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Policing methamphetamine
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.
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Meth Wars
How the War on Drugs is maintained through racism,authority and public opinion.
From the hit television series Breaking Bad , to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly publicized world-wide hunts for “narcoterrorists” such as Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public’s imagination. In Meth Wars , Travis Linnemann situates the meth epidemic within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration.
Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship to show how methamphetamine, and the drug war more generally, are part of a larger governing strategy that animates the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated concerns such as environmental dangers, the politics of immigration and national security, policing tactics, and terrorism. The author’s unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the supposed “meth epidemic” allows politicians, small town police and government counter-narcotics agents to engage in a singular policing project in service to the broader economic and geostrategic interests of the United States.
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The Alchemy of Meth
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 workanywhere 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.
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Methamphetamine : a love story
\"Methamphetamine: A Love Story presents an insider's view into the lived experience of immersion in the world of methamphetamine. In-depth interviews were conducted with 33 adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing. Detailed accounts bring insight into the intoxicating aspects of the lifestyle including sex, money, power, and the ability to create methamphetamine. Social networks and environment play an important role in shaping and influencing drug-related decisions. The transformation of the lifestyle from one that is intoxicating to one that becomes risky and ultimately dark explains the unsustainability and the challenges exiting the life\"--Provided by publisher.
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Policing methamphetamine : narcopolitics in rural America / William Garriott
From the publisher. 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.
eBook
Methamphetamine : a love story
Methamphetamine: A Love Story presents an insider's view of the world of methamphetamine based on the life stories of thirty-three adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing meth in rural Oklahoma. Using a respectful tone towards her subjects, Shukla illuminates their often decades-long love affair with the drug, the attractions of the lifestyle, the eventual unsustainability of it, and the challenges of exiting the life. These personal stories reveal how and why people with limited economic means and inadequate resources become entrapped in the drug epidemic, while challenging longstanding societal views about addiction, drugs, drug policy, and public health.
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