meth

As Prisons Shutter Classes and Mental Health Care, Drugs Fill the Gap

I first met David "Lucky" Kestner about 15 years ago, when we were both incarcerated at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution…

January 24, 2024

Meth Was the Routine in Our Biker Club. Psychedelics Were the Escapes.

I was a fan of psychedelics long before I got ahold of any. Such exotic drugs as LSD were not…

October 23, 2023

Selling Meth Sent Him to Prison. It Also Saved His Life.

Louis Bell was a type of person we typically didn’t encounter in our Tennessee prison. A middle-aged white man with…

October 18, 2023

Media Never Changed Its 1970s PCP Propaganda, Just Repurposed It

In 1927, a family in Mexico City ate cannabis leaves by accident. The father had just been killed, and with…

October 10, 2023

Meth Users Don’t Need Meds to Avoid OD. We Need Them to Avoid Cops.

On July 19, the National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded over $4.3 million to InterveXion Therapeutics, an Arkansas-based biopharmaceutical company…

July 25, 2023

A Prison Breakup Tested My Meth Recovery. Alcohol Helped Me Keep It.

I met Paul in 2018, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. I was an admin orderly; he was a new…

June 28, 2023

Meth Overamps Come in Two Forms. Mostly the One We Don’t Talk About.

To people who don't use meth, "overamp" means uncontrolled adrenaline. The term refers to overdose of stimulants and has come…

April 13, 2023

Meth Harm Reduction and the Adderall Shortage

For most of my 20s, running out of Adderall was the problem that put everything else on hold. If my…

April 10, 2023

A Harm Reduction Guide to Better Booty-Bumping Kits

Every drug user I talk to regularly has heard my case for putting drugs up your butt. It's a conversation…

January 13, 2023

Ottawa Decriminalization Moves Accelerate Amid Shift to Meth

Ottawa may not have advanced as far as some neighboring municipalities—like Toronto or Montreal—when it comes to formal proposals for…

November 3, 2021