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Throughout the book Methland by Nick Reding, he continues to explain the struggle of the meth epidemic in Oelwein, Iowa. What used to be thought of only as a district problem had become a national problem. The capital of America; Washington DC, started to notice more about the small meth towns and determined to take action. The State wondered what to do about the two economies; meth and wealth, because if one started to rise the other started to fall. This was the start of the "war on meth". The government went from ignoring the problem to being very severely alarmed. This led to the Combat Methamphetamine Act which was passed in September 2006 (Reding, P. 67). This was an attempt to decrease supplies, so the meth would be harder to produce, …show more content…

The new meth was called Red-P or crystal meth. Cold medicine was used to make it and this created the "worst meth time ever" (Reding, P. 70). With this, small town labs went up 300%. In the late 1950's and early 60's, it is believed that Oelwein was a location for Chicago Mobsters to reside. Since Mobsters lived in town, no one would step out of line and there was practically no trouble what so ever, but a lot has changed since that time. The economy has gotten worse and inferior; therefore in March of 2006 Tyson Meat Factory closed losing hundreds of jobs and leaving people in Oelwein without a job. Larry Murphy had a plan to get Oelwein on a better pathway. He set up a two phase method. He was tired of having nearby towns using Oelwein as its ghetto. Phase one of the plan was just to prepare in 2005, but Phase two was a revitalization plan- tearing down almost all of Oelwein and restoring and renovating it. Reding discusses Nathan Lein's life and how he was having some complications, his brother just passed away and lately he has not been getting along with his parents. Nathan's girlfriend, that he has been dating for a while moved to

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