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    No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
    No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
    No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
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    No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth

    By Frank Owen

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    Hells Angels and fallen televangelist Ted Haggard. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, gay sex clubs, college campuses, and military battlefields. In this fascinating book, Frank Owen traces the spread of methamphetamine—meth—from its origins as a cold and asthma remedy to the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture.

    Meth is the latest "epidemic" to attract the attention of law enforcement and the media, but like cocaine and heroin its roots are medicinal. It was first synthesized in the late nineteenth century and applied in treatment of a wide range of ailments; by the 1940s meth had become a wonder drug, used to treat depression, hyperactivity, obesity, epilepsy, and addictions to other drugs and alcohol. Allied, Nazi, and Japanese soldiers used it throughout World War II, and the returning waves of veterans drove demand for meth into the burgeoning postwar suburbs, where it became the "mother's helper" for a bored and lonely generation.

    But meth truly exploded in the 1960s and '70s, when biker gang cooks using burners, beakers, and plastic tubes brought their expertise from California to the Ozarks, the Southwest, and other remote rural areas where the drug could be manufactured in kitchen labs. Since then, meth has been the target of billions of dollars in federal, state, and local anti-drug wars. Murders, violent assaults, thefts, fires, premature births, and AIDS—rises in all of these have been blamed on the drug that crosses classes and subcultures like no other.

    Acclaimed journalist Frank Owen follows the users, cooks, dealers, and law enforcers to uncover a dramatic story being played out in cities, small towns, and farm communities across America. No Speed Limit is a panoramic, high-octane investigation by a journalist who knows firsthand the powerful highs and frightening lows of meth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781466853096
    No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
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    Frank Owen

    Frank Owen has been a journalist for fifteen years, writing for Playboy, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Newsday, The Washington Post, Spin, Details, and Vibe, among other publications. His critically acclaimed book Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture, was published in 2003 by St. Martin’s Press. He lives in New York.

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      Interesting read about the latest high visibility drug "epidemic". Meth use and abuse is nothing new, starting out as a wonder drug in the 1940s that was used to alleviate depression, increase weight loss, and to keep the armed forces on all sides fighting during WW2. It really took off in the 1960s when outlaw biker gangs took control of it, followed by Mexican cartels and of course your rural homebrewers. This covers its history, as well as its impact and its attraction, as well as some of the myths. A fascinating look at an issue that's regularly in the news.

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