AP IMPACT: Meth fills hospitals with burn patients
Monday, January 23, 2012 - 08:01
in Health & Medicine
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment - a burden so costly that it's contributing to the closure of some burn units....