Inside the meth 資本／首都 of Australia: From a grandfather 麻薬中毒の on ice to his 麻薬-（麻薬）常用者 mate who is about to lose his house ? a 悲劇の look at the ordinary people 廃虚d by 中毒

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居住（者）s of a 田舎の town dubbed Australia's meth 資本／首都 are crying out for help as they struggle with ice 中毒s and を取り引きする 暴力／激しさ 原因（となる）d by the 麻薬.?

An hour east from Adelaide in the town of Murray 橋（渡しをする）, South Australia, 地元のs have 株d horrific stories of how meth 廃虚d their lives.

地元のs have told harrowing stories of how living there has 永久的に scarred them, turning them into （麻薬）常用者s and exposing them to 考えられない brutality.?

A young mother and Murray 橋（渡しをする） 居住（者） has been struggling with ice 中毒?

A mother told Daily Mail Australia she lived in Murray 橋（渡しをする） for ten years, and said it felt like ove rnight the town turned from family friendly to '侵略（する）／超過（する）?with ice and dangerous people.'

She said when a 麻薬 売買業者 moved into her street 暴力／激しさ 増大するd so 不正に her young son 苦しむd PTSD and?she was 軍隊d to move.??

'I lived 近づく the high school and it was a 正規の／正選手 thing for people high on ice to be walking up and 負かす／撃墜する the street 原因（となる）ing all sorts of problems, arguing and yelling at all times of day and night,' she said.

'Everyday I walked my son to school you would see at least 20 洗浄器／皮下注射／浣腸器s on the ground.'

The woman - who asked for anonymity - said she was too 脅すd to even go into her own backyard and her then-最初の／主要な school 老年の son 苦しむd from 審理，公聴会 暴力／激しさ during the night.?

One former Murray 橋（渡しをする） 居住（者） said the town turned violent 夜通し when ice moved in

'It was scary, I hated going outside even in my own 支援する yard my son was terrified from it as it woke him up. He now 苦しむs [PTSD] from living in that [street],' she said.?

'People yelling 乱用 に向かって people who ow ed them money for 麻薬s ... Several times [隣人s] got into fights in the middle of the night.'?

The woman said she 結局 moved to another 明言する／公表する to escape her ex-partner, who she said became abusive after moving to Murray 橋（渡しをする）s and developing a 麻薬 habit.?

After leaving, she said she is happier than ever and has 設立する a partner who 扱う／治療するs her 'like a Queen.'?

充てるd grandfather Nathan wants help after getting 麻薬中毒の の上に ice through a friend?

Murray 橋（渡しをする） 居住（者） Nathan, 48, is a 充てるd grandfather who takes care of his granddaughter, but he has a secret he is 猛烈に trying to hide from her - his meth habit.?

He told A 現在の 事件／事情／状勢?he has spent thousands of dollars on the 'insidious' 麻薬 which he started using when a friend introduced him to it.?

'A good friend of 地雷 who got me into it ? I see the road he's going 負かす／撃墜する, he's about to lose his house,' he said.?

One long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 居住（者） said?the 暴力／激しさ in the area was 圧倒的な, and getting worse.??

'I can give you a thousand stories ... about people wanting to, coming on to the 所有物／資産／財産 to kick my door in, the 強姦 脅しs,' she said.

'Just this afternoon, two 隣人s 現実に 脅すd to 削減（する） my mother's throat.'?

市長 of Murray 橋（渡しをする） Brenton 吊りくさび 収容する／認めるs the area has a problem?

Another 居住（者） in a 悪名高い area of the town 地元のs call 'the birdcage' said it was not long after she moved in that her 隣人 設立する her son dead from the 麻薬.?

'A young man, not too long after I moved in here, died across the road. To hear the mother 叫び声をあげる to find her dead son in there, was just awful,' the young mum said.?

The woman believed nearly every third street in 'the birdcage' was 衝撃d by meth, and has had an 'on and off' 中毒.

'I try, get up on my horse again and then I 落ちる 支援する off,' she said.??

Travis Kirchner (pictured) pleaded 有罪の to 殺人，大当り a mother of three in 2018

The town （機の）カム to prominence in 2018 when 54-year-old mother-of-three Sally Rothe was 殺人d by?Travis Kirchner.?

After the 殺人, over a hundred homes in the area were （警察の）手入れ，急襲d and police said they were shocked to see the 'squalor' people lived in.?

'It breaks your heart when you see these families and you see these kids believe that's normal,'?Sergeant David 追跡（する） of SAPOL's Serious and Organised 罪，犯罪 支店 said in 2015.?

'I'm not やめる sure what normal is anymore, but that's not normal.'

マスコミ 報告（する）／憶測s after the 殺人 said children as young as 11 were （麻薬）常用者d to ice.

One woman said she lived on a street with eight 売買業者s and once saw a man 脅す a six month old baby with a 粉砕するd 瓶／封じ込める.???

'There was (also) an argument between two families, and the male member of one family 粉砕するd a 瓶／封じ込める and 目的（とする）d it at the 長，率いる of a six-month-old baby that its mother was nursing,' she said.?

市長 Brenton 吊りくさび is upset by the fact his town is called 'Australia's meth 資本／首都'

市長 of Murray 橋（渡しをする）?Brenton 吊りくさび 認める the town has a problem with methamphetamines but 主張するd it was a 広大な／多数の／重要な place to live.?

'I've hugged a couple of young people in our community over the years who have said to me, I just want to be clean.?One was a son of a friend of 地雷. He's now dead,' he said.

However, he said the suggestion the town was 'Australia's meth 資本／首都' was hurtful.

'I'm 極端に proud of Murray 橋（渡しをする）,' he said.??

'I think [ice] is on the way up everywhere you want to go. Because it's cheap, it's affordable. It's a 麻薬 麻薬売人s dream.

'The big problem you'll find across 地域の and 田舎の Australia no 事柄 where you go, is that there's nowhere 近づく enough 資源s to 扱う／治療する people.'?