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We combine care and coverage. and believe prevention is the most powerful of cures. so forgive us for not going with the flow. we just think the flow should go with us. which makes us rebels with one cause. your health. a methamphetamine epidemic has not only ravaged many of the small rural towns of america's heartland, it's changed the face of the inmate population at prisons like wabash valley correctional facility in southwestern indiana. but wabash also houses men doing time for far more serious crimes. men like jeremy blanchard. >> i have never been a drug abuser. i've never been a drun...

To broadband internet at home. it's a place named one america's most veteran friendly employers. next is information and entertainment in ways you never thought possible. welcome to what's next. comcastnbcuniversal. a methamphetamine epidemic has not only ravaged many of the small towns in america's heartland it has changed the face of inmate populations. at prisons like wabash valley correctional facility in indiana. but wabash houses men doing time for more serious crimes. men like jeremy blanchard. >> i have never been a drug abuser or a drunk. i knew what i done when i done it.

Addictive in the extreme, on othe legal marketplace, okay? obviously kids can't buy it but kids are getting it because drug addicts can buy it and they use some, sell some. and you say? >> i say what do you want to do? lock everybody up? making the stuff more illegal, increasing the penalties doesn't make it better. you said 67 million people have tried it. the government says last month fewer than 600,000 used it. fewer than 10%. most are not addicted. kids try stuff. but your campaign to call this an epidemic. there was the crack epidemic, the methamphetamine epidemic. >> bill: all those are...

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