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Meth Addicts Before and After Pictures. Very Sad.
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by felixdakat | April 18, 2008 at 08:35 pm
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If this doesn't scare you away from this dangerous drug please go for help.
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at 10:49 on April 19th, 2008
felixdakat, I like this story. It's good stuff.
So remind me again the appeal of this drug? I can understand the appeal of many drugs and how people fall into addiction due to “too much of a good thing” but this is a drug I do not understand. I hear it makes you feel great. Those people do not look like they feel great.
I have met functioning alcoholics, cokeheads, potheads even junkies but I have never encountered a functioning speed freak. Don't the would-be meth addicts see what this drug does to other people before deciding to use this poison? Maybe I am all too familiar with these images as I lived 2 blocks from Pidgin Park in Vancouver's Downtown East Side for 5 years and walked past these addicts daily.
I think these people should be toured around the nation's schools so our kids understand where this drug leads and how quickly it get you there.
at 11:07 on April 19th, 2008
As somewhat of an oldtimer I like others of my generation did quite a bit of experimentation. Back then it was commonly refered to as crank and was mostly used by the biker crowd. Since it is so cheap to make and does not need to be imported, this homegrown drugs use has spread to the smallest of communities.
I could not agree with you more that these people should go around to the school system to show what this drug can do. Since most youths are concerned more about their appearence than health the visual effects would scare the heck out of adolecesents when are worried about even having a pimple. One look at "meth mouth" and these kids would freak.
at 11:13 on April 19th, 2008
Hey, whatever works.
at 11:01 on April 19th, 2008
Did you hear Richard Quest of CNN got arrested for meth posession the other night? Crazy.
at 11:02 on April 19th, 2008
same what i wrote in the flavoured coke article comment- it burns out the nerve systems within 5 years.
according to this article, speed can do this in three years.
i would say, if you only try it, and many people tried tablets in the 1990s through disco scene, and then stop- after ten years, your nerves recover. but occassionally, you remember the "burn-out".
so it should be discouraged. i mean, tell the people it does not do something magic, but activates your body reserves, because of this people feel high.
but they can not be recharged- people just "burn out". so for this reason, it is not a good drug, or a medicament, but a dangerous, illegal drug. people who have consumed only a few times did not always report bad effect- guess many disco go'ers pulled the plug after three or five times!
just- if people have no life, they will continue to seek good feelings from the drugs. they do not know the drugs only release body reserved (for instance, they increase MAO level, and increase synapse trnsmission).
they do not become junkies because of the drugs, but because their life wasn't too good before they tried the drugs- don't forget that.
and, as visible in the pictures, some drugs like coke and speed really burn out the body within a few years. some others like alcohol or tobacco take 20 years to take effect...
and i do not take anything, or would give the advice to try the stuff. just saying, people should know the real truth, not just "scare stories".
i would say, an America with less drugs would be good. so make people understand how they become junkies, why they initially started to take the drugs. if they just stop taking them, they will not get a "good life". don't forget this!
in some towns, maybe 20 or 30 percent of a generation went to disco clubs in the mid 1990s, so don't say they are all junkies. most of them pulled the plug early, and now have a good life. of course it is desireable to have a completely drug free life- or at least, to stay away from them permanently.
it helps to talk...and to understand the "whereabouts".
at 11:24 on April 19th, 2008
All valid points Nike6. When you can identify in advance which time you do meth will be the time you become an addict then people might be safe in trying this stuff. Until then people are playing Russian Roulette.
One point of clarification. The "speed" that was common from the 60's to the 90's was usually taken orally and was therefore far less addictive. Today people are injecting and smoking the drug. A recent study of street kids in Vancouver found that 25% of them injected the meth the very first time they tried it. If you understand brain chemistry (which it seems you do) then you can understand why the delivery method makes all the difference.
Cocaine is the same. I have know my share of coke heads. They snorted the drug. Most of them just suffered financial and relationship breakdowns. After realizing the insanity of their behavior they usually gave the blow up. The same can not be said about crack smokers or cocaine injectors. They end up in pretty much the same place as the methheads....it just takes them longer to get there.
at 12:48 on April 20th, 2008
All valid over there as well.
i would say it is the social disposition- why they start to do it, and how they continue it (for instance, to seek a rush of good feelings).
and it is always russian roulette to try drugs. for instance, people with a mental disposition can have an outbreak of psychosis, which can last years, if they try LSD.
others just had a good time of maybe one evening, and can forget about it relax (and not try again and again to have the same feeling).
so people with unstable social background generally should not take any of these things, and on the other hand, you can also loose your life security due to experiments.
there is no guarantee...
and "street kids" as you put it are stray cats with the drugs, or without the drugs, and generally are to be found to sell themselves off. it would be of help to understand their cycle- how they started it, what they are doing, how and why they continue.
the chemical drugs are just releasing transmitters in the brain, or drugs like cannabis modify the system temporarily (this is why they hear and see differently for a while).
but what they normally do not write (at these state run drug campaign sites), is where the life, the social background of the drug consumers is coming from. there is no guarantee for a good life without drugs, either, guess many seek an escape using the drugs. in the case they inject they just join the class of social outcasts- and add a problem to their local environment.
the term "stray cats" is a more polite one...most large cities have districts where they can be "found", more or less. and the graffitti...scary stuff nowadays.
at 12:11 on April 19th, 2008
Unreal! My best friend's daughter has been a Meth addict since I met her - at about 19 years of age. She already had two kids by then. She got those kids taken away for neglect. Social services was called when her toddler kept "escaping the house" while she slept all day. She got them back.
This girl has been in and out of rehab more than a rock star - to no avail. She has another baby, about a year old. She was clean and doing so well...then Meth came back. She abandoned her two oldest sons, took the baby and lives in a hotel while she strips for money. She left the comfort of her Mother's home to go back to her Meth-Life. (God help the baby). She is now 27!
Thank you for sharing that story. Great comments, too!
at 12:20 on April 19th, 2008
I don't think "Middle America" really knows how people struggle to escape whatever it is that allows them to become sooo addicted. Until you see someone struggle with addiction...or you experience it yourself in some form...it is easy to believe that this only happens to derelicts! Not so. Please keep disseminating this kind of wonderful, yet uncomfortable information. No, it's not pretty at all - but it needs to be discussed. Addiction needs to be addressed! People need to be helped...young people need to be aware the they are NOT invincible. "Oh, that'll never happen to me". That's what "they" said!
Good stuff -thank you!
at 12:43 on April 19th, 2008
Those pictures are scary. I can't believe how quickly you go downhill from meth. In only 3 months, you look like a completely different person.
at 15:43 on April 19th, 2008
felixdakat, I like this story. It's good stuff. Well, actually it's bad stuff, but we need to see this. The comment that these pictures should be taken to the secondary schools is so on. When I lived in an urban area, teen age girls were taking this poison to stay slim. They were getting it for free. I wonder why?not!