Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 11:00 AM EDT
Meth in America
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 11:00 AM EDT
Meth in America
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Journalist Nick Reding (Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town.)grew up in one Midwest: steady, sturdy, a little bit storybook.
He went back and found another. High as a kite on crank – on methamphetamines – and a living wreck.
He honed in on little Olwein, Iowa, lifted the covers, and found a terrible mess: meth, addiction, depravity. And beneath those, roots of despair grounded in a globalized economy gone wrong. Communities – in Olwein and far beyond – left desperately adrift. He’s brought us the story in a book called “Methland.”
Up next, On Point: Nick Reding and “Methland.”
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