By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


From opioids to meth: Maine’s ‘cyclone of misery’

The NYT reports that many opioid addicts in Portland, Maine and elsewhere are shifting to untreatable methamphetamine, i.e. meth. From the Times:  “This pretty foodie mecca has become yet another American city to be overwhelmed by meth — not the home-cooked biker party drug from the ’90s, but a far more  dangerous concoction, mass-produced in Mexican cartel labs.”

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