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I just recently read this article in The Atlantic[0] that, to an extent, tied the wave of homelessness to a new version of meth that's taken over. the subheadl

I just recently read this article in The Atlantic[0] that, to an extent, tied the wave of homelessness to a new version of meth that's taken over. the subheadline is Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem. It was worth a read for some context [0] - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new-meth/620174/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> a new version of meth There was a recent article on HN rebutting this hypothesis [1][2]. (Convincingly, in my opinion.) TL; DR There isn't a different kind of meth as much as there is just a lot more meth. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29027284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29027284 [2] https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/ https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/