As Breaking Bad‘s popularity taught the nation about the meth business, it seems the drug itself has crept into America’s real suburban PTA meetings.
… meth is becoming troublingly prevalent in the U.S., not just in longtime hotspots like Oregon, Nevada, Missouri and Kentucky, but also among suburban housewives, as chronicled in Miriam Boeri’s new book Women on Ice. And what was the threat of the television show’s fictional blue meth, for instance, when compared to the grisly reality of krokodil, known colloquially as “the zombie drug” and scientifically as desomorphine. Krokodil, as so many terrifying news reports reminded us, is a morphine derivative that not only turns users’ skin scaly and reptilian-looking, it eats away at the flesh, a side-effect of damaged tissues that can debilitate into gangrene. In October, the first U.S. cases of krokodil side-effects were reported, including that of a Missouri man who lost a finger.
In her book, Women on Ice author Boeri tells the story of Maggie, among other women, who is the typical suburban housewife except with a daily meth habit and a flourishing cocaine dealing business with her husband, a construction worker. Initially Maggie began using ice to lose weight, which she discovered was cheaper and just as effective as the weight loss drug her doctor had prescribed. Later, when she became depressed after the deaths of two close family members, she used ice to curb her depression because she found it more effective than her Paxil prescription.
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