‘I DON’T KNOW THAT I WOULD EVEN CALL IT METH ANYMORE’

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Could be a lot of reasons for the issues we are seeing especially on the West Coast (homelessness, crime, etc.).  This P2P Meth  is really nasty.  This is a long read, but quite well written.

 

 

‘I DON’T KNOW THAT I WOULD EVEN CALL IT METH ANYMORE’

 

How could this crisis emerge so quietly and remain, in many ways, invisible to most Americans? One reason, perhaps, is the national focus on the opioid epidemic, which was itself ignored for a long time. In recent years, the headlines have been about pain-pill or heroin overdoses, then fentanyl overdoses, and the funding has followed. Besides, deaths, however tragic, allow for memorials, a chance to remember the deceased’s better days. Meth doesn’t kill people at nearly the same rate as opioids. It presents, instead, the rawest face of living addiction. That part of addiction, one counselor told me, “people don’t want to touch it.”

 

There is no central villain in the P2P-meth story—no Purdue Pharma, no dominant cartel. There’s no single entity to target, either. So the issue is often enveloped in a willful myopia. Advocates for homeless people seem reluctant to speak out about the drug, for fear that the downtrodden will be blamed for their troubles.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new-meth/620174/