A New, Cheaper Form of Meth Is Wreaking Havoc on America - The Atlantic
Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem. Subscribe to Listen to this Article 00:00 52:53 Listen to more stories on Audm In the fall of 2006, law enforcement on the southwest border of the United States seized some crystal methamphetamine. In due course, a five-gram sample of that seizure landed on the desk of a 31-year-old chemist named Joe Bozenko, at the Drug Enforcement Administration lab outside Washington, D.C. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Organic chemistry can be endlessly manipulated, with compounds that, like Lego bricks, can be used to build almost anything. The field seems to breed folks whose every waking minute is spent puzzling over chemical reactions. Bozenko, a garrulous man with a wide smile, worked in the DEA lab during the day and taught chemistry at a local university in the evenings. “Chemist by day, chemist by night,” his Twit
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