The devil's drug the global emergence of crystal meth / Teun Voeten.

Author/creator Voeten, Teun
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2025]
Descriptionx, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Uniform titleDrug van de duivel. English
Contents Introduction -- The Bizarre History of Crystal Meth: From State Approved Energizer Drug to the Underground -- Tijuana: A Failed City in the Grip of Meth -- Trends in Worldwide Production and Trafficking -- Michoacán: The Perfect Cartel Clusterfuck -- The Netherlands as a Functional Narco-State -- Sinaloa: Welcome to Narco Central -- Users: Trends and Patterns in Consumption -- Chemsex in Amsterdam: Lust Unlimited -- The Pharmacological Dimension of Crystal Meth -- Prague: Meth as Rebellion -- Chemistry 101: Making Meth and How Many Roads Lead to Rome -- Afghanistan: Opium and Organic Meth -- Demonizing Crystal Meth: Breaking Bad, Faces of Meth, and Social Constructs -- Skid Row, Downtown Los Angeles: From Winos to Crackheads to Tweakers -- The Golden Triangle: Crystal Meth Free Trade Zone -- Shaking and Baking in Cadillac and the Strange Case of Uncle Fester -- Brabant: From Smuggling Butter to Brewing Moonshine, from Weed and XTC to Meth -- Is Fentanyl the New Crystal Meth? The Tentative Low of the Opioid Crisis -- Are the Mexican Cartels Coming to the Netherlands? -- Conclusions and Future Expectations.
Abstract "With a combination of thorough investigative journalism, daring fieldwork, and colorful atmospheric sketches, Voeten draws a very detailed and disturbing picture of a drug that is on a rapid international rise"-- Provided by publisher.
General note"Originally published in 2022 as Drug van de duivel: de wereldwijde opmars van crystal meth in Dutch by Pelckmans" -- title page verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2024027904
ISBN9781538198612 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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