[HN Gopher] Frighteningly strong meth has supercharged homelessness
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       Frighteningly strong meth has supercharged homelessness
        
       Author : bkohlmann
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-12-06 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | mrguyorama wrote:
       | "Frighteningly strong" is just a purposely stupid way of saying
       | "Pure", otherwise known as won't poison you, other than the ways
       | meth poisons you anyway.
       | 
       | Besides, most homeless people in my state are getting fucked over
       | by fentanyl, not meth.
        
       | retrac wrote:
       | Street meth is often quite pure (>90% is not unusual) and this
       | has been true for decades. With that in mind, I can't really
       | figure out what this alleged supermeth being referred to could
       | be.
       | 
       | I think the trend here is pretty simple: high-purity crystal meth
       | has become significantly cheaper over time, enabling people to
       | engage in sustained binges at high doses that are both just
       | deranging (imagine a week of no sleep) and particularly at high
       | doses, neurotoxic. So, more meth-crazy people. Where I live, it's
       | roughly 1/5th what it cost twenty years ago.
        
         | reducesuffering wrote:
         | P2P meth
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         | https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/articles/p2p-meth
        
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           | amanaplanacanal wrote:
           | I've read this theory before, that the removal of ephedrine
           | from the market has led to starting with different precursors
           | and a more dangerous end product. It's unclear to me whether
           | there is actually anything to this theory though.
        
             | fieryskiff11 wrote:
        
           | fieryskiff11 wrote:
        
       | zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
       | Why would anyone want meth that's not strong? Weak meth could be
       | cut with anything
        
       | solarmist wrote:
       | Homelessness causes meth (drug use) not the other way around.
       | This is an oversimplification, but drug use is a coping mechanism
       | not a cause.
       | 
       | There was a great article floating around around 10 years ago
       | (can't find it now) about being homeless for a year or so and the
       | worst part of it (as I read it) was the HUGE stretches of time
       | that you literally needed to kill because you don't have access
       | to most distractions.
        
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