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10-15-2006, 04:12 PM
TV Review: The World’s Most Dangerous Drug
http://smallscreen.monstersandcritics.com/article_1211360.php/TV_Review_The_World’s_Most_Dangerous_Drug
From Monsters and Critics.com
Smallscreen Reviews
TV Review: The World’s Most Dangerous Drug
By Ronald Wilkinson
Oct 15, 2006, 19:00 GMT
Packing over three times the wallop of cocaine and costing a third as much it’s not hard to see why crystal methamphetamine has overtaken coke as the world’s number one high. New users feel the sudden rush of energy and self-assurance and put the humiliating physical and mental destruction aside.
Even so, the damage awaits the steady user as sure as sunrise: the pock-marked skin, the terminal paranoia, empty sockets where teeth used to be and, worst of all, the inability to experience any pleasure outside the drug’s ever-decreasing rush. Meth, crystal, crank, tina, ya-ba in Thailand and going by a hundred different names in a hundred different countries, methamphetamine has become a way of life and the world’s newest drug pandemic.
The why’s and how’s of the ranking Trojan horse of illegal drugs are explored from cradle, to grave, in the upcoming national Geo special.
Thought to have been first synthesized in Japan about a century ago, meth was used by both Axis and Allied troops in WWII to maintain wakefulness during long stressful hours without sleep. Japanese suicide pilots were thought to have used heavy doses of the drug to fuel their courage and stamina during their last rides into American warships.
http://smallscreen.monstersandcritics.com/article_1211360.php/TV_Review_The_World’s_Most_Dangerous_Drug
From Monsters and Critics.com
Smallscreen Reviews
TV Review: The World’s Most Dangerous Drug
By Ronald Wilkinson
Oct 15, 2006, 19:00 GMT
Packing over three times the wallop of cocaine and costing a third as much it’s not hard to see why crystal methamphetamine has overtaken coke as the world’s number one high. New users feel the sudden rush of energy and self-assurance and put the humiliating physical and mental destruction aside.
Even so, the damage awaits the steady user as sure as sunrise: the pock-marked skin, the terminal paranoia, empty sockets where teeth used to be and, worst of all, the inability to experience any pleasure outside the drug’s ever-decreasing rush. Meth, crystal, crank, tina, ya-ba in Thailand and going by a hundred different names in a hundred different countries, methamphetamine has become a way of life and the world’s newest drug pandemic.
The why’s and how’s of the ranking Trojan horse of illegal drugs are explored from cradle, to grave, in the upcoming national Geo special.
Thought to have been first synthesized in Japan about a century ago, meth was used by both Axis and Allied troops in WWII to maintain wakefulness during long stressful hours without sleep. Japanese suicide pilots were thought to have used heavy doses of the drug to fuel their courage and stamina during their last rides into American warships.