Frighteningly strong meth has supercharged homelessness

Street meth is often quite pure (&gt;90% is not unusual) and this has been true for decades. With that in mind, I can&#x27;t really figure out what this alleged supermeth being referred to could be.<p>I think the trend here is pretty simple: high-purity crystal meth has become significantly cheaper over time, enabling people to engage in sustained binges at high doses that are both just deranging (imagine a week of no sleep) and particularly at high doses, neurotoxic. So, more meth-crazy people. Where I live, it&#x27;s roughly 1&#x2F;5th what it cost twenty years ago.

&quot;Frighteningly strong&quot; is just a purposely stupid way of saying &quot;Pure&quot;, otherwise known as won&#x27;t poison you, other than the ways meth poisons you anyway.<p>Besides, most homeless people in my state are getting fucked over by fentanyl, not meth.

I have strangely, gotten down voted on other posts about homelessness when I bring up this fact. Living in LA, it’s plain as day, most of the tent encampments around the city are filled with addicts.<p>The homelessness crisis is really a drug epidemic, but not everyone seems to understand that yet I guess.

Homelessness causes meth (drug use) not the other way around. This is an oversimplification, but drug use is a coping mechanism not a cause.<p>There was a great article floating around around 10 years ago (can’t find it now) about being homeless for a year or so and the worst part of it (as I read it) was the HUGE stretches of time that you literally needed to kill because you don’t have access to most distractions.

Why would anyone want meth that&#x27;s not strong? Weak meth could be cut with anything