But then there are the just plain wrong "facts" in the book: University of Northern Iowa is not in Cedar Rapids (it's in Cedar Falls); Iowa City is NOT the largest city in Iowa (more like 5th! I can see a mom going on a war against meth, for sure I’m going to pick up this book now.
This book will depress you, but you get the information you need to understand. Reding also relates the history of methamphetamine use -- it was given to soldiers during WWII to keep them going for days without sleep or food and prescribed to housewivThis book is about Oelwein, IA - my hometown.

It also tells the story of those not using meth and how their lives are destroyed. This kind of attitude is childish and dangerous. Graphic and disturbing account of how Methamphetamine rose in middle America in the 80's & 90's. I was happy to see the author take on another type of villain, which thoughtful writers and journalists in the US today seem to shy away from, perhaps for fear of being seen as snobbish and/or a member of the so-called “liberal mainstream media”. Oh, by the way, this is a non-fiction work. I wasn’t sure at first that this tactic would work – almost the whole books is told in pieces that bring together his interviews and observations regarding certain key characters and key towns, including Oelwein – but Reding really pulled it off.
Pages: 288 (audio length: 9 hours 25 minutes) Genre: Non-Fiction. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Mr. Reding didn't set his eyes only on Oelwein but any rural communities who have been left behind because of globalization and harmful federal government inactions. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.This page works best with JavaScript. But color me skeptical when I'm told that this generation's drug is yet another incarnation of the WORST DRUG EVER IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND!I've been practicing criminal law for the past 18 years .. 8 years as an assistant district attorney and 10 years as a criminal defense attorney. But that's a tomorrow kind of problem, and the lost users in Iowa and elsewhere know they have no tomorrow anyway. We can't fix America's meth problem without fixing America.

I am most interested in this book and more so now that you say it is excellent ‘narrative NF’.Around here, every time there’s a fire/house explosion, there’s speculation that it was a meth lab. Methland is good for 11th grade and up.The importance of this book is summed up at the end when Reding notes that you can't solve a problem that you don't see. As a result, … there is a king of collective low self-esteem that sets in once a town’s culture must react solely to a singular — and singularly negative — stimulus.At the same time, the book is almost equally about the decline of rural America and why meth was able to find a foothold in that part of the country in the first place.

He zooms out again to examine these larger trends on a global scale and back in once more to see how they affecNick Reding begins "Methland" high in the sky over "flyover country", the huge, flat expanse of land between the two coasts. The underbelly of our Capitalist system has the habit of creating nice industrial towns that last for decades, and then along comes globalization and technology and these places get discarded into the pile of the forgotten and neglected. These are all well-known facts and true of every addictive drug and every drug "epidemicNick Reding has a nice literary style, which I appreciate in a non-fiction book as it makes for less dry reading. Just as brain cancer often spread to the lungs, said Clay, meth often spread between classes, families and friends. Exceedingly well-paced.

Set in California, they chronicle Nic's descent from healthy, successful college-bound high school student to the life of an addiI keep reading books about meth, and I keep finding myself engrossed in the stories. Oh, by the way, this is a non-fiction work.Good book; maybe stretches an interesting theory too muchThis was an interesting book about the kind of place that is so often overlooked. This story is told on different levels and represents different points of view.


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