Winter’s Bone’s writer Daniel Woodrell, on the ways meth has changed his community in the Ozarks: “Well, it’s been a pretty widespread issue around here for the last 15 or 20 years, I suppose. And from my own house, I could throw a rock and hit a meth cook right now. And it’s just pretty ingrained, and it’s a way to make some quick, easy money. You don’t really have to be a master scientist to cook it or anything, and you can turn a quick profit. And it’s just, for whatever reason, it really took hold here perhaps earlier and more strongly than it did in many other parts of the country.”