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The Cooks

Series: Methamphetamine: A Home Cooked Threat
From: KUOW
Length: 00:03:59

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The cooks who make methamphetamine take enormous risks. The chemicals used to make the illegal drug are volatile. Fires and explosions are common. In part four of our series Methamphetamine: A Home Cooked Threat, KUOW's Patricia Murphy talks with a man formerly known as Pierce County's most notorious meth cook. Now he helps police understand the dangerous cooking process.

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Tripp Sommer

Posted on December 04, 2005 at 05:03 PM | Permalink

Review of The Cooks

Meth is a problem - and a story - that isn't going away. In the 4th of a 5 part series, Patricia Murphy takes the listener up close and personal to the life of a meth cook. This piece, mainly told by the meth cook and his wife, is graphic, intense, scary and disturbing.
Patricia adds narrative to keep the story moving. Otherwise, she lets them tell it themselves. There are a couple questions left unanswered. While that's understandable in a short piece, I was left wondering how and why on two questions
1) the lead-up to their addiction
2) how long they continued this lifestyle after the tragic fire.
To their credit, KUOW put together a five part series on meth, offering answers as well as questions.

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