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When my wife and I learned that we could afford a home, we thought it was too good to be true. It turned out that it was.

Within weeks of moving in, my wife, my two year old son, and I all started experiencing terrible dry-mouth and mouth sores.  Then we started to have trouble breathing, and I developed sinus headaches and nosebleeds.  It was so hard watching my son scream in pain when he tried to eat or even drink water. That’s when we learned why we were getting sick: our new home used to be a meth lab.

My home was contaminated with methamphetamine. But even worse, it was filled with traces of the toxic stew used to cook the drug. In a sense, my family got off easy – we learned why we were getting sick early on. Other families spend years unaware that their homes are making them sicker. Children my son’s age sometimes develop lifelong illnesses and developmental disabilities as a result of their exposure to these chemicals.

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