Oregon Meth Watch provides local businesses with a meaningful opportunity to play an active and visible role in fighting drug use in the community. Meth use and production is a serious and growing problem in Oregon. In addition to the health risks and dangers of meth use and addiction, meth labs create toxic environments that make homes, apartments, hotel rooms, and other lab sites unsafe for habitation and cost thousands of dollars and several weeks of time to clean up.

Meth can be manufactured using ingredients readily available at most grocery, hardware and feed stores in every community. There is an urgent need to curtail drug lab activity by making the theft or purchase of the main ingredients and products used to make meth - especially ephedrine and products containing pseudoephedrine (found in cold or allergy tablets) - more difficult.

Many retailers that sell ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, as well as other meth-related products, have experienced thefts of these products that cost them thousands of dollars in lost revenue. Stores that experience these types of theft are likely a target of meth producers. Participation in Meth Watch helps deter theft and large-scale purchases of these types of products and reduces the likelihood that meth "cookers" will come back to those stores to supply their drug production.

Meth cooks often use hotel or motel rooms or other vacant buildings to set up labs, which can cost proprietors thousands of dollars in clean-up costs and lost revenue. Therefore, Meth Watch also seeks to enlist the participation of lodging operators in this program.

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