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The Atlantic wrote a really good deep dive piece into the differences recently. Highly recommend reading through it. There are a lot of unknowns about the long term consequences. Anecdotally, people close to me in the mental health industry are really distraught about it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...

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In my opinion that Atlantic article is far from good. Its a scare piece designed to make the public afraid

Methamphetamine is methamphetamine and there is no "new meth"

It's simply a higher amount of R-meth and less L-meth(the non psychoactive isomer)

Don't believe everything you read

Book by the same author here

https://www.amazon.com/Least-Us-Tales-America-Fentanyl/dp/16...

It's a devastating read.

It’s an interesting theory but the meth from the 1970’s was all P2P and we didn’t see the same impact.

It’s cheaper now and way more socially acceptable (decriminalized) to use meth in public (at least in west coast states). My dad was a meth user and only got clean when he was incarcerated. I bet there are thousands who just spiral downward further and further until they just die because now there are no consequences or barriers or repercussions to stop this behavior. Not only that, we incentivize and subsidize drug use in some cities. San Francisco has an “adult” support program that gives homeless people a debit card which they can withdraw cash from. I guarantee 90% of that cash is spent on fentanyl and meth. They give out dozens of needles at a time (once saw one dude with literally 300-500 needles) to drug users but not to diabetics. We have really skewed/inverted our priorities.

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