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Chemically Different, 'New Meth' Causing Severe Mental Illness
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Methamphetamine is chemically different than it was a decade ago, and the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening the homelessness problem, the Atlantic reports. For years, methamphetamine has been made from ephedrine, a natural substance commonly found in decongestants and derived from the ephedra plant, which was used as a stimulant and an anti-asthmatic. Another way to make methamphetamine, used by the Hell’s Angels and other biker gangs, which had dominated a much smaller meth trade into the ’80s, has surfaced. Its essential chemical was a clear liquid called phenyl-2-propanone—P2P. Many combinations of cheap, accessible chemicals could be used to make P2P...
Chemically Different, 'New Meth' Causing Severe Mental Illness
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- CJN
Methamphetamine is chemically different than it was a decade ago, and the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening the homelessness problem, the Atlantic reports. For years, methamphetamine has been made from ephedrine, a natural substance commonly found in decongestants and derived from the ephedra plant, which was used as a stimulant and an anti-asthmatic. Another way to make methamphetamine, used by the Hell’s Angels and other biker gangs, which had dominated a much smaller meth trade into the ’80s, has surfaced. Its essential chemical was a clear liquid called phenyl-2-propanone—P2P. Many combinations of cheap, accessible chemicals could be used to make P2P...