of Blood and Pain, Ads Battle Methamphetamine in Montana.

The camera follows the teenager as she showers for her night out and looks down to discover the drain swirling with blood. She turns and sees her methamphetamine-addicted self cowering below, oozing from scabs she has picked all over her body because the drug made her think there were bugs crawling beneath her skin, and she lets out a scream worthy of "Psycho."

Dillon Foley, red shirt, with members of a student antidrug group, said watching a spot was like seeing "a car wreck, you can’t take your eyes off it."

Turn on prime time television here, and chances are this or another commercial like it will interrupt.

The spots are part of the Montana Meth Project, a saturation campaign paid for by Thomas M. Siebel, a software billionaire and part-time resident who fell in love with Montana’s vast skies and soaring mountains as a ranch hand in college and now wants to shock the state away from a drug that has ravaged it.

Your support for the Montana Meth Project can start here: http://www.montanameth.org/

By KATE ZERNIKE

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/national/26meth.html

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More stories and info: Montana Meth Project http://www.matr.net/news.phtml?cat_id=64&catlabel=Montana+Meth+Project

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Miles City woman shares story of daughter’s meth abuse at public forum

By CLIFTON ADCOCK
Tribune Staff Writer

Miles City teenager Cassie Haydal hoped to go to college in journalism and started to make a film documenting her life.

The unfinished movie lasted two minutes. Like Haydal’s life, it was short and ended abruptly.

Haydal’s mother, Mary, was in Great Falls Tuesday night to speak about her daughter and the drug that ended her life — methamphetamine.

Haydal spoke to a near-capacity audience at the University of Great Falls Theater about the agony of watching her daughter slip into a coma and eventually die.

Throughout the darkened theater, many could be heard weeping softly and some buried their heads in their hands as Haydal spoke of denial, anger and the pain of letting her daughter go.

"I looked down at my beautiful daughter and I remember asking, ‘how did we get to this place,’ " Haydal said, recalling being in the hospital room with her dying daughter. "The choices (children) make about drugs and alcohol are their choices to make. But with those choices, they take us all."

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060301/NEWS01/603010306/1002

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