Methamphetamine : a love story / Rashi K. Shukla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shukla, Rashi K., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methamphetamine abuse--Social aspects--United States.

Methamphetamine abuse.

Drug traffic--Social aspects--United States.

Drug traffic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Place of Publication:

2016.

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

1. An Introduction to Darkness

2. Pathways to Methamphetamine

3. Loving Meth

4. Dealing Meth

5. Manufacturing Meth

6. An Intoxicating Life

7. A Risky Life

8. A Dark Life

9. Life after Meth

10. The Journey Ends?

Appendix A: Methamphetamine Laboratory Indicators

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520964891

0520964896

OCLC:

934101957