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.
General
| Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2006 |
| First published: |
February 2006 |
| Authors: |
Sterling R Braswell
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
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| Pages: |
172 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-595-83639-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
Abnormal psychology
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-595-83639-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780595836390 |
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