Decades later, meth's ugly head reared again in the '60s through biker gangs in California. Slowly moving east since that time, meth has now found a permanent home in Utah. Utah is infamously known as the hot spot for meth use per capita in the country, with a No. 1 ranking. The state also owns a No. 3 ranking for the total number of meth labs. Those numbers are proved in Ogden and Salt Lake where agents bust between three and six labs every week.
Most labs are only large enough to supply one or two people.
But those small labs still cause huge problems. Though cranksters on a meth binge often go between three and five days on the ride of their lives, the crash they experience when the high is over is equally dramatic. Physiologically, the body can't stay up that long without sleep. Cranksters often are so addicted to it that they forsake eating and any type of physical activity. Even going to the bathroom is too much work.