The Alchemy Of Meth

Author : Jason Pine
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Frank Owen
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466853096

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No Speed Limit by Frank Owen Pdf

Hells Angels and fallen televangelist Ted Haggard. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, gay sex clubs, college campuses, and military battlefields. In this fascinating book, Frank Owen traces the spread of methamphetamine—meth—from its origins as a cold and asthma remedy to the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture. Meth is the latest "epidemic" to attract the attention of law enforcement and the media, but like cocaine and heroin its roots are medicinal. It was first synthesized in the late nineteenth century and applied in treatment of a wide range of ailments; by the 1940s meth had become a wonder drug, used to treat depression, hyperactivity, obesity, epilepsy, and addictions to other drugs and alcohol. Allied, Nazi, and Japanese soldiers used it throughout World War II, and the returning waves of veterans drove demand for meth into the burgeoning postwar suburbs, where it became the "mother's helper" for a bored and lonely generation. But meth truly exploded in the 1960s and '70s, when biker gang cooks using burners, beakers, and plastic tubes brought their expertise from California to the Ozarks, the Southwest, and other remote rural areas where the drug could be manufactured in kitchen labs. Since then, meth has been the target of billions of dollars in federal, state, and local anti-drug wars. Murders, violent assaults, thefts, fires, premature births, and AIDS—rises in all of these have been blamed on the drug that crosses classes and subcultures like no other. Acclaimed journalist Frank Owen follows the users, cooks, dealers, and law enforcers to uncover a dramatic story being played out in cities, small towns, and farm communities across America. No Speed Limit is a panoramic, high-octane investigation by a journalist who knows firsthand the powerful highs and frightening lows of meth.

Author : Laura Bickle
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062389862

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Dark Alchemy by Laura Bickle Pdf

Stephen King's The Gunslinger meets Breaking Bad in Laura Bickle's novel Dark Alchemy. Some secrets are better left buried … Geologist Petra Dee arrives in Wyoming seeking clues to her father's disappearance years ago. What she finds instead is Temperance, a dying western town with a gold rush past and a meth-infested present. But under the dust and quiet, an old power is shifting. When bodies start turning up—desiccated and twisted skeletons that Petra can't scientifically explain—her investigations land her in the middle of a covert war between the town's most powerful interests. Petra's father wasn't the only one searching for the alchemical secrets of Temperance, and those still looking are now ready to kill. Armed with nothing but shaky alliances, a pair of antique guns, and a relic she doesn't understand, the only thing Petra knows for sure is that she and her coyote sidekick are going to have to move fast—or die next.

Author : Joshua Neves,Aleena Chia,Susanna Paasonen,Ravi Sundaram
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452968032

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Technopharmacology by Joshua Neves,Aleena Chia,Susanna Paasonen,Ravi Sundaram Pdf

Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals Being on social media, having pornography or an internet addiction, consciousness hacking, and mundane smartness initiatives are practices embodied in a similar manner to the swallowing of a pill. Such close relations of media technologies to pharmaceuticals and pharmacology is the focus of this book. Technopharmacology is a modest call to expand media theoretical inquiry by attending to the biological, neurological, and pharmacological dimensions of media and centers on emergent affinities between big data and big pharma.

Author : Elias Ashmole
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781602068940

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Theatrum Chemicum Brittannicum by Elias Ashmole Pdf

"To All Ingeniously Elaborate Students, In the most Divine Mysteries of Hermetique Learning." Or so British politician and Freemason ELIAS ASHMOLE (1617-1692) dedicated this curious artifact of the esoteric and spiritual philosophy of alchemy. An avid collector of antiquaries and other oddities (they were, upon his death, bequeathed to Oxford University, which used them to found the Ashmolean Museum), Ashmole counted among his treasures volumes of metaphysical poems available only in private, and fiercely guarded, manuscripts. In 1652, though, he collected many of these writings in this hefty tome, annotated with his own comments. Included are: . "The Ordinall of Alchimy" by Thomas Norton . "The Compound of Alchymie" by Sir George Ripley . "Liber Patris Sapientiae" . "The Tale of the Chanons Yeoman" by Geoffry Chaucer . "The Worke of John Dastin" . "The Hunting of the Greene Lyon" by the Viccar of Malden . "Bloomsfields Blossoms: Or, The Campe of Philosophy" . "Sir Ed Kelley Concerning the Philosopher's Stone" . and much more. Once a resource for such natural philosophers as Isaac Newton, the Theatrum Chemicum Brittannicum remains an astonishing album of arcania.

Author : Mindy Greiling
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781452963853

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Fix What You Can by Mindy Greiling Pdf

One mother’s fight to support her son and change a broken system In his early twenties, Mindy Greiling’s son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator who struggled, along with her husband, to navigate and improve the state’s inadequate mental health system. Fix What You Can is an illuminating and frank account of caring for a person with a mental illness, told by a parent and advocate. Greiling describes challenges shared by many families, ranging from the practical (medication compliance, housing, employment) to the heartbreaking—suicide attempts, victimization, and illicit drug use. Greiling confronts the reality that some people with serious mental illness may be dangerous and reminds us that medication works—if taken. The book chronicles her efforts to pass legislation to address problems in the mental health system, including obstacles to parental access to information and insufficient funding for care and research. It also recounts Greiling’s painful memories of her grandmother, who was confined in an institution for twenty-three years—recollections that strengthen her determination that Jim’s treatment be more humane. Written with her son’s cooperation, Fix What You Can offers hard-won perspective, practical advice, and useful resources through a brave and personal story that takes the long view of what success means when coping with mental illness.

Author : Amy C. Sullivan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452962559

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Opioid Reckoning by Amy C. Sullivan Pdf

Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic America’s opioid epidemic continues to ravage families and communities, despite intense media coverage, federal legislation, criminal prosecutions, and harm reduction efforts to prevent overdose deaths. More than 450,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since the late 1990s. In Opioid Reckoning, Amy C. Sullivan explores the complexity of the crisis through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery. Nearly everyone in the United States has been touched in some way by the opioid epidemic, including the author and her family. Sullivan uses her own story as a launching point to learn how the opioid epidemic challenged longstanding recovery protocols in Minnesota, a state internationally recognized for pioneering addiction treatment. By centering the voices of many people who have experienced opioid use, treatment, recovery, and loss, Sullivan exposes the devastating effects of a one-size-fits-all approach toward treatment of opioid dependency. Taking a clear-eyed, nonjudgmental perspective of every aspect of these issues—drug use, parenting, harm reduction, medication, abstinence, and stigma—Opioid Reckoning questions current treatment models, healthcare inequities, and the criminal justice system. Sullivan also imagines a future where anyone suffering an opioid-use disorder has access to the individualized care, without judgment, available to those with other health problems. Opioid Reckoning presents a captivating look at how the state that invented “rehab” addresses the challenges of the opioid epidemic and its overdose deaths while also taking readers into the intimate lives of families, medical and social work professionals, grassroots activists, and many others impacted by the crisis who contribute their insights and potential solutions. In sharing these stories and chronicling their lessons, Sullivan offers a path forward that cultivates empathy, love, and hope for anyone affected by chaotic drug use and its harms.

Author : William Powell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781387570225

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The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell Pdf

The Anarchist Cookbook will shock, it will disturb, it will provoke. It places in historical perspective an era when "Turn on, Burn down, Blow up" are revolutionary slogans of the day. Says the author" "This book... is not written for the members of fringe political groups, such as the Weatherman, or The Minutemen. Those radical groups don't need this book. They already know everything that's in here. If the real people of America, the silent majority, are going to survive, they must educate themselves. That is the purpose of this book." In what the author considers a survival guide, there is explicit information on the uses and effects of drugs, ranging from pot to heroin to peanuts. There i detailed advice concerning electronics, sabotage, and surveillance, with data on everything from bugs to scramblers. There is a comprehensive chapter on natural, non-lethal, and lethal weapons, running the gamut from cattle prods to sub-machine guns to bows and arrows.

Author : Gordon Dahlquist
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307755575

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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume One by Gordon Dahlquist Pdf

Here begins an extraordinary alliance—and a brutal and tender, shocking, and electrifying adventure to end all adventures. It starts with a simple note. Roger Bascombe regretfully wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. Determined to find out why, Miss Temple takes the first step in a journey that will propel her into a dizzyingly seductive, utterly shocking world beyond her imagining—and set her on a collision course with a killer and a spy—in a bodice-ripping, action-packed roller-coaster ride of suspense, betrayal, and richly fevered dreams.

Author : Jonah Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Installations (Art)
ISBN : UCSD:31822036416600

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Hello Meth Lab in the Sun by Jonah Freeman Pdf

Text by Liam Gillick, Alison de Lima Greene, David Hollander, Raimundas Malasauskas. Installation photography by Bill Diodato.

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 145290006X

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Modernity At Large by Arjun Appadurai Pdf

Author : Lorie Eve Dechar
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781633411593

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The Alchemy of Inner Work by Lorie Eve Dechar Pdf

“My sincere hope is that everyone will read this treasure trove of essential inner knowledge. This book is a magnificent accomplishment." -- Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Alchemy is the science of transformation—how to change one thing into something else. In The Alchemy of Inner Work, Dechar and Fox examine how illness, suffering, and dis-ease—the “lead” of our lives—can become the “gold” of our authentic selves, and the key to good health and well-being. Drawing on traditional Chinese medicine, Eastern and Western alchemical traditions, Kabbalah, and Jungian psychology—plus case studies from working with patients—the authors provide hands-on insights for bringing “the soul of medicine” back into our lives. The book includes: A simple introduction to the ancient practices and principles alchemy How the alchemical model offers a profoundly new path to true health and well-being An array of practices for removing the barriers that block our own healing energy An invitation to alchemical “dream work” as a support on the path of healing

Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Union Square & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Breaking bad (Television program : 2008-2013)
ISBN : 1454916737

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Breaking Bad by David Thomson Pdf

The ultimate official guide to Breaking Bad--one of the most critically acclaimed series ever produced. Adapted and expanded from an interactive e-book available only on the iPad, it's filled with insider secrets, interpretations of the show's iconography, a series timeline, exclusive interviews with creator Vince Gilligan, and much more. Bad fans will enjoy the many new images, and insightful commentary by world-renowned film critic David Thomson.

Author : Alex Andrews
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 1514265788

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Crystal Meth Addiction by Alex Andrews Pdf

This book is written for all those lost souls who are stuck in the darkness of Meth addiction. Meth Addiction is one of the major leading problems in this society and is an issue many people are struggling with. This book sheds light on Crystal Meth addiction and contain numerous unknown facts about this drug. By reading this book you will learn useful and lifesaving information about this addiction. If you are an abuser, you will learn about the extensive damage this drug does to the body. In the difficult times of your life you might think that this drug is the solution to your problems, but in actuality it only adds more problems. Have you been trying to quit or finding it hard to make up your mind to quit? Do you want to learn more about this drug? Do you want to know how this drug works and damages your brain? Do you want to know how you can you help a loved one who is using? This book provides tips, information, facts about the addiction, how to better cope, along with advice on treatments, and the best methods for the road to total recovery. By reading this book you find crucial information about crystal meth addiction: Some important information you will find in this book: - History of Crystal Meth - Why it is so Addictive? - Its impact on mind and body - Facts about Meth Addiction - The stages of Meth Experiences

Author : Jason Pine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 0816676011

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The Art of Making Do in Naples by Jason Pine Pdf

"The Art of Making Do in Naples offers a riveting ethnography of the lives of men seeking personal sovereignty in a shadow economy dominated by violent organized crime networks. Jason Pine's trenchant observations and his own improvised attempts at "making do" provide a fascinating look into the lives of people in the gray zones where organized crime blends into ordinary life"--