{"product_id":"no-speed-limit-the-highs-and-lows-of-meth-paperback","title":"No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank Owen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHell's Angels and fallen televangelists. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, urban clubs, college campuses, and military battle?elds. Methamphetamine is the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike cocaine and heroin, meth was ?rst synthesized for medicinal purposes. By the 1940s, it was a wonder drug used to treat depression, hyperactivity, obesity, epilepsy, asthma, and addictions to other drugs and alcohol. But meth truly exploded years later when biker gang cooks using burners, beakers, and plastic tubes brought their expertise to remote rural areas where the drug could be manufactured in kitchen labs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcclaimed journalist Frank Owen follows users, cooks, dealers, doctors, and cops to uncover the dramatic story taking place in cities, small towns, and farm communities across America. \u003ci\u003eNo Speed Limit\u003c\/i\u003e is a panoramic, high-octane investigation by a journalist who knows ?rsthand the powerful highs and frightening lows of meth.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHells Angels and fallen televangelist Ted Haggard. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, gay sex clubs, college campuses, and military battlefields. In this fascinating book, Frank Owen traces the spread of methamphetamine--meth--from its origins as a cold and asthma remedy to the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture. \u003cbr\u003e Meth is the latest \"epidemic\" to attract the attention of law enforcement and the media, but like cocaine and heroin its roots are medicinal. It was first synthesized in the late nineteenth century and applied in treatment of a wide range of ailments; by the 1940s meth had become a wonder drug, used to treat depression, hyperactivity, obesity, epilepsy, and addictions to other drugs and alcohol. Allied, Nazi, and Japanese soldiers used it throughout World War II, and the returning waves of veterans drove demand for meth into the burgeoning postwar suburbs, where it became the \"mother's helper\" for a bored and lonely generation.\u003cbr\u003e But meth truly exploded in the 1960s and '70s, when biker gang cooks using burners, beakers, and plastic tubes brought their expertise from California to the Ozarks, the Southwest, and other remote rural areas where the drug could be manufactured in kitchen labs. Since then, meth has been the target of billions of dollars in federal, state, and local anti-drug wars. Murders, violent assaults, thefts, fires, premature births, and AIDS--rises in all of these have been blamed on the drug that crosses classes and subcultures like no other.\u003cbr\u003e Acclaimed journalist Frank Owen follows the users, cooks, dealers, and law enforcers to uncover a dramatic story being played out in cities, small towns, and farmcommunities across America. \"No Speed Limit\" is a panoramic, high-octane investigation by a journalist who knows firsthand the powerful highs and frightening lows of meth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFRANK OWEN has been a journalist for ?fteen years, writing for \u003ci\u003ePlayboy, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes, The Village Voice, Newsday, The \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Post, Spin, Details, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVibe, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other publications. His critically acclaimed book \u003ci\u003eClubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture, \u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2003 by St. Martin's Press. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.32 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52913712202035,"sku":"9780312356170","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/o_4LHTA0R19780312356170.webp?v=1767171329","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/no-speed-limit-the-highs-and-lows-of-meth-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}