“Crystal meth controls all the dockets now” in rural Virginia, a local drug task force officer told me. “If you’re addicted to painkillers, you become so lethargic you can hardly function. But meth keeps you going if you need to run the streets to go get your next dose of heroin or pills, to keep you from getting sick. It allows you to function. There’s a reason they call it ‘high-speed chicken feed.’”
