Methland
Nick Reding’s account of Oelwein, Iowa, a small town overtaken by methamphetamine. He follows a doctor, a prosecutor, a mayor and a group of addicts, and ties the drug’s spread to the decline of rural economies, the meatpacking industry and the pharmaceutical supply chain.
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Adam Haslett
This is a book which I have just finished reading. I don’t know how much methamphetamine there is in Britain. It’s a drug that in World War II was used by soldiers on both sides of the war in milder doses. It is basically something that keeps you awake and charged up and gives you a high. This book is an account of how it has become a plague of sorts in American farming communities.
Interview · July 2010
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