North Korea's privileged wives are using crystal meth to lose weight: Report

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Privileged Wives in North Korea Are Apparently Using Meth to Lose Weight
By Olivia Becker

(VICE) A troubling new diet fad is said to be gaining in popularity among the wives of North Korean elites: methamphetamine. Though much of the isolated communist country contends daily with malnutrition, a report in the online news outlet Daily NK indicates that these women are increasingly using crystal meth to lose weight. It also makes them feel pretty good, at least when they're high.

Experts have documented how North Korea became a major producer of meth for export in recent decades as part of an effort to collect hard currency. Because the drug suppresses appetite while providing an energetic boost, chronic hunger might have helped to spur its consumption at home.

Although the extent of the drug's use within North Korea is difficult to determine, studies have suggested that it has reached "epidemic" levels, and defectors have testified that meth is ingested widely and openly in parts of the country.

Full story: https://news.vice.com/article/privileged-wives-in-north-korea-are-apparently-using-meth-to-lose-weight

-- VICE 2015-08-05

[Credo]

Those poor North Koreans, they just can't win for losing. Now even the privileged are suffering.

[zyphodb]

Well Hiso N.Koreans husbands beware.... Stabbings & shootings on the way.. Karma maybe.....

[user82374298374]

'It also makes them feel pretty good, at least when they're high.'

Classic.

[sammygood]

the point is ... never come down ...

might fry your brain, but who cares .... hope they don't accidently press the LAUNCH button

[SiSePuede419]

Meth also saves money on dentist bills.

After you lose all your teeth, 555.

[Catoni]

I hope they don't mind ending up with 'Meth mouth." I wonder if they even know what it is ? ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meth_mouth

[ableguy]

I hope they don't mind ending up with 'Meth mouth." I wonder if they even know what it is ? ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meth_mouth

I don't know what it is being a none imbiiber , please enlighten me, seriously.

[spidermike007]

This may actually be a great way of getting rid of all of the elites in North Korea. Just let them fry their brains. What a forlorn, forsaken nation.