RUDE, CRUDE and SOCIALLY UNATTRACTIVE, "Meth Monster" is the autobiography of a 25 year meth user from the cradle to the gutter. Chronicling the manic decline on the downbound train, spiraling to the bottom of the abyss of meth addiction and the lives and life lost to the lifelong psychotic episode that is the life of a crankster. The 11 year battle with depression and overcoming the desire to return to the vaccuum of meth use and a look at the reasons meth is the most addictive and all-consuming drug ever created by man to enslave men and reduce them to walking deadmen. NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE AND THERE ARE MORE WAYS THAN ONE TO DIE!!!!! - From publisher

“The first chance I got, I bought my very first bag of crystal methamphetamine... A monster was born.” “Try as I might, there is simply no way for me to minimize the impact with which crystal meth slammed into my life, at least not without straying far from the truth. It was like throwing a forty-pound sledge hammer though a plate glass window.” “What a cunning thing this was that lived inside of me. How could I ever hope to win against it? My good intentions meant nothing – what I lacked was power.” Meth Monster is the autobiographical story of one gay African American man’s personal journey to faith and deliverance from drugs and alcohol, and particularly from the scourge of crystal methamphetamine. The author takes his readers through his troubled early years in Indiana, hustling on the streets of Hollywood, and dealing drugs in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Blaine boldly examines his personal demons from the time they take up residence in his subconscious and through their horrific and destructive manifestations. After numerous visits to jails, prisons and rehab, and after finally confronting his addiction, his sexuality, AIDS and a broken spirit, at last he finds redemption, healing and forgiveness through the grace and mercy of The Living God.

For twenty years, Slade Smith was slave to meth, living the violent lifestyle of a body guard for drug dealers and serving as yard captain for the Aryan Brotherhood while in prison. As a junior in high school, he tried meth for the first time and was instantly hooked on a substance that turned a lovable, hardworking athlete into a monster. Like the prodigal son who wound up in the pig pen, Slade found himself on the garbage heap of society before crying out to God.

For twenty years, Slade Smith was slave to meth, living the violent lifestyle of a body guard for drug dealers and serving as yard captain for the Aryan Brotherhood while in prison. As a junior in high school, he tried meth for the first time and was instantly hooked on a substance that turned a lovable, hardworking athlete into a monster. Like the prodigal son who wound up in the pig pen, Slade found himself on the garbage heap of society before crying out to God. The Monster and the Miracle is the gripping story of a man trapped in drug addiction, who miraculously escaped enslavement to the demands of meth's demonic torment through the power of Jesus Christ. Slade's story is a demonstration of the extravagant love that God has for a hopeless sinner, and Jesus's supremacy over the works of Satan.

How the War on Drugs is maintained through racism,authority and public opinion. From the hit television series Breaking Bad, to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly publicized world-wide hunts for “narcoterrorists” such as Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public’s imagination. In Meth Wars, Travis Linnemann situates the "meth epidemic" within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration. Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship to show how methamphetamine, and the drug war more generally, are part of a larger governing strategy that animates the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated concerns such as environmental dangers, the politics of immigration and national security, policing tactics, and terrorism. The author’s unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the supposed “meth epidemic” allows politicians, small town police and government counter-narcotics agents to engage in a singular policing project in service to the broader economic and geostrategic interests of the United States.