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Journalist Owen takes readers on a trip into the world(s) of methamphetamines, from the cook houses in rural and small-town Missouri to latter-day suppliers in Mexico to users across America. In this highly personal travelog of meth making, selling, using, and abusing, Owens shows how a little-known...
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St. Martin's Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2007] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Journalist Owen takes readers on a trip into the world(s) of methamphetamines, from the cook houses in rural and small-town Missouri to latter-day suppliers in Mexico to users across America. In this highly personal travelog of meth making, selling, using, and abusing, Owens shows how a little-known drug first popular with bikers and truckers became a national scourge. In doing so, he debunks many myths about meth addiction and supposed meth-induced antisocial and criminal behavior, and he tracks the ways law enforcement officials from the federal level to local police departments have tried |
| Item Description: | Donation. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 244 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244). |
| ISBN: |
9780312356163 : 0312356161 9780312356170 (pbk.) 031235617X (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | HV5822 |
| CLC: | R969.3-171.2 |
| Call Number: | R969.3-171.2/O973 |
| Contents: | Introduction. Make me a machine -- 1. The rise of Nazi dope -- 2. The devil's drug -- 3. Cooking crank with uncle Fester -- 4. A wonder drug is born -- 5. Chemical control -- 6. Meth capital of America -- 7. The kings of methamphetamine -- 8. Sex and the city -- 9. Mother's little helper -- Epilogue. Epidemic? What epidemic? |