Methamphetamine: A Love Story

by Rashi K. Shukla

Overview

Methamphetamine: A Love Story presents an insider’s view of the world of methamphetamine based on the life stories of thirty-three adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing meth in rural Oklahoma. Using a respectful tone towards her subjects, Shukla illuminates their often decades-long love affair with the drug, the attractions of the lifestyle, the eventual unsustainability of it, and the challenges of exiting the life. These personal stories reveal how and why people with limited economic means and inadequate resources become entrapped in the drug epidemic, while challenging longstanding societal views about addiction, drugs, drug policy, and public health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520291010
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	07/05/2016
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Rashi K. Shukla is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Oklahoma. She received her PhD in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University and has served as lead investigator of a multimethod study of the methamphetamine problem for more than a decade. Her research, which focuses on offender decision-making and the evolution of drug problems, has been presented in numerous forums, both nationally and internationally. Learn more about Rashi Shukla at: https://rashishukla.com/methamphetamine-a-love-story/. 

Table of Contents

Foreword by Marcus Felson
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note

1 An Introduction to Darkness
2 Pathways to Methamphetamine
3 Loving Meth
4 Dealing Meth
5 Manufacturing Meth
6 An Intoxicating Life
7 A Risky Life
8 A Dark Life
9 Life after Meth
10 The Journey Ends?

Appendix A: Methamphetamine Laboratory Indicators
Notes
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Shukla has succeeded in rendering palpable the initial attraction and subsequent misery so often associated with addiction.”

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

"A captivating read, valuable to students, researchers, and policymakers who will come to see why simple, reactive solutions to methamphetamine’s hold will never suffice. Shukla gives us fair warning." 

Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books