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American Meth

Author : Sterling R Braswell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595380212
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book American Meth written by Sterling R Braswell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Methland

Author : Nick Reding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191567
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Methland written by Nick Reding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Least of Us

Author : Sam Quinones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635578582
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Least of Us written by Sam Quinones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Policing Methamphetamine

Author : William Garriott
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814732410
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Policing Methamphetamine written by William Garriott and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Alchemy of Meth

Author : Jason Pine
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452961271
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Alchemy of Meth written by Jason Pine and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Annual Report of the American Bible Society

Author : American Bible Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the American Bible Society written by American Bible Society and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.

Meth

Author : Dirk Johnson
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9781592853052
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Meth written by Dirk Johnson and published by Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services. This book was released on 2005 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing look at the personal, social, and environmental impact of America's newest drug abuse trend. Methamphetamine has been around for decades, but the recent surge in clandestine “cooking” labs in homes, hotel rooms, and even cars has made this toxic stimulant exceptionally affordable, accessible, and dangerous. With staggering facts and up-to-the-minute information, award-winning journalist Dirk Johnson has written the definitive book about America's methamphetamine pandemic. Johnson examines the unprecedented physical, mental, social, and environmental destruction caused by meth use and meth production. He explains why this drug is so harmful, how it differs from other drugs, and how it has devastated individuals, families, and communities. While the facts are decidedly discouraging, Johnson describes successful national, state, and local efforts to fight meth production and prevent addiction, and shares hopeful stories from recovering meth addicts.

No Speed Limit

Author : Frank Owen
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466853093
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book No Speed Limit written by Frank Owen and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Meth, 2nd Edition

Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 1467703842
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Meth, 2nd Edition written by Elaine Landau and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Methamphetamine

Author : Ralph Weisheit
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1592858384
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Methamphetamine written by Ralph Weisheit and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on the impact of methamphetamine on individuals, communities, and society by two of America's leading addiction and criminal justice experts. In recent years, the media have inundated us with coverage of the horrors that befall methamphetamine users, and the fires, explosions, and toxic waste created by meth labs that threaten the well-being of innocent people. In Methamphetamine: Its History, Pharmacology, and Treatment, the first book in Hazelden's Library of Addictive Drugs series, Ralph Weisheit and William L. White examine the nature and extent of meth use in the United States, from meth's early reputation as a "wonder drug" to the current perception that it is a "scourge" of society.In separating fact from fiction, Weisheit and White provide context for understanding the meth problem by tracing its history and the varying patterns of use over time, then offer an in-depth look at:the latest scientific findings on the drug's effects on individualsthe myths and realities of the drug's impact on the mindthe national and international implications of methamphetamine productionthe drug's impact on rural communities, including a case study of two counties in the Midwestissues in addiction and treatment of meth.Thoroughly researched and highly readable, Methamphetamine offers a comprehensive understanding of medical, social, and political issues concerning this highly impactful drug.Written for professionals and serious lay readers by nationally recognized experts, the books in the Library of Addictive Drugs series feature in-depth, comprehensive, and up-to-date information on the most commonly abused mood-altering substances.

The Truth About Methamphetamine and Crystal Meth

Author : Frank Spalding
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448846412
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book The Truth About Methamphetamine and Crystal Meth written by Frank Spalding and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the effects of methamphetamine and crystal meth and provides information about drug testing, dependence and withdrawal, and finding treatment.

Fighting meth in America's heartland

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting meth in America's heartland written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Meth Monster

Author : D. C. Fuller
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434338347
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Meth Monster written by D. C. Fuller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RUDE, CRUDE and SOCIALLY UNATTRACTIVE, "Meth Monster" is the autobiography of a 25 year meth user from the cradle to the gutter. Chronicling the manic decline on the downbound train, spiraling to the bottom of the abyss of meth addiction and the lives and life lost to the lifelong psychotic episode that is the life of a crankster. The 11 year battle with depression and overcoming the desire to return to the vaccuum of meth use and a look at the reasons meth is the most addictive and all-consuming drug ever created by man to enslave men and reduce them to walking deadmen. NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE AND THERE ARE MORE WAYS THAN ONE TO DIE!!!!! - From publisher

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

Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1422332756
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Meth in Americas Heartland: Assesing Fedral State and Local Efforts written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crystal Meth

Author : Jeremy Harrow
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435843924
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Crystal Meth written by Jeremy Harrow and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Methland

Author : Nick Reding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192075
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Methland written by Nick Reding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the efforts of a small Iowa community to counter the pervasiveness of crystal methamphetamine, in an account that offers insight into the drug's appeal while chronicling the author's numerous visits with the town's doctor, the local prosecutor and a long-time addict. Reprint. A best-selling book.

Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction

Author : Steven J. Lee
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0786735538
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction written by Steven J. Lee and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Overcoming Crystal Methamphetamine Addiction, one of the few books to address the topic for a general audience, Dr. Steven Lee, MD, a psychiatrist who specializes in crystal meth addiction, offers a complete guide to the drug, its effects, and how to overcome it. Based on extensive scientific and social research and drawing from his professional experience, he covers everything from the definition and history of crystal meth to the physical and psychological effects; from dealing with the addictive personality to helping a friend or family member cope with it. He focuses on understanding rather than outright condemnation of the drug, and empathetically covers all of the crucial questions: What is crystal meth? How is it made? How does it affect the body? How do you know if you're addicted to it? How do you stop using it? What if you don't want to stop? If you are going to use CM anyway, how can you minimize the damage? What if you quit but slipped and used again?