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Drug experts are not surprised. The stimulant known as speed, embraced in the 1970s by outlaw bikers, all-night revelers, exam-bound college students and long-haul truckers, is more popular than ever, with teens and middle-class workers and suburbanites swelling the ranks of users. Meth production is surging in clandestine labs set up by drug syndicates and individual users alike. "It's absolutely epidemic," declares John Coonce, head of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration's meth-lab task force...
Methamphetamine use is especially prevalent in Western states. Meth-related hospital admissions rose 366% over 10 years in California. Arizona's Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, reports methamphetamine-linked crimes have jumped almost 400% in three years. And the drug is spreading rapidly across the U.S. In recent months, officials have seized huge shipments of methamphetamine originating in Mississippi and Tennessee...
...Meth has always been the poor man's cocaine. Like coke, it can be smoked, snorted or injected, but "it's much cheaper and it gives people a longer high," notes Ed Mayer, head of the Jackson County, Oregon, Narcotics Enforcement Team. For decades, its manufacture and distribution was a low-level enterprise dominated by motorcycle gangs. The current surge is driven by powerful Mexican syndicates, which have found that meth offers far greater profit margins than cocaine or heroin...
...Southern Meth...
...sour, which is an art, and one she is good at. But her hobbies, shoplifting clothes from Bergdorf and ingesting methamphetamine, which she does quite often from the tip of her jackknife blade, don't foretell a long and happy life. She is a diabetic, in addition, and her meth addiction worsens a deteriorating eye condition whose far end is blindness...