Tomas Mirabelli knows the symptoms of crystal meth when he sees them: a person on transit or along a city sidewalk behaving erratically, talking in circles or lashing out at a passerby.
These days, Mirabelli, a drop-in coordinator with St. Stephen’s Community House in Kensington Market, is seeing the signs more than ever.
The synthetic stimulant is booming citywide; police have seized increasing amounts off the streets, and amphetamine-related cases at Toronto’s largest mental health hospital have soared, driven predominantly by meth use.
I just do not see anything getting “better” in Toronto.
