Meth In The Medicine Cabinet

You’ll find it in North Korea:

[A defector] spoke of a doctor administering Ice to a friend’s sick father: “He took it and could speak well and move his hand again five minutes later. Because of this kind of effect, elderly people really took to this medicine.” A South Korea-based NGO worker, who claims to have interviewed over 500 defectors, told me “People with chronic disease take it until they’re addicted.” Unlike heroin, crystal meth is mostly smoked or snorted, and a threadbare medical infrastructure means it’s difficult for North Koreans to find needles, Hazel Smith, a North Korea expert at Cranfield University in Britain, told me.