Self-help and treatment programs in cities like Chicago and Atlanta are seeing an influx of meth users. In Minneapolis-St. Paul, 10 percent of treatment clients are addicted to meth, many of them minors. In Miami, experts compared the increase in meth use to the early days of the cocaine epidemic.

Typically, meth use first becomes popular in urban clubs and raves -- notably among gay men -- then spreads to the population at large. The typical meth user is white, but the drug may now be gaining some traction in the black and Hispanic communities as well. The drug also is popular among women, who like the drug because it helps them lose weight.

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