How meth conquered a county
How meth conquered a county
- February 4, 2020
- Kim Fortun, anthropology, Citylab, Feb. 4, 2020
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The impulse to find productive outlets—or to mentally escape once those outlets are gone—should be familiar to anyone, in any social class or region in the U.S., Pine says. That’s the reality of America under what UC Irvine anthropologist Kim Fortun has dubbed “late industrialism”—a time when many workers are overextended and living in precarity. Coping mechanisms might be chemical or digital, benign or toxic.
For the full story, please visit https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/02/meth-lab-drug-addiction-rural-missouri-jason-pine-book/604999/.
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