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

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/7/cheaper-than-beer-laos-meth-prices-plummet-as-myanmar-chaos-fuels-trade

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

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thanevim@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

livus@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

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

TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Can you take meth in pill form? I assumed it would need to be crushed an snorted/melted and injected?

aubertlone@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

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.

livus@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

@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.

wryan@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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!

livus@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

@wryan me too. She was so innocent and she had a nightmare outcome.

Vode_An@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y

Huge news for $Gooning , to the moon I say