A Generation High

Arizona is rated No. 1 in the nation for high school methamphetamines use, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey. Talena Brown grew up in Tucson, Ariz. She and her mother have an unusual trait in common: they were both once addicted to meth. Talena, who started using meth at age 13 and has been sober since 2008, speaks candidly about her experiences and the emotional toll.
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London is a primate vivisector at UCLA who oversees a multi-million dollar grant program addicting primates to Crystal Methamphetamines. In essence, she turns healthy primates, held captive in steel cages, into tweakers, while legitimate drug rehabilitation centers flounder for lack of funds. The lab she oversees restrains these poor monkeys in draconian head-restraint devices in order to inject drugs like methamphetamines into their veins, forcing them to become addicted. Then these poor primates are tied down and blood is taken from them repeatedly. PET scans and other, more invasive tests are also performed on the hapless primates. After all this torture, she kills them and studies their brains. Edythe also studies nicotine addiction and is paid to do so through a handsome endowment from the private Phillip Morris Tobacco Company. Edythe and her co-authors explained that two monkeys were administered 37.5 mg/kg of nicotine daily. This is the equivalent of between 13 and 17 PACKS of cigarettes a day. The monkeys were housed in solitary confinement – a known cause of insanity and self-mutilation in rhesus monkeys – and then killed at the end of the experiment in order to examine their brains.
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