The drug made Todd Z. into a drug user, drug dealer, and a resident of Louisville's Healing Place, as a recovering meth addict.
Todd was part of the message in an event to roll out a new education campaign to tell Americans about the threat of meth.
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America says people know very little about this new drug and how it destroys lives.
But meth damages more than the user.
It is the new and more deadly second hand smoke.
The centerpiece of this advertising campaign is the second hand damage caused by meth. Children living in the same house with a makeshift meth lab can suffer physical damage that cannot be repaired.
It is being called the worst illegal drug that law enforcement has yet encountered.
Louisville is one of the first cities to see the new meth education ads, but they will eventually be seen in 23 U.S. cities.
It's an effort to keep young people out of the drug pipeline, a pipeline where they are dumped in a drug treatment center or a cemetery.