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Meth Awareness day
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| diggerz |
Never tried it, never will. Information is the best anti-drug.
National Methamphetamine Awareness Day, 2006 - A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
Methamphetamine abuse has become a tremendous challenge for the entire Nation. Education, prevention, and community involvement are key parts of our National Strategy to reduce the demand for meth. People who know about the destructive effects of meth on the user and the community, are far less likely to use meth.
Please share what you learn about meth with everyone you know and together we will end the scourge of methamphetamine.
What is methamphetamine?
How is meth made?
How does meth affect a user?
How does meth affect everyone else?
WHAT IS METHAMPHETAMINE?
Methamphetamine is a powerful, highly addictive stimulant drug that dramatically affects the central nervous system. It is usually illegally produced and distributed.
Meth comes in several forms, including powder, crystal, rocks, and tablets. When it comes in the crystal form it is called “crystal meth.”
HOW IS METH MADE?
Unlike drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, which are derived from plants, meth can be manufactured using a variety of store bought chemicals.
The most common ingredient in meth is pseudoephedrine or ephedrine, commonly found in cold medicine. Through a cooking process the pseudoephedrine or ephedrine is chemically changed into meth. The ingredients that are used in the process of making meth can include: ether, paint thinner, Freon®, acetone, anhydrous ammonia, iodine crystals, red phosphorus, drain cleaner, battery acid, and lithium (taken from inside batteries).
There are two basic categories of meth labs:
Superlabs produce large quantities of meth and supply organized drug trafficking groups that sell the drug in communities across the U.S. Most of the larger labs are controlled by Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations operating in the U.S. and Mexico.
Small Toxic Labs produce smaller quantities of meth. These labs can be set up in homes, motel rooms, inside automobiles, and in parks or rural areas -- really almost anywhere.
HOW DOES METH AFFECT A USER?
Using meth causes an increase in energy and alertness, a decrease in appetite, and an intense euphoric “rush.” That’s in the short term.
With sustained use, a meth user can develop a tolerance to it. The user may take increasingly higher doses of meth trying to catch that high she first experienced. She may take it more frequently or may go on binges. She may change the way she takes meth. For example a user may have started by taking a pill, but as she develops a tolerance she may begin injecting it. Addiction is likely.
In the long term, a person using meth may experience irritability, fatigue, headaches, anxiety, sleeplessness, confusion, aggressive feelings, violent rages, cravings for more meth, and depression. They may become psychotic and experience paranoia, auditory hallucinations, mood disturbances, and delusions. The paranoia may lead to homicidal or suicidal thoughts.
A fairly common hallucination experienced by meth users is the so-called crank bug. The user gets the sensation that there are insects creeping on top of, or underneath, her skin. The user will pick at or scratch her skin trying to get rid of the imaginary bugs. This scratching can create open sores that may become infected.
I do not think it's worth it... |
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| mellow_head |
| Yeah, that's meth for ya! :whip: :thepirate |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by diggerz
Small Toxic Labs produce smaller quantities of meth. These labs can be set up in homes, motel rooms, inside automobiles, and in parks or rural areas -- really almost anywhere.
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haha what about in HOtel rooms? |
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| david.michael |
| Those pics make me horny. |
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| Krypton |
E is much better:whip:
At least its made out of sassafras tree extracts, or at least it's supposed to. |
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| DarkAngel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
E is much better:whip: |
+9,999 |
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| david.michael |
Anyone here who has actually tried meth and wants to comment? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
(We've had meth threads on here before but few seemed to have actually tried it. I remember one person in particular knew someone who had a problem and it ruined their life or some such, but I can't remember who it was.) |
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| Danny Ocean |
i've tried it on a couple of ocassions. Similar to coke, but a better high..feels much cleaner. No drip or paranoia. It gives you a burn in the nose when you snort it. Comes is crystals which you grind up and make into thin powder. It's great for having sex (thats why i was doing it in those couple of ocassions), you go on for hours and hours. It makes you more sexually agressive.
To be honest you have to be completely addicted and do it every single day for years to end up like in those pictures. I know someone who had a problem with it but he dosen't look like a meth head. |
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| pvdAngel |
Must...not...post...tiesto!
:wtf: @ pics |
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| Krypton |
Meth is very fun. Very. That's the appeal. It lasts for several hours, straight up, can't sleep, you have to wait for it to wear off, but it's very powerful. I think it's way more powerful than coke if you compare it amount to amount.
It's too risky for me to ever do it again. I stopped taking every drug I can get my hand on anyways, so I'm sticking to weed, E, lsd, salvia, and everything else thats not so bad:D |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Danny Ocean
i've tried it on a couple of ocassions. Similar to coke, but a better high..feels much cleaner. No drip or paranoia. |
yea, that's pretty much how i would describe my first (and last) experience with it. i did "glass" though...i think it's like a more purified form of "meth" which is yellowish. the stuff i did was clear/white.
but yea, it was like the perfect (clean) coke high for about 12 hours. lol
stayed up for 3 days straight and on day 3, was starting to get a little bugged out, but i took a whole xanax bar, and don't even remember crashing hard or anything like that.
it was such a wacky, fun weekend and i enjoyed it that i would never do it again. don't want to ruin my opinion of the drug. |
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