meth dealer who had just finished selling to several homeless people in Fresno showed his remaining meth to a reporter while standing on a city sidewalk. He said why he didn’t need to be careful: “If the cops came right now and found that, all these drugs on us right now, none of us would go to jail. They’d give you a ticket and send you on your way. They’d leave you with your meth. They don’t even take it.”95 Though meth’s negative health impacts are sometimes sensationalized by the media, they are real. “I didn’t have any teeth,” said Vicki. “My teeth are only from here, see the bottoms?” We
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