Just minutes after we arrived at the Aberdeen bus station, we heard all about strawberry-flavored meth.

"There's a lot, a lot of it," said Chris, a 17-year-old.

"It's easy to find. It's getting out there," said Jodie Fate, a former meth user.

Fate, 19, said she no longer uses meth, but she has tried what's sold on the streets as "strawberry quick."

Like all meth, it's destructive.

"It's not really much fun. It's just really addicting after the first couple of times," Fate said.

Police said drug makers in Mexico are now flavoring crystal meth during the manufacturing process -- and smuggling it north.

"It's certainly being marketed for first-time users, and our concern is that kids will be tempted to become that first-time user," said Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott.

"A lot of people are wanting it," said Chris. He said dealers have offered him "strawberry."

"There's supposed to be orange flavor coming out and there's supposed to be blueberry coming out, too," Chris said.

Candy Meth 'Candy Meth' Meth - regular Methamphetamine

The DEA says the use of flavored meth is on the rise. Agents say it's already showed up in eight states, including ours.

Most are in the west. The first local case we found is in Grays Harbor County.

Aberdeen officers seized three and a half grams during an outstanding warrant arrest.

"I'm sure there's more out there," said Sgt. Keith Fouts of the Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Office.

And in a county where sheriff's deputies say 90 percent of the types of crimes they investigate have a meth connection, the arrival of flavored meth is a big concern.

"We definitely don't want new marketers, drug dealers in our area," Fouts said.

Regular meth, candy meth side-by-side Regular meth (left) and candy meth

Bobette Webber is worried, too.

Clean now for five years, she first used meth at age 15.

"I've smoked it and I've snorted it and I've ate it and it's terrible tasting. I can understand why they would make something like this," she said.

Webber says she would drop meth in coffee to conceal the taste.

Recovering addict Amanda Williams used root beer-flavored meth.

"The drug dealers know what they're doing, and it's a very sad situation," Williams said.

Both Williams and Webber are now in college, working on becoming drug counselors.

They say it's more important than ever to warn kids early about meth -- and giving users hope that they can recover.

"I'm very concerned because it's highly addictive drug and it doesn't take more than a couple of times before you're addicted to the drug. And once it has you, it has you. It doesn't let go for anything," Webber said.

Police aren't sure yet how much flavored meth will show up on the streets.

But Pierce County's drug treatment manager Penni Newman says it's crucial parents know what flavored meth looks like, as it begins to hit the streets.

"Meth as it is right now is not appealing to kids. We know that. You add some color to it, you make it look and sound like Kool-Aid, it's much more appealing to kids," Newman said.

Back at the Aberdeen bus station, Jodie Fate wants people to know that no matter its taste, all meth is destructive.

"It's just the same old ... after awhile," she said. "That's all it is."

She's now building a life after addiction.

"I've been doing it so long it's not fun," she said. "I'm engaged. I want to settle down. I have a legal job finally. That's all I want to do.