Metro's Meth360 Gives Residents Tools to Fight Back.


One recovering addict Eyewitness News talked with Tuesday says he wishes programs like Metro's Meth360 would have been around when he was younger.




You may be the key to lowering crime in your neighborhood by helping lower the number of methamphetamine users. During Metro's First Tuesday event, narcotics detectives spoke at every substation in town delivering their Meth360 campaign.

The methamphetamine epidemic plagues the Las Vegas,Nevada Valley. Police say the addiction leads to most property crime, but they are giving the community the tools to fight back. The campaign not only teaches people about the far reaching effects of meth from the user to the innocent victims they attack, but it also gave them things to look out for that may point to a person abusing meth.

One recovering addict Eyewitness News talked with Tuesday says he wishes programs like this would have been around when he was younger. It could have saved him from going down a very dangerous path.

Twenty-five-year-old Matthew Nault is cleaning up his act. But it took this recovering meth addict a lot to get to the point he's at now.

Nault said, "I saw some of my best friends die. My best friends were stealing for me. That's when I hit rock bottom."

In memory, his friend's nickname is tattooed across his arm, a reminder of what meth use can lead to.

"I was telling everyone don't get into that and they all did and now half of them are dead and I'm still alive and I don't know how," Matthew continued.

For many, addiction leads to crime and that's where Metro is stepping in with their new Meth360 Campaign. They're teaching citizens to be the eyes and ears, watching out for signs of meth use so they can hopefully keep it out of the neighborhood.

Nault says prevention is the key in the meth fight. But for addicts, it's hard to turn life around unless the addict, like Nault, decides to do it for himself.

He said, "That's what I think. If I do it one more time, I could die."