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...base of the drug?ephedrine?was actually first synthesized in Asia: a team of Japanese scientists derived it from the Chinese mao herb in 1892. Amphetamine and methamphetamine are derived from this ephedrine base, or from pseudoephedra, an artificial alternative, in a hazardous process that involves heating and pressurizing solvents and other store-bought chemicals. While the refining can be volatile, it is not terribly complex, which means that meth labs are an ideal family business for industrious Asians, who set them up in converted bathrooms, farmhouses or even the family hearth. Unlike ecstasy, which requires sophisticated chemical and pharmaceutical...
...This gray-brick warehouse on the outskirts of Beijing is a typical, small-time meth lab. Here, the six members of the Li family oversee the process of creating crystalline methamphetamine. Their neighbors, says father Li, think they are making legal chemicals, which is why crystals are drying out in the open between two warehouses. "No one knows that this isn't an agricultural product," he smiles. "No one knows what methamphetamines look like." After Li's speed is processed it is handed over to local crime gangs, who ship it to Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Australia or take...
...number of drug addicts, particularly meth abusers, who are crashing and seeking help. But in most of the region, counseling facilities are scarce and recovery from drug addiction is still viewed as a matter of willpower and discipline rather than a tenuous and slow spiritual and psychological rebuilding process. When it comes to methamphetamine addiction, where the brain goes through physiological changes that leave the abstinent addict clinically depressed because of depleted serotonin levels, recovery programs and rehab centers become a crucial way station between addiction and sobriety. But most of the region's drug-treatment centers are run like...
...Jacob '02, director of Cambridge One-to-One, a big sibling program, says her program goes through an elaborate screening process which includes an application, an in-depth interview and two reccomendations...
...when the state cannot or will not exercise jurisdiction, the state requests or does not object to federal prosecution or the state prosecutes but does not receive an outcome that sufficiently combats the bias-motivation. This language is intended to allay concerns about states' rights in the criminal justice process...