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Surprisingly good. I liked the closing comment: “You don’t have to be ready to quit in order to get your life in order; if you’re ready to do something you should start acting now even if you’re not ready to quit.”
I feel this can apply more broadly than addiction–don’t feel stymied by this One Thing holding you back in life but work on the other stuff first and that Big One may just get easier to tackle.
Very interesting.
This entire “How Crime Works” series is very well done.
People who smoke meth shouldn’t make meth. It’s never the first meth lab that explodes, always the second
Interesting.. his company igntd is kinda banking tho.. anywhere from $75-$275 a month.. but I guess it would cost a helluva lot more to go into a rehab center.
He went back to school? What kind of support did he have? He must of had friends and family. He was the lucky/ had enough money/ spport one.
The whole Insider stuff and this episode gives amazing insight. Thanks for sharing.
The only thing that baffles me is “I couldn’t even get a job as a pizza delivery guy, so I went and got a PhD”. Had to be some other income or help as well.
Pretty cool how he openly talks about his white male privilege. A black or brown man would not be given the same leniency. THIS guys is how it should work. Punitive justice is not the way, the justice system should work to help people turn their lives around, not just put them in a box for the rest of their lives.
Interesting video. Anyone know who makes that jacket?
Anthony Jeselnik’s side hustle
I particularly liked how he stated that drug addiction is not exclusive to socioeconomic status. The varying places as an EMT where you have to slam in an opa and narcan is so disheartening.
It’s not just them. It’s your coworkers, it’s your aunt, your grandfather, your best friend, your son. Sometimes it’s you.
If there was a dog food that was as deadly and widespread as opioids is currently – our society would be completely outraged. But since it’s other people and not “us”, we don’t give a shit. Until it is us. And by that time it’s too late.
It’s crazy to me that they cooked meth in short term rentals. As someone who travels a lot whatsoever the likelihood that my airbnb was a meth lab at some point?
Fact that gets missed a lot (even by this guy) is that P2P/Cartel meth is cheap AF. So even if it’s marginally more potent than it used to be the fact it’s several times cheaper could account for much heavier usage and therefore side effects. Isn’t like meth users typically are weighing out their doses on a milligram scale, though some of us do.
Hamilton Morris brings up the idea of P2P meth getting this weird wrap as some new fangled ‘super meth’ when he thinks it’s quite possible the fact it’s so cheap translates into people using more of it. Use enough of any drug and you’ll get some wild effects, in the case of meth sleep deprivation leading to psychosis or other mental health issues being the most obvious.
The Atlantic article that created/reinforced the P2P super-meth myth definitely has reinforced every tweakers idea that ‘meth used to be better back in the day’. Though it’s more likely those tweakers just have sky rocketed their tolerance in the intervening years and grown accustomed to the drug’s heavy side effects at high dosages (I.e. lack of sleep). All the chemical analysis of the new P2P meth shows it’s not all that different than good domestically produced crystal from 20 years ago. Similar isometric ratios, similar but marginally higher purity levels.