The most deadly recreational drug has become the most popular, in Monterey County and everywhere.

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Today, Frank Abbruzzetti sits in a cell in Susanville. His prison wages are already being taken to help pay to remove the contaminated soil around the residence on Prescott Lane as well as the neighbor’s residence and to remove the methamphetamine and chemicals from the walls, floors and ceilings of the house.

In addition, he must pay the total costs incurred by the Pacific Grove Police and Fire Departments, the Seaside Fire Department, the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and the State Department of Substances Control to break down his clandestine lab and to safely haul away the noxious chemicals. In total, Abbruzzetti owes $203,595. He will most likely be paying for the rest of his life.

The house at Prescott remains boarded up and is still considered uninhabitable, another example of how methamphetamines grows ever more visible in our society. Yet just as meth addicts like Kathleena only hint at all the Jameses in the world, the boarded-up house at Prescott only hints at the meth labs flourishing in this country and across the border.