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Meth addiction down slightly BISMARCK, ND (NDPR) - The number of people being treated for methamphetimine addiction is decreasing -- slightly.

Deputy Attorney General Tom Trenbeth says in 2007, of the people seeking addiction treatment, 30-percent say they have used meth. He says that's down from 33 percent in 2006.

"In interviewing people they're (law enforcement) arresting, and people being treated for addiction, even the addicts are beginning to see that meth is dangerous," Trenbeth told the interim Judicial Process committee. "Unfortunately, those that are prone to that sort of abuse are switching over to the more predictable cocaine. So it's six of one and a half-dozen of the other."

Trenbeth says the number of meth lab busts has also decreased. But he says supplies are coming from out of state -- and from foreign countries.

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