We need to come together as a community to fight meth.

Many of us who have lived on the Russian River for some time have experienced first hand the tragedy of meth addiction. Some of us have dealt with addiction in our families, or with our friends, or some have had to live next to methamphetamine addicts and dealers. Many of us know where these house are, and who is dealing to our kids and community. Many of us are also afraid of stepping forward because of fear of retribution. Those who have stepped forward have been faced with harassment and violence. The most effective members of the community in this fight understand that to fight you need to take a multi-pronged approach:

1. Keep in contact with the police and narcotics squad about meth activity. Write down license plates, descriptions of cars and people, make detailed logs of activity of the residence you suspect that is openly and actively dealing meth.
2. Sue landlords who profit from housing meth dealing tenants.
3. Support people who are seeking help in recovery from meth addiction by sharing resources but not enabling dysfunctional behavior.
4. Come together and organize with your neighbors in a class action lawsuit against landlords and landowners housing Meth activity.
5. Get involved in our schools to help kids stay out of the meth scene in the River area.

Let's use the power of the internet to brainstorm on ways to get meth dealers out of our schools and out of our community here in Guerneville, Rio Nido and Monte Rio. The cycle will not be broken as long as people are actively and openly selling to our kids. We are as much responsible for this in allowing this activity to happen as are the dealers who are selling this stuff to children. Together we can fight this!