Subscribe"Why has there been a rise and fall in the purity of meth over the years? How pure is it today?If you have the time, watch the documentary.
Purity reflects how the meth market is doing. If the drug is at peak production and supply meets demand, the cooks have little reason to dilute it with filler. However, if the supply of the key chemicals needed -- ephedrine and pseudoephedrine -- is reduced, it becomes more difficult to produce meth and purity falls. History shows that in periods immediately following a new government regulation on ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, average purity will fall."
Unfortunately putting Sudafed behind the counter now, while it would be useful in shutting down toxic domestic meth labs, probably wouldn't matter much to overall meth supply; it's estimated that 80% of the stuff now comes in from Mexico. Maybe if we'd done that ten years ago, the genie could have been kept in the bottle; but now that a mass methamphetamine retail distribution system and user base exist, it's going to be next to impossible to shut off the supply of the bulk drug.
There's probably some mileage to be obtained by spreading the "Speed Kills" meme in places where meth is just arriving, or where it hasn't quite reached yet. If there's any evidence that meth is jumping the racial barrier, that would be good time for heavy anti-meth messaging in the African-American community. The AIDS control commuity already has meth use among gays in its sights, but there's more to be done on that front.
Other than that, we're S.O.O.L as far as useful policy interventions go. Meth is simply not a good enforcement target because it has no obvious "choke point." In particular, the hand-to-hand, acquaintance-to-acquaintance, low-frequency style of retail meth dealing makes it pretty close to invulnerable to enforcement, especially in rural areas where undercover work is hard.
The main or central psychological deficits in those with ADHD have been linked through these studies. By 2002 the researchers in the NIMH Child Psychiatry Branch had studied 152 boys and girls with ADHD, matched with 139 age- and gender-matched controls without ADHD. The children were scanned [with an NMRI] at least twice, some as many as four times over a decade. As a group, the ADHD children showed 3-4 percent smaller brain volumes in all regions—the frontal lobes, temporal gray matter, caudate nucleus, and cerebellum.So in other words, you're completely full of shit. Either that or your on your way to a Nobel prize, captain science. Why don't you publish your findings?
This study also showed that the ADHD children who were on medication had a white matter volume that did not differ from that of controls. Those never-medicated patients had an abnormally small volume of white matter. The white matter consists of fibers that establish long-distance connections between brain regions. It normally thickens as a child grows older and the brain mature
It's not that hard to ask for what you want instead of grabbing it off the shelf, is it?Unless it's 8:30 at night. I've been in the local drugstore and not been able to get Sudafed because the pharmacy had closed. That sucked.
Absolutely not. Very easy in fact.
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posted by furtive at 6:23 PM on February 16, 2006