For its first few years, Jobe’s court handled a lot of meth addicts when “shake-and-bake” manufacturing was still used. They were gaunt, she remembers, and picked at their skin. But they were animated, lucid, with memories and personalities intact when they arrived at her facility, detoxed of the drug after months in jail. By 2017, as the P2P meth from Mexico arrived, the men were coming to her stripped of human energy, even after several months in custody. “Their dopamine receptors don’t work anymore; nothing is pleasurable for months,” she said. “Normal recreational activities where guys
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