What Is CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE ?
Crystal Methamphetamine is an addictive stimulant that is closely related to amphetamine, but has longer lasting and more toxic effects on the central nervous system. It has a high potential for abuse and addiction.
Street names include: Crank, speed, meth, chalk, ice, crystal, glass, tina, cris, chris.
Effects include increased wakefulness and physical activity as well as decreased appetite. Chronic, long-term use can lead to psychotic behavior, hallucinations, and stroke.
Some Facts on Methamphetamine Use
Women are more likely to use Methamphetamine than Cocaine.
The average methamphetamine "cook" annually teaches ten others how to make Methamphetamine.
Every pound of methamphetamine produced leaves behind five or six pounds of toxic waste.
Seizures of methamphetamine labs in the Midwest increased ten fold from 1995 to 1997.
DEA has identified 20 Mexican Methamphetamine trafficking organizations in the Midwest.
Methamphetamine accounts for up to 90 percent of all drug cases in many Midwest communities.
Methamphetamine kills by causing heart failure, brain damage, and stroke.
Methamphetamine induced paranoia has led to numerous murders and suicides.
Methamphetamine produces hallucinations.
Methamphetamine users are the hardest to treat of all drug abusers.
Methamphetamine lab site cleanups can cost up to $150,000.
Methamphetamine is highly addictive.
Methamphetamine use can increase risk of child abuse and neglect and domestic violence.
Methamphetamine affects your brain. In the short term, methamphetamine causes mind and mood changes such as anxiety, euphoria, and depression. Long term affects can include chronic fatigue, paranoid or delusional thinking, as well as permanent psychological damage.
Methamphetamine affects your body. Over "amping" on any type of speed is pretty risky. Creating a false sense of energy, these drugs push the body faster and further than it's meant to go. It increases the heart rate, blood pressure, and, thereby, risk of stroke.
Methamphetamine affects your self control. Methamphetamine may be as addictive as Crack, but more powerful.
Methamphetamine is not what it seems. Speed drugs are not safe. Large doses of the well-known stimulants Caffeine or Ephedrine can cause stroke or cardiac arrest when overused or used by people with a sensitivity to them.
Methamphetamine can kill you. An overdose of methamphetamine can result in heart failure. Long-term physical effects such as liver, kidney, and lung damage may also kill you.
Methamphetamine also affects your teeth. In almost all Methamphetamine users, the effects on the teeth continue even after they stopped taking Methamphetamine.
What are people using to make methamphetamine?
The ingredients for Methamphetamine are cold and allergy medicines, rubbing alcohol, brake cleaner, engine starter, drain cleaner, lawn fertilizer, lye, matches, kerosene, and paint thinner.
Not exactly a concoction that some one would want in their body right? Wrong. Those are the ingredients that all Methamphetamine users employ to make Methamphetamine. Why would some one want to do that? Here's a glimpse into the mind of a meth addict:
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Q: What caused you to do Methamphetamine?
A: "I fell into it, because of all the other drugs I was using."
Q: Did you know at first what the ingredients of Methamphetamine where when you tried it?
A: "Yes."
Q: Did one of your friends talk you into using it?
A: "No."
Q: Did any of your friends do it also?
A: "No."
Q: After you started it, did you regret it?
A: "Never regretted doing meth until I got clean."
Q: How long did it take you till you quit?
A: "29 years."
Q: Do you still know people who did Methamphetamine in school, and still do now?
A: "Yes."
Q: When pregnant, was staying off meth hard?
A: "No, because it was natural to stay off the drug."
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Q: What caused you to do Methamphetamine?
A: "Being around other people who did Methamphetamine."
Q: Did you know at first what the ingredients of Methamphetamine where when you tried it?
A: "No."
Q: Did one of your friends talk you into using it?
A: "No, I saw friends doing it, so I decided I could do it also."
Q: How many of your friends did Meth?
A: "All of them."
Q: After you started it, did you regret it?
A: "Yes. Still do."
Q: How long did it take you till you quit?
A: "9 years, been clean for five years."
Q: Do you still know people who did Methamphetamine in school, and still do now?
A: "Yes."
Q: What age did you start using Meth?
A: "15."
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Q: What caused you to do Methamphetamine?
A: "Friends I was hanging out with . . . I guess you could say the wrong crowd."
Q: Did you know at first what the ingredients of Methamphetamine where when you tried it?
A: "No, I know now what they are. I never made it myself."
Q: Did one of your friends talk you into using it?
A: "I saw my friends using it, thought it was cool."
Q: Did any of your friends do it also?
A: "Yes."
Q: After you started it, did you regret it?
A: "Yes."
Q: How long did it take you till you quit?
A: "6 years."
Q: Do you still know people who did Methamphetamine in school, and still do now?
A: "Yes."
Q: How old where you when you started doing methamphetamines?
A: "16"
Q: How long have you been in rehab?
A: "12 Days."
Q: If there was one thing you could say to kids other than "don't do drugs" what would it be?
A: "Take care of your teeth!"
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Copyright 2006 Mitchell A. Goodis, DDS
