‘Cheaper than beer’: Laos meth prices plummet as Myanmar chaos fuels trade - eviltoast

Front-line workers say methamphetamine pills are being sold for as little as $0.25 each.

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    This makes me feel like Jeremy Clarkson was on to something in the Top Gear Burma special (if just slightly off)

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      @thanevim I didn’t see it but that was made in the partial democracy period. So, probably just “golden triangle” stuff?

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      Meth is perfectly bioavailable when take orally.

      People crush/snort/inject it because it hits faster.

      It seems you’re thinking about heroin. You do need to snort or inject heroin for it to be bioavailable.

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        Well kinda, you could eat and your body would just cleave it into morphine. A bit of a waste, depending on form… but it’s an option.

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      @TheMightyCanuck it works just fine. Meth pills have been around for a long time.

      The early diet pills were mostly methamphetamine, e.g Obetrol. If you ever watch Requiem for a Dream that’s why the mother gets so addicted to diet pills.

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        Man, she was so disturbingly good in that. Her scenes unnerved me significantly more than the ones of Leto and Connelly—and they were on freaking heroin!