Given the subject matter, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
More than likely. ^^" I'm mostly just surprised it wasn't mentioned in my Forensics class a year or so back when when we were going over drugs, though admittedly we didn't really go into any sort of elaborate detail. Pretty much we just went over the various categories of drugs (stimulants, depressants, blah blah blah), some of the usual, familiar suspects, emphasis placed upon why meth is a god awful drug that you should never use because it messes up your mind and body so much, etc.
...though honestly, unless it's on the news, that's probably the only place I'd probably hear of it is the classroom. ^^" Especially since the only drugs I really consume on a regular basis are caffeine (yes, yes, I get it through pop instead of a pill, but it's a stimulant, so it counts :V) and the occasional ibuprofen when I have a headache or something.
It's rather new in the states yeah, though it's been in Russia for around... four years now?
Ahh, OK. That probably explains why I didn't hear about it in Forensics (...you can tell I wrote the first part of my post before seeing this one, can't you? :V).