Craig Daily Press

For Tim Martin, it's a way to give back to the community.

Martin will be officially introduced as the media director for Communities Overcoming Meth Abuse of Craig on Thursday evening at the organization's monthly meeting.

"I came to Craig to start my radio career," said the KRAI employee. "But as I've spent more time here I wanted to give back. C.O.M.A. plays an extremely important role in the community that I wanted to get involved with."

One of Martin's first actions as media director was to set up a MySpace page for C.O.M.A.

"When we looked at how to inform the public more we realized the youth were an important aspect," Martin said. "MySpace is growing in popularity with local youth so we thought it could be an important tool."

The page www.myspace.com/craigcoma is in its initial stages.

In addition to the information about C.O.M.A it has one article about an infant found with meth in its system.

Martin said he hopes to continue to add stories and information about meth.

"I'm about to put (a story) up about 40 pounds of meth found in Elmo dolls," he said. "We hope that people who are on MySpace will add us as a friend to expand who is seeing our page."

MySpace is a growing Web site fad that allows people to set up and view personal profiles pages. There are more than 124 million profiles in the MySpace network.

According to a search on MySpace, there are currently 732 MySpace profiles by people from Craig who are 18 to 35 years old.

"We feel all ages are affected by meth," C.O.M.A chairwoman Annette Dunckley said. "Tim had a good idea that MySpace could reach some of the younger ones affected."

Dunkley encourages the community to come to C.O.M.A.'s next meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Moffat County School District administration building's boardroom.

Doug Seward, a local acupuncturist, will be at the meeting to demonstrate a therapy for meth addiction.

"We've researched that some families are spending $25,000 to $28,000 for a 28-day program," Dunckley said. "Doug is a local source who can help for much less than that."