Methamphetamine is a highly addictive synthetic stimulant that affects the pleasure centers of the brain. It is considered even more addictive than heroin. Meth is sometimes referred to as "Speed," "Chalk," "Ice," "Crystal," "Glass," "Crank," "Yaba," "Fire," "Tina," and "Tweak."
Meth releases high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine (three to four time the levels attributable to cocaine), which stimulates brain cells, enhances mood and body movement, and regulates feelings of pleasure. With repeated use, Meth can "turn off" the brain's ability to produce dopamine, leaving users unable to experience any kind of pleasure from anything other than more and more Meth. Meth can be swallowed, snorted, smoked, or injected. Depending on the method of intake, the high from Meth can last from 6 to 24 hours.
Meth is derived from amphetamine and is commonly made using the base chemicals ephedrine or pseudoephedrine found in over-the-counter medicines. Other common household products added to the manufacture of Meth include: acetone (nail polish remover), iodine, anhydrous ammonia (fertilizer), hydrochloric acid (pool chemicals), lithium (batteries), red phosphorus (matches or road flares), sodium hydroxide (lye), sulfuric acid (drain cleaner), and toluene (brake fluid). Although there are multiple ways to produce Meth, most involve the use of toxic and volatile substances that pose a threat to the surrounding area.
For every pound of Meth produced, approximately seven pounds of toxic waste is generated. This waste may include corrosive liquids, acid vapors, heavy metals, solvents, and other harmful materials. Because of the illicit nature of Meth production, waste is often dumped haphazardly, contaminating watersheds used by humans and animals.
Meth users are often seduced by the intensity of the initial high—a high many say is unlike anything they have experienced before.
Almost immediately, users build up a tolerance for the drug, causing them to vary the quantity, frequency, or method of intake in an effort to recreate that first experience. Even with sustained low-level usage, a person will often begin to experience symptoms such as drug craving, extreme weight loss, loss of muscle tone, and tooth decay, along with withdrawal-related depression and other symptoms. High doses can elevate body temperature to dangerous—sometimes lethal—levels, as well as cause convulsions.
Long-term Meth abuse may result in many damaging effects, including violent behavior, anxiety, confusion, insomnia, paranoia, auditory hallucinations, mood disturbances and delusions (for example, the sensation of insects crawling on the skin). Chronic use frequently leads to symptoms such as neurotoxicity (brain damage), respiratory problems, irregular heartbeat, and irreversible damage to blood vessels in the brain—producing strokes, heart and kidney damage, cardiovascular collapse, and death.
Because of this pictures and movies I finnaly looked in the mirror and saw what have heroin done to me.
A friend of mine (the only friend i've got) knew I was on heroin. He didn't know how to help me and I didn't care. But than he brought me some pictures and he told me there were teens, destroyed by heroin. In the bottom of the list it was a link. http://completeall.com/Informative/Meth-Drug-Info-and-Effects.html I thought pictures were really awfull and I didn't think that I am one of this destroyed teens. At home I wrote link and came to this site. I found another drug, meth. I saw what can it do to you. I looked in a mirror and saw I'm just another person destroyed by drug. From that day, it was 28th December 2007, I never took heroin or any other drug again. 4 Months passed and I'm still clean.
I must say thank you thank you thank you Alex for showing me those pictures and helping me to stay clean. And thank you guys for showing this pics and comments on the internet.
You have many choices as a teen. Drugs are not one of them.
PS.: Please Martin. Look in the mirror as I did 4 months ago and relise that drugs are bad. Really bad. You can have a really perfect life. Without meth.
_________________________________________ Always look on the bright site of life.
Love, Smiley.
Guest
12. 01-05-2008 12:53
Think. Think. Think.
this is why i stay high !
Guest
13. 01-05-2008 15:10
wow.. smiley..
smiley i adore you. i really do... and your friend alex must be really really perfect guy.. :D i'm happy to you girl
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