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A task force, headed by Pima County,Arizona Attorney Barbara La Wall, handed the state a plan to take on what governor Janet Napolitano says is our number one drug problem: methamphetamine.

There are 3 main goals: enforcement, treatment, and prevention. The Arizona task force recommends a prevention campaign targeting Arizona's students. Plus, treatment services for adults and kids, reducing meth trafficking across the border, and tracking meth related arrests and the sales of chemicals used to make meth, like psuedoephedrine.

Governor Napolitano says meth may very well be the number one public health problem. A recovered addict explained the lure for addicts: it's expensive, but the feeling makes it worth it.

Meth costs about $9,000 a pound, $40 a gram. It's expensive in more ways than one.

Black looks like an average guy, and he is, but he wasn't always this way. Trenton was addicted to meth for three years. "Meth alters your mind in such an incredible way, it's truly become a big problem in society."

He started using drugs at the age of 16. "I first started with basics: alcohol, marijuana, it progressed to other things, LSD." Giving him a feeling unlike any other, "I felt that I could function, it clouded my mind from everything else that I felt was a problem but it was just adding to each problem that I had, just putting a mask on each problem I had."

A trip to jail forced him to change.