"I think for a lot of women, especially single mothers, it gives you the energy that you think you need to keep the house, the kids, the yard, the cars, the groceries, the laundry, everything going," said Debra Breuklander, a former nurse who became addicted to meth. "At least, that's how it took me over."

"There's no comparable drug that we've ever seen as long as I've been in substance abuse that appeals to women as much as meth does," said B.J. VanRoosendaal, spokeswoman for the Utah State Division of Substance Abuse.

Nationwide data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows that women made up 47 percent of patients in addiction-treatment centers who identified meth as their primary drug of use in 1999.

According to VanRoosendaal and other experts in the addiction field, meth also appeals to women because it's inexpensive and easy to obtain.

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