Providing urine samples is one of many requirements imposed on Keele, 29, to help her stay off meth. Semiweekly court appearances and nightly therapy sessions are also part of the routine. Slipping up means jail and separation from her son.

"It's been a pain in my butt," she said. "But to live happy, it's a small price to pay."

But the desire to use never goes away. The petite Keele said she's glad she hasn't put on weight since getting clean. "I'm glad I never gained that much weight, because I'd go right back on meth, almost guaranteed."

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Delois Richardson suffers from meth-induced psychosis.

What this means to the 40-year-old woman is that she sometimes sees things moving down at the bottom of her bunk at the Utah State Prison where her clothes hang. She will have been clean one year in April, but it will be about three years before her delusions dissipate.

Twenty-five years of drug use, much of that on meth, has fried Richardson's brain, she says. "It causes dehydration, dental problems, bone deterioration. Meth is a poison."

She once shredded a mattress to ribbons with a knife because she thought something was moving inside. She has jumped out of moving cars.

"I believe in the evil of meth more than I believe in the evil of the devil."

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Katie has never been to jail. She's never been to court. She has the face of a teenager, and at 20, she's not much older. She draws her thin legs up under her and chews on a knuckle when she talks to a reporter about her drug use in the apartment she shares with a friend.

So, why does she use meth when she has so much to lose? "It's something to do," she says.

Katie never gets high around her 3 1/2-month-old baby any more, because her child's dad won't allow it. He's clean now and righteous about her drug use.

So, she goes to his house during the day to watch her infant, then leaves the baby there and gets high when she comes home at night.

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Susan Martin has been at Chelsea Street for one day. She arrived after a two-year stint at the Utah State Prison for leading cops on a high-speed chase while "strung out on the needle."

The 32-year-old mother of three started doing meth at age 13 when it was known as "crank." Her addicted sister enlisted her to sell for her in junior high and high school.

"She was my older sister, so I had to do what she said."

It led to a life of drugs and crime. Martin stopped using for a while after getting married and having children. "The mother hen coming out." But it didn't last.