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Meth fills hospitals with burn patients

By Miami Herald / Associated Press  
   January 24, 2012

A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment—a burden so costly that it's contributing to the closure of some burn units.

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