Speed Demons
By AAN Staff
september 9, 2003 10:09 am
The media's lousy these days with cautionary
copy about the rise of methamphetamine and its
attendant "tweaker" culture. But when Westword
staff writer David Holthouse spent four
days with a group of upwardly mobile Denver
meth freaks on a high-end speed binge,
he came
back with a story like no other. Beginning at an
upscale Colorado party pad and eventually
leading all the way to the Las Vegas Strip and
back, Holthouse's tale puts the lie to the myth of
meth as a white-trash drug. A companion piece by
Westword staffer Alan Prendergast
details the staggering costs and freakish health
risks that methheads impose on local
communities.