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‘Cheaper than beer’: Laos meth prices plummet as Myanmar chaos fuels trade (www.aljazeera.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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