Spencer Pratt Gets Scary On ‘Super Meth.’ It’s Not Even Real

Zagorski says this is contributing to the increase in meth use, but it’s a “very small” factor, with economic instability and housing instability playing a major role in causing the problem.

Nicky Mehtani, an assistant professor in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital who specializes in addiction medicine and works with the homeless, tells WIRED that P2P meth is not uncommon. He said: “For 10 years in the United States it has been the biggest way to get things in America. “I’ve never heard it called ‘super meth’ in medical or scientific news, maybe because it’s a way we’ve all been seeing for years now.

Mehtani says that the problem of using meth is very difficult to treat, in part because of the lack of any FDA-approved drugs, and that “recovery is really difficult.” But he says Pratt’s story misses the root causes of meth use among the homeless population. “Because I feel it works,” says Mehtani. “People are using the motivation to be awake, to be alert, to live on the streets at a time when poverty and homelessness are on the rise.”

“Calling it ‘super meth’ obscures all of this and reduces a serious public health problem to fear, which tends to force us into punitive responses and distance ourselves from the evidence that supports it,” Mehtani warns. He considers the term a “war on drug language,” describing it as “vague, intimidating, and inconsistent with the way doctors or researchers talk about methamphetamine.”

Ryan Marino, an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine who specializes in addiction and toxicology, says claims of “super meth” are part of the hype. (Pratt too to be mentioned to homeless people as “Zombies.”)

“Pratt seems to be trying to use the same lies that we’ve seen other politicians use in recent years in places like San Francisco and Portland, which were lies at the time and had very bad results in those places,” Marino says. In Oregon, a to be charged having fewer drugs did not reduce homelessness in the city of Portland, where more people are homeless than ever before, while studies from several cities have shown a strong link among police officers selling opioids and the number of brain deaths.

“Los Angeles doesn’t suffer more from a drug problem than places that are controlled by Republicans or from drug enforcement,” Marino says. Pratt’s line about homeless people seeking drugs instead of a bed and shelter “goes against all the evidence,” he adds, noting that drug use “is not the cause of LA’s homeless population.”

If Pratt is concerned about drug use and homelessness, he should promote “evidence-based measures such as public education, drug screening centers and supervised centers, and drug control,” says Marino, as well as “medical treatment, access to mental health services, and housing.”

The candidate may not go that way. Pratt is here vote in second place behind Bass after months of demonizing non-domestic and comical characters to help them recover.

The repeated words “super meth”, as it is, sound like they are in the hands of something so powerful that it can’t compete with people or drugs. And maybe that’s the point: convincing Los Angeles voters that the city’s most vulnerable residents are a cause for pessimism.