The “New Meth:” The Atlantic

If you’re working on drug policy, do not miss this article from the Atlantic on how a new form of meth is a likely factor contributing to violence, mental illness, and riots nationwide. Here’s an excerpt:

“Once your eyes are open to the scale and human consequences of the P2P-meth epidemic, it’s hard to miss its ramifications in many areas of American public life. Perhaps the most significant is homelessness.”

Read The Atlantic’s exposure of the updated drug markets — and how new drug market realities have made American life more dangerous, especially in larger cities — in The Atlantic’s November 2021 article “The New Meth.“

Taki Magazine also has absolutely critically relevant information if you seek to view the drug market’s big picture: From Dreamland to Nightmareland. This article from Taki Magazine covers the interrelated market play between fentanyl and meth, and it’s consequences on addicts whose addiction originated with Big Pharma’s OxyContin prescription pushers and army of unscrupulous salespeople.

Here’s the ending to the Atlantic article.

“Perhaps the best defense against epidemics like this one lies in choosing to look more closely and more sympathetically at the people in those hoods—to put a higher priority on community than we’ve done in recent years. America has made itself more vulnerable to scourges, even as those scourges grow more potent. But scourges are also an opportunity: They call on us to reexamine how we live. Until we begin to look out for the most vulnerable among us, there’s no reason to expect them to abate.”

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