Title: Should have been published as a scholarly article
Product review: I was looking for a book to help me understand what happened to my brother who killed himself on methamphetamine. This book did not answer that question. It is a sociological study of meth addicts from the LA area with attention to their social background and potential for violence. It has some interesting statistics, but it comes to some unwarrented conclusions, namely that methamphetamine did not make people violent if they were not already violent for some other reason. This conclusion is based on interviews with the addicts. Nobody asked the wives and girlfriends of these addicts whether they were violent or not, and only 6% of the sample was incarcerated, which is NOT representative of the meth abusing population. I found it inadequate both for information for the general public and as a scholarly work.
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