The abuse of methamphetamines in Southeast Asia has become a major problem over the past decade. Thailand has been particularly hard hit: methamphetamine abuse now affects all sectors of Thai society. In the early 1990s, methamphetamine manufacturers moved their laboratories across the border into Burma, and began large-scale production. The new cheaper product, yaa baa or 'madness medicine', flooded the local market and spread quickly to the surrounding countries. Yaa baa from laboratories in Burma has been found also in Europe and the United States.
Yaa Baa Production, Traffic and Consumption of Methamphetamine in Mainland Southeast Asia
The authors analyse the growth of methamphetamine production in Burma in its political context, which makes the book valuable. There are many books about opium and heroin production in the Golden Triangle, but this is the first about methamphetamines. This book fills an important gap in the literature about the Golden Triangle.
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Type de publication
Ouvrages
Date de parution
Collection
NUS Press-IRASEC Studies on Southeast Asia
Pages
210
ISBN/ISSN
978-2-35596-063-5
Auteur(s)
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
Joël Meissonnier
Éditeur
IRASEC
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