“We are seeing more meth now than we have ever seen,” a local DEA agent says. HONEYPOWER
Meth killed more people than heroin in King County last year. That might surprise you—we talk a lot more about the opioid crisis than meth abuse—but if you start looking around, it’s not hard to see that Seattle has a meth problem.
You can see signs of it in the paranoid person twitching and pacing outside a bus stop. Meth shows up in criminal incidents—like the August attack outside Ballard’s post office involving a pitchfork, or the unprovoked stabbing on the light rail in September. Surveys show meth use is concentrated in the homeless population. If it feels like there’s a growing number of unstable people in Seattle using this extremely powerful stimulant, that’s because there is.
