Yaa Baa
Production, Traffic and Consumption of Methamphetamine in Mainland Southeast Asia
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 B...
Éditeur : Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine, National university of Singapore press
Lieu d’édition : Singapour
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 2 octobre 2024
ISBN numérique : 978-2-35596-063-5
Collection : NUS Press-Irasec Studies on Southeast Asia
Année d’édition : 2004
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-9971-69-278-0
Nombre de pages : xxii-210
Stéphane Dovert
PrefacePART ONE - Yaa Baa, An Illicit Drug from the Golden Triangle: A Geo-Historical and Geopolitical Study of Its Production and Traffic
Chapter 1
MethamphetaminePART TWO - The Circuits of Yaa Baa: Methamphetamine Circulation and Use in Thailand
Introduction of the second part
The Circuits of Yaa Baa: Methamphetamine Circulation and Use in ThailandChapter 5
From the Producer to the ConsumerChapter 7
Yaa Baa’s Prime Target — The YouthPART THREE - Sociological Context of the Explosion in Methamphetamine Use in Thailand
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.
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.
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy is a geographer and research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. He specialises in the geopolitics of illicit drugs with a particular focus on Asia. For more information on his work and other publications, visit www.geopium.org.
Joël Meissonnier is a sociologist, specialising in mobility and consumption behaviours. He is the author of Provinciliens : les voyageurs du quotidien, entre capitale et province.
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