Jacob Sullum on the Lessons From Three Meth Panics

In
his new book Meth Mania, sociologist Nicholas Parsons
shows that public alarm about methamphetamine bears little or no
relationship to objective measures of use or abuse. Parsons
analyzes three distinct meth panics, arguing that they can best be
understood by considering the motivations of people with an
interest in creating a sense of emergency. As Jacob Sullum
explains, the consequences have been as uglier than a tweeker in an
anti-meth ad.

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