It's not necessarily an issue about jobs in my neck of the woods.  Montana's unemployment level is low relative to the national average but the meth use is sky high.  Kids say it's boredom and peer pressure. You may want to make it about jobs, but how in the hell do they support their habits without jobs?  Most of them don't sell or steal, they work real jobs and that's how they pay for it.   This isn't about ghetto drug use.  They is way more about the drug use patterns of the sixties by white kids trippin' out.  Believe you what you want.  I'm sure you aren't an active part of the solution anyway.