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The Alchemy of Meth - A Decomposition (Hardcover, 1)
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The Alchemy of Meth - A Decomposition (Hardcover, 1)
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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.
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