by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy & Joel Meissonnier, with a preface from Stéphane Douvert.
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 it has also been found in Europe and the United States.

According to well-known research Bertil Lintner, "the authors analyze the growth of methamphetamine production in its rightful political context".

The book is co-published with IRASEC, Bangkok.