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In the series’s fifth and final episode, the narrative links back up with the present. Synthetic drugs like meth and heroin are being seized in their highest quantities to-date, and deadly overdose rates have reached new heights. What can be done? And what can the newfound popularity of harm reduction offer the debate?

Rebroadcast with permission from Public News Service and The Daily Yonder. Originally recorded on April 5, 2024.

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As the U.S. found ways to successfully limit domestic production of methamphetamine, Mexican drug traffickers innovated new, high-volume production methods. Meth became very potent and very cheap, and began to infiltrate new American drug markets. What does this new system mean for the illicit drug supply? How does it affect people using and policing meth in the U.S.?

Rebroadcast with permission from Public News Service and The Daily Yonder. Originally recorded on March 29, 2024.

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In 1999, the state of Missouri destroyed more than 900 clandestine meth labs. Among the officers tasked with carrying out that constant cleanup process, fear reigned. In response, the state trained an astronomical amount of resources on understanding the problem. A slew of state and federal laws were passed to limit access to meth’s precursor chemicals. But meth cooks got scrappy, replacing older recipes with new, soda-bottle scale techniques. What was it like to police meth in this era? What was it like to use it?

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Rebroadcast with permission from Public News Service and The Daily Yonder. Originally recorded on March 22, 2024.

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In the 1950s, meth was available over the counter. In the 1960s, it was still unscheduled by the FDA and widely prescribed by doctors. All kinds of people – among them housewives, truckers, and college students – used the stimulant to induce weight loss, wakefulness, and high spirits. But in 1971 meth was reclassified as one of the nation’s most dangerous drugs and its legal production quickly fell by 90 percent. Demand, on the other hand, persisted, and outlaw biker gangs stepped into the supply vacuum. How’d biker gangs come to dominate the meth trade in the 80s? And why did they eventually lose control of it?

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Rebroadcast with permission from Public News Service and The Daily Yonder. Originally recorded on March 15, 2024.

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In the early 2000s, the “Faces of Meth” were tacked to cork boards in high school hallways and the nightly news was full of meth lab explosions. In this period, the stimulant was stigmatized as a white trash drug, and thought to favor rural trailer parks and farmhouses over inner-city drug dens. Today, however, meth use is growing fastest among non-white populations and rapidly infiltrating big, east-coast cities like New York and Boston. What changed? And why was meth seen as a hillbilly drug in the first place?

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Rebroadcast with permission from Public News Service and The Daily Yonder. Originally recorded on March 8, 2024.

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