American Meth

Author : Sterling R Braswell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595380213

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American Meth by Sterling R Braswell Pdf

Methamphetamine: the quintessential American drug. American housewives, heads of state, businessmen and poets alike have acquired a taste for the yellow, crystalline powder. Everyone from Hitler to President Kennedy to Elvis to Jack Kerouac indulged in one of its many forms, and its presence has been an invisible hand shaping events, preparing the ground for the strangest drug epidemic the world has ever seen. Today methamphetamine is everywhere, and there seems to be no way of stemming its growth. It is the backbone of Ritalin and the "club drugs" Ecstasy, Eve and Cat. According to the DEA statistics, approximately four percent of all Americans have used clandestinely manufactured methamphetamine. In the 1960s and 1970s millions of mainstream Americans used and abused prescription amphetamines; today, anyone with a stovetop, a beaker, and a little know-how can make its derivative, methamphetamine, with chemicals purchased at the hardware store and pharmacy down the street. American Meth is the unprecedented story of a molecule in all of its incarnations, and the deep but little-known impact it has had on American life over the course of the last century. Told from the viewpoint of author Sterling Braswell, whose life has been touched by the drug, American Meth is a deeply personal drama that illuminates the epidemic we live with today.

Author : Nick Reding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608191567

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Methland by Nick Reding Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism Named a best book of the year by: the Los Angeles Times the San Francisco Chronicle the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch the Chicago Tribune the Seattle Times "A stunning look at a problem that has dire consequences for our country.”-New York Post The dramatic story of Methamphetamine as it comes to the American Heartland-a timely, moving, account of one community's attempt to confront the epidemic and see their way to a brighter future. Crystal methamphetamine is widely considered to be the most dangerous drug in the world, and nowhere is that more true than in the small towns of the American heartland. Methland is the story of the drug as it infiltrates the community of Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), a once-thriving farming and railroad community. Tracing the connections between the lives touched by meth and the global forces that have set the stage for the epidemic, Methland offers a vital and unique perspective on a pressing contemporary tragedy. Oelwein, Iowa is like thousand of other small towns across the county. It has been left in the dust by the consolidation of the agricultural industry, a depressed local economy and an out-migration of people. If this wasn't enough to deal with, an incredibly cheap, long-lasting, and highly addictive drug has come to town, touching virtually everyone's lives. Journalist Nick Reding reported this story over a period of four years, and he brings us into the heart of the town through an ensemble cast of intimately drawn characters, including: Clay Hallburg, the town doctor, who fights meth even as he struggles with his own alcoholism; Nathan Lein, the town prosecutor, whose case load is filled almost exclusively with meth-related crime, and Jeff Rohrick, who is still trying to kick a meth habit after four years. Methland is a portrait of a community under siege, of the lives the drug has devastated, and of the heroes who continue to fight the war. It will appeal to readers of David Sheff's bestselling Beautiful Boy, and serve as inspiration for those who believe in the power of everyday people to change their world for the better.

Author : Sam Quinones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781635574371

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The Least of Us by Sam Quinones Pdf

Apple Best Books of 2021 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal * Shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize From the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair. Sam Quinones traveled from Mexico to main streets across the U.S. to create Dreamland, a groundbreaking portrait of the opioid epidemic that awakened the nation. As the nation struggled to put back the pieces, Quinones was among the first to see the dangers that lay ahead: synthetic drugs and a new generation of kingpins whose product could be made in Magic Bullet blenders. In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths-at the same time as Mexican traffickers made methamphetamine cheaper and more potent than ever, creating, Sam argues, swaths of mental illness and a surge in homelessness across the United States. Quinones hit the road to investigate these new threats, discovering how addiction is exacerbated by consumer-product corporations. “In a time when drug traffickers act like corporations and corporations like traffickers,” he writes, “our best defense, perhaps our only defense, lies in bolstering community.” Amid a landscape of despair, Quinones found hope in those embracing the forgotten and ignored, illuminating the striking truth that we are only as strong as our most vulnerable. Weaving analysis of the drug trade into stories of humble communities, The Least of Us delivers an unexpected and awe-inspiring response to the call that shocked the nation in Sam Quinones's award-winning Dreamland.

Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467703840

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Meth, 2nd Edition by Elaine Landau Pdf

Once considered the “poor man’s cocaine,” methamphetamine has seeped into the mainstream in the United States. It is estimated that more than 12 million people have tried the drug, and 1.4 million used it during the past year. Meth-making operations have been uncovered in all fifty states and police departments across the nation now rank methamphetamine as the number one drug they battle today. In this eye-opening title, author Elaine Landau examines both the meth epidemic and its social implications. First, she looks at the drug itself—how its history and its many forms shape the problem today, how meth affects the user’s body, and how the drug’s long-term effects complicate addiction issues. In addition, Landau investigates meth’s cost to society, what perils meth labs present to their surroundings, how police and lawmakers are attempting to deal with the problems, and how the situation continues to change. By considering the problem from both individual and community angles, Landau provides an important analysis of one of the nation’s most serious social problems.

Author : William Garriott,William Campbell Garriott
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814732397

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Policing Methamphetamine by William Garriott,William Campbell Garriott Pdf

In its steady march across the United States, methamphetamine has become, to quote former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, “the most dangerous drug in America.” As a result, there has been a concerted effort at the local level to root out the methamphetamine problem by identifying the people at its source—those known or suspected to be involved with methamphetamine. Government-sponsored anti-methamphetamine legislation has enhanced these local efforts, formally and informally encouraging rural residents to identify meth offenders in their communities. Policing Methamphetamine shows what happens in everyday life—and to everyday life—when methamphetamine becomes an object of collective concern. Drawing on interviews with users, police officers, judges, and parents and friends of addicts in one West Virginia town, William Garriott finds that this overriding effort to confront the problem changed the character of the community as well as the role of law in creating and maintaining social order. Ultimately, this work addresses the impact of methamphetamine and, more generally, the war on drugs, on everyday life in the United States.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : PSU:000058149256

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Fighting meth in America's heartland by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781422332757

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Fighting Meth in Americas Heartland: Assesing Fedral State and Local Efforts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeremy Harrow
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435843929

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Crystal Meth by Jeremy Harrow Pdf

Crystal meth is one of the fastest growing and most dangerous drugs. Because of its addictive powers, trying it just once can mean chronic addiction. In this attention-getting book, readers are shown the ugly reality of crystal meth use. Using gross, vivid images and unvarnished language, young adults will learn before they experiment just how tragic the use of this drug can be.

Author : Frank Spalding,Lara Norquist
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448846412

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The Truth About Methamphetamine and Crystal Meth by Frank Spalding,Lara Norquist Pdf

Describes the effects of methamphetamine and crystal meth and provides information about drug testing, dependence and withdrawal, and finding treatment.

Author : Jason Pine
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452961279

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The Alchemy of Meth by Jason Pine Pdf

Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold Meth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks pleasurable, whether it’s factory work or tinkering at home. Users are awake for days and feel exuberant and invincible. In one person’s words, they “get more life.” The Alchemy of Meth is a nonfiction storybook about St. Jude County, Missouri, a place in decomposition, where the toxic inheritance of deindustrialization meets the violent hope of this drug-making cottage industry. Jason Pine bases the book on fieldwork among meth cooks, recovery professionals, pastors, public defenders, narcotics agents, and pharmaceutical executives. Here, St. Jude is not reduced to its meth problem but Pine looks at meth through materials, landscapes, and institutions: the sprawling context that makes methlabs possible. The Alchemy of Meth connects DIY methlabs to big pharma’s superlabs, illicit speed to the legalized speed sold as ADHD medication, uniquely implicating the author’s own story in the narrative. By the end of the book, the backdrop of St. Jude becomes the foreground. It could be a story about life and work anywhere in the United States, where it seems no one is truly clean and all are complicit in the exploitation of their precious resources in exchange for a livable present—or even the hope of a future.

Author : Philip Schaff,Henry Codman Potter,Samuel Macauley Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32435021495874

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The American Church History Series by Philip Schaff,Henry Codman Potter,Samuel Macauley Jackson Pdf

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Encyclopedias
ISBN : UIUC:30112119739974

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The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge by John Clark Ridpath Pdf

Author : William Harrison De Puy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172105489138

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The American Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge by William Harrison De Puy Pdf

Author : J. W. Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : YALE:39002053189305

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American Fraternal Greetings to the Wesleyan Conferences in Ireland and England by J. W. Hamilton Pdf

Author : Philip Schaff,Henry Codman Potter,Samuel Macauley Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQ9WX

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The American Church History Series: The religious forces of the United States, by H.K. Carroll by Philip Schaff,Henry Codman Potter,Samuel Macauley Jackson Pdf