There's an article in the Feb. 5th issue of The New Yorker about an oil boom town in Wyoming and the attendent meth problem. I particularly loved this quote about how to combat it from one of the roughnecks:
"The only way you're gonna stop the meth addiction here is they've got to introduce something else. In order to get a little they gotta give a little. It's kinda hard to convince the roughnecks--someone that makes a bunch a money, that's gonna be away from his family and his wife for a week at a time, that's with another bunch of bored roughnecks--it's hard to convince them not to want to have fun. the only way I can see for putting a dent in the meth is something like a titty bar--you know, like a Hooters. What else do you see working?"
Which I thought was great because my first thought on beginning the article was, "Damn, an oil town without a titty bar for me to work in."



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