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Methamphetamine, or “meth,” gained popularity in the 1990s. Women methamphetamine users are predominantly white, are unmarried, started using in their late teens, and typically used alcohol and marijuana prior to using methamphetamine (Carbone-Lopez & Miller, 2012; Cutler, 2016; Strauss & Falkin, 2001). The three most common reasons women and girls give for using meth are (1) because close friends or partners did (28%), (2) to “party” (27%), and (3) to “get high” (Strauss & Falkin, 2001). Notably, though, 13% started using it to lose weight, 9% to get things done, and 6% to “feel better”; and 70% of the women had been involved in selling, manufacturing, and/or distributing methamphetamine (Strauss & Falkin, 2001).