How the War on Drugs is maintained through racismauthority and public opinion. From the hit television series Breaking Bad to daily news reports antidrug advertising campaigns and highly publicized worldwide hunts for amp8220narcoterroristsamp8221 such as Joaquin amp8220El Chapoamp8221 Guzman the drug methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the publicamp8217s imagination. In Meth Wars Travis Linnemann situates the meth epidemic within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration.Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship to show how methamphetamine and the drug war more generally are part of a larger governing strategy that animates the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated concerns such as environmental dangers the politics of immigration and national security policing tactics and terrorism. The authoramp8217s unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the supposed amp8220meth epidemicamp8221 allows politicians small town police and government counternarcotics agents to engage in a singular policing project in service to the broader economic and geostrategic interests of the United States.