Research Catalog

Title

Meth : the home-cooked menace / Dirk Johnson.

Author

Johnson, Dirk.

Publication

Center City, Minn. : Hazelden, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. med

Description

x, 157 p. : col. ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Methamphetamine has been around for decades, but the recent surge in clandestine "cooking labs" in homes, hotel rooms, and even cars has made this toxic stimulant exceptionally affordable, accessible, and even more dangerous. With staggering facts, heartbreaking stories, and up-to-the-minute information, award-winning journalist Dirk Johnson provides a harrowing look at the personal, social, and environmental destruction caused by meth use and production. Johnson tells of a young Nebraska couple who died of hypothermia because they were too strung out on meth to tell dispatchers how to locate them, a ten-year-old Indiana girl who was murdered after she accidentally happened upon a meth lab in an apartment building, a meth cook whose friends watched him burn to death rather than report the lab fire to authorities." "Despite such horrors, Johnson offers evidence of hope. He points to promising new national, state, and local efforts to fight meth production and prevent addiction, and he shares the heartening stories of several recovering meth addicts." "Here, at last, is the definitive book on what's fast become the nation's sweeping public health pandemic. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Subject

• Illicit Drugs
• Social Problems
• Drug and Narcotic Control
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Methamphetamine > adverse effects
• Methamphetamine abuse
• Methamphetamine
• Substance-Related Disorders
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-147) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The magic of meth -- "Mom and Pop" labs : hitting hard in the heartland -- "Works just as advertised" : women and meth -- Nobody's in charge but meth -- The poisoning of the gay community -- The young faces of meth -- The battle against meth -- Bursting at the seams : drug users behind bars -- A chance to heal.

ISBN

1592853056 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2005051358
• 9781592853052

OCLC

60826702

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library