Photographs for TIME by Jonathan Taylor.

Nong sucks in meth smoke through a metal pipe -- life amid the squalor of Bangkok's slums center on getting ones hands on speed and getting high. At first only bar girls liked Jacky smoked the stuff; young guys who hung out with the girls soon followed, then the housewives and dads started.

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