Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle

by Michael Black and Bertil Lintner

For decades, Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle, where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Burma intersect, has been infamous for its opium and heroin production. But in the 1990s, the drug gangs in the Golden Triangle began to produce methamphetamine, a synthetic narcotic that is not dependent on an unreliable crop like the opium poppy. The drug has become known as ya ba in Thailand - "madness medicine." The drug makes users hyperactive and often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 974951159X
• ISBN13: 9789749511596
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher