Crystal Meth Addiction
The Meth problem has become so severe that it is often referred to not as a meth addiction, but a meth obsession. Crystal Meth immediately releases dopamine, which induces the cravings. This drug is one of the most often used drugs globally. Whether in powder or rock form, Crystal Meth has immediate euphoric effects and also increases energy. Along with the fact that Meth is fairly easy to make and acquire, many people have made it their drug of choice.
You can snort, inject, mix in with drinks, or smoke Crystal Meth, but regardless of how you get it into your system, the affects are instantaneous. There is a loss of inhibitions, an incredible feeling of euphoria, and amazing increased energy. The combined affect of the drug has no doubt contributed to its popularity. There also are some telltale signs that generally identify Meth users after time. One of these is scabs and sores on the face. This is caused by the sensation of something on their face (referred to as meth lice), which makes the addict pick and scratch at it. Eventually this leads to many sores and scabs on the faces. Also, because Meth dries out the skin, users can have a shallow look about them. A dropped jaw is also another side effect of using meth. Unfortunately, sustained Meth use also can lead to child neglect and crime.
The effects of Meth are long lasting (up to 24 hours), which also makes it appealing to many users. Heroin and other drugs tend to only last for a couple of hours, depending on the dosage, can last longer. The problem is, Meth never, ever leads to good things. There are many tragic stories, but never good stories concerning Crystal Meth. Meth drug addiction has reached pandemic stages and it is a global concern. It does not matter how the abuser chooses to get the meth into their system it will lead to trouble. If you suspect a loved one has been using Meth, seek help immediately. If you are addicted to Meth, get help now. Things will go from bad to worse. There are no happy endings with Crystal Meth, only tragedies. End the suffering now by getting into a good drug rehab and getting help. It is possible to beat Crystal Meth and there is a happy life ahead for those who do. Avoid becoming another Crystal Meth statistic and instead become a success story.
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I really enjoyed reading this blog. I was a drug addict, never knew the effects of crystal meth because i was never caught up in that addiction- thank god!! it’s always good to have new knowledge concerning drugs, so i can help my fellow man.
Well I was addicted to meth since the age of seventeen. I was always trying to be the man and sell,and organize white collar crime licks to support the drugs and the lifestyle I was in. Believe you me the things that Ive done because of this drug are all behind me now but the people it hurt are still going through the pain. Ive been clean and sober for two and a half years, and let me tell you,being clean and sober is only hard if your stuck in the using times. The problems I had when getting off the drug was not the cravings really. It was the new and unknown thing I have never experienced called regular life! Like getting a job and holding on to it, and the hardest part is getting trust built back with family and people in the community who knew me as a user. They all dont forgive or give praise to easily if at all. All you have to do is know that if you show good intentions and you work everyday and fulfill the working man lifestyle,then people that looked at you before wont need you to tell them they will see it, and thats what counts(actions )not words, we all know talk is cheap.
When I say I was on meth, I meant I shot up smoked and how ever else you can do it I did it. The day that I dicided to quit, I was in the lowest state of self and mind that I had ever been. I didnt have anyone to lean on for advice or help take me in. I decided to leave town and go live with some cuzzins of mine who also where dabblers of meth. But I was clean had food and was focused on getting a job and holding it and keeping myself away from the users was easy, I just chased them off from my cuzzins house every chance I could. I would make every excuse to not like them besides the obvious, so they would get tired of coming around. and they did they left me alone for the rest of my time their. So I worked and got myself in the position to where the people I loved could see I was doing the right thing know and that I am making a true effort to change my life. and let me tell you I had to walk to work evryday and to make things worse I had recently broke my foot and instead of calling in and ruining my low guy on the totum pole job I walk still and performed my job. for a year. After that I started to get to know my parents again who had before lost hope and didnt want me around. it takes time to get trust back but you cant quit for a day and expect them to bow to your every need. you have to be stronger than the rest and overcome all. dont get discouraged and dont go back to the same crowed or people. I am now a contractor for the military making 85 an hour. and I got to thios point bcause I wanted more out of life than what I was doing. and the ONLY cure for drug addiction is you making the decision to stop and get away and do it on your own. The old crowed wont help[ you they will get you high before they get you sober. they are sick like I was. Ive seen some of the old people I had done alot of dope with around and let me tell you they are still doing the same thing and they still have nothing to show for. and most of the other ares are dead or in jail or prison. dont give up on yourself when everyone else has. make a stand and just do it!
i agree im 21 years old and i started smoking meth at the age of 18 and after six months of doing it i notice how bad i was looking i looked pale and weak and i would be paranoid all the time. i felt hopeless and didnt want to do anything but still to this day im not giving up i fallen back but still not giving up so please people dont do meth is the devil
I just recently started doing it And I don’t think it’s that bad I know how to control it unlike many other people I don’t have a weak mind if I wanted to stop I can do it without a heartbeat
I said the same thing, 6 months later im sitting in a drug rehab thinking and wondering how i got this bad. Ive been in and out of treatment centers trying to stay sober, its been hard for me but i havent gave up.
I am not a user but I just found out my brother is and his son as well. I could tell he was on something easily as I know what the symptoms are and I grew up watching my uncle lie about his drinking/drug problem. Funny that my brother thinks he can lie thinking he is out smarting our family. He was just admitted to the ER for Pericarditis and stayed there for 3 days, the night he got out I spoke to him and he still was in a little pain but the next day (today) I can tell (I know) he did something. He is even getting paranoid and asking me if our family is coming over tommorrow to confront him. He suspects that or one of us calling the cops on him. He acts like a child and threatens me …says if I do anything (get him help or start confronting him, or call the cops on him) who knows what he will do. I fear he is severly depressed and this addiction is worse than I suspected. Can I force him to go to rehab?
gio p, look back at your comments in 6 months and see if you still feel that way then. after 3 years of meth use, i am now stuck so deep in a hole, struggling with addiction constantly and in total isolation, and i’ve done things that i now have to live with everyday which cause me endless amounts of guilt and anxiety. i cant relate to anybody around me because i went too far with everything, did it alone and now ive lost the bonds with all my old friends who i used to be able to share problems with. now nobody even knows what i do because i lied to everybody for so long that i managed to progress rapidly from smoking meth daily to shooting dangerous amounts and going on 6 day psychotic rampages which would leave me scared to the core with flash memories and police calls of insane situations id somehow been involved in at some point, but i wouldn’t have a clue about what may have happened throughout the rest of the benders. and no one around me knew it was even happening. the overwhelming paranoia it had planted in my brain and the need to shut my mind up led me straight to shooting smack daily as a hopeless tactic to keep my mind off shard. thats when i realised id unknowingly stepped out of life and to this point its like im just not here. my addiction squashed all logic out of my brain and i believed i could use heroin to kick ice because “i never had a real taste for smack, so its better than shooting meth’. in less than no time i was cooking up big shots of meth and smack together, have a shot and be off in a blurred out nightmare of delusion and hallucinatory mindstates for days at a time. i soon found heroins charm in the idea that it could be a weekly high nice and mellow every night of the week, then get on meth for the weekends only..and of course i cant distinguish when iit happened, but i stopped for a second and thought ‘hang on, this isnt right. im shooting ice and smack flat out now, im now just an all out junky. scoring off the streets and being part of scenes which have taken my sense of inocence completely. i miss all my family and friends who i have let down and betrayed, even though i see them nearly every day. they just dont know the things ive done and i dont know how ill ever be able to verbalize the darkness of my secrets to anyone, nor forgive myself. addiction has taught me in the harshest way that sometimes when you open up a door, its open for life. some poor decisions made can result in consequences so morbidly negative that they can change the world you take for granted into, quite literally, a living hell. at this point i have no feelings of confidence or self worthy which are affecting my relationship because im so incapable of excepting my beatiful girlfriend’s love that i unwillingly have thoughts that maybe i dont have strength enough to help her. she’s a user too, but i selfishly introduced her to needles. she tries so hard to keep strong for me but i just keep fucking it up. she made me really see how selfish i become when theres drugs involved. so i havent shot anything for a week now. but the sad truth is that in the back my mind, i still have that dominant voice organizing to get more. and half the time i do.but im actually trying this time and its been alot better lately, hopefully continues!. now its just dealing with the recognition of the scars you are left with long after the abuse stops.
When I first began using meth I would snort it on Fridays only so by Monday I could be good to go back to work.
Two months later I start snorting small lines on weekdays big lines on weekends.
Third month I stopped hanging out with more than half of my friends. I was only able to convice one friend to try it with me which I now feel bad.
Five months later we start smoking it.
Six months later I take one hit in the morning and three hits when I get home from work. It’s been six months and now all I do is I lock myself in my room all day play Xbox live and smoke some Crystals.
When I got to my fifth month of doing meth I wanted to quit but I can’t it’s too hard. I’ve done cocaine, weed, and even beer and I’ve been able to quit but methamphetamine is too difficult.
My family is starting to notice too because just recently they have been saying that I’m losing a lot of weight I try telling them it’s just their imagination but I know I have.
whatever, what world are you living in????????????????????
Hello. I am a future bad-ass. What I mean by that is….I have been a meth addict for 20 years. It is hard to believe it has been this long, but time goes by so much faster than we think. I have a seventeen year old son. He is the most wonderful person on this planet, as far as I am concerned. He has lived with my addiction his whole life.(there was a five year break in the action for me from the years 2001-2005) I guess that is actually four years. But, after the four years sober, meth was way worse an addiction the second time around. I have never been arrested, or never got into the secondary crime associated with meth(identity theft, copper theft, etc.) in-fact, I own my own business and also own a house. This is not the norm for people like me, I know. I know a lot of meth users, believe me. I have been ripped off, I’ve been deep in debt and I have had it!!!! I am not saying that all meth users are losers, but for the most part, we are. We wouldn’t be, though, I am sure if it weren’t for the drug. Most of us talk about cool jobs we had, or family we don’t speak to anymore, or ex wives and husbands, or kids we don’t have custody of anymore. Some of us are talented artists, many, Have extremely high IQs and are very witty. Meth users are most often demonized by society. We’re not demons, we’re usually just really far into the stuff. I used it every day. (Except for some Sundays when I would sleep the entire day) My good friend just suffered a stroke due to a heart condition and medication that should never be used with meth. Did he stop using? No. It breaks my heart. It is sad. My biggest regret is that my son is seventeen and we never did kid/mom stuff together. Well, about month ago, I decided that I want to be “bad ass” and I figured that being “bad-ass” could not include meth. I am now a month sober, please wish me well, I don’t like meth anymore. I hate meth. I feel good now, I know that I am not out of the woods, yet, maybe never, but I feel confident and strong, I am becoming the “bad-ass” I know I can be. I hope that maybe there are other “future bad-asses” that will be strong and most of all, be honest, with yourself, and others. Honesty helps a lot. Truthfully, there is only one way to stop…that is to STOP. Right now, not when your half g is gone, not when finals are over, not when your girlfriend/boyfriend is ready…..NOW! just do it. Give your shit away, throw it away, smash your glass, sell your scale, QUIT! People will come like the devil for some reason when you try to quit. People who owed you a teener from two years ago or people who never had their own dope but all of a sudden want to get you high will show up, it is amazing, but it never fails…if you tell them you quit, they go away. Tweekers have no use for you aside from dope. Well, there is a lot more to my story, but this is the beginning of a new story, so I will start here. Now. Thank you for reading my post.
I so wish my time was over.im doing my rehab at home,under the watchfull eyes of my brother.its very painfull.i just wana run through walls.meth is the worst drug to get away from.im slightly losing my mind.every second hurts like hell.i cant take it
Hi, can someone tell me how I can help my brother?He just told me that he has been using ice for two years, that he is an addict and he wants to quit. I am devastated and don’t know how to help him. He lives with a bunch of junkie students in another country.I asked him to move out of that shit hole but he said he wants to be there and stop it from there.He even told me not to call him and trust him. Please, please somebody tell me what I should do.
Addiction can be a nasty thing. My addiction almost killed me. Thanks to my faith and a great recovery program, I a much better person now. After my recovery, I wrote a book called Praying for Strength, which outlines my struggle. My blog is also about recovery. You’re invited to come and visit. I’d like to know your recovery story too: hppt://prayingforstrength.authorsolutions.com
my ex was taking the drg and h started to think people were against him people in shops were also in it to make him go crazy and out to hurt him, he started thinking i was out to kill him and set him up, even thought his own family, he started actimg strange dressing up in black going around peoples places to c who was in it, but in reality no ome was, his so called friends would play on it and at tje emd of the day i would suffer for it.
Finally he went to rehab came out normal but now im affriad its starting all over again i worry that his so down and depressed that he might take his own life because of how much he believes ppl are trying to hurt him and his family i dont know what to do, he is a smart and intelligent person and has so much potential he evem thought hen i were chiped and thats how people found him being recorded taped etc what is the best thing to do?
I am a mom of 33 yr old man who has been addicted for 15 plus years. He is in the hospital ready to be released. He had kidney failure admitted in critical condition but alive. Dialysis for three days in ICU for a week and a half. One week out of ICU they are releasing him. WHere does he want to go? The detox/rehab cneter we managed to accept him (most won’t with kidney failure) noooo but the half way house he has been living off and on where drugs are available.
Kill yourselves with you drug use – but know you are killing parents, brothers, grandparents and friends along with yourself. The pain and hurt you give those people who love you unconditionally is going to earn you your place in hell. Your family is hell you will be too.
im 14 years old im a girl. ive been smokin meth atleast weekly for a good two months. i still look good but i can tell ive gotten skinnier nd im startn to get not pain or sick but physically bad when im not high. im not full out addicted yet but i do want it ALOT. i dont wanna stop nd i dont wana get worse i dunno what to do. its so easy to get for me its unbelievable countless friends will buy it for me nd get high with me nd when i am on it i stay up for days without eatin or sleepin. i dont know what i should do. i know i should stop but the idea doesnt seem appealin. i dont like takin advice from people cuz they never done it but advice from an addict or someone who used to be an addict i would listen to… idunno i jus dont wana go overboard but i dont wana quit. havent got high all day for the first time in 2 weeks nd i feel like shit
I used to do it and now I think its dumb who wants to stay up and not eat smokin pot is mine of choice
i am 15 years old i do meth almost everyday the excitment is fuckign dope , cant get enough of the shitt , but i dont want to end up like some meth heads i see . but i want to do it for a bit more then stop as becasue i dont wantt to take it to the point i die but i honesty dont care if i end up in hospital its all good i can deal with that i jsut want to be alive in a cofine then wake up and be like helloo alll im still alive mofo
I am a huge faggot and I like to drink crystal meth. I’m a huge fucking faggot and have been addicted for about 20 years no, since the age of 11. Fuck help, I’m too much of a hardass for that. I Heart Crystal Meth!
if you have been doin dope for 20 yrs (as did I)there is NOTHING i can tell you that you dont ALREADY know….But i will say..YOU ALLREADY KNOW !!! Dude the porn, orgys, and voices in your head are no way to live…..if i can get off that shit ANYONE can…
dopeless hopefiend@John
We can talk and preach till we re blue in the face !!!! The fact is…we aint gonna be “done” till we re done…..but i will say there is a better life….I was a hardcore “blue collar” junkie for 20 yrs, thats some evil SHIT !!!! I saw the DEMONS…get some sleep people
@trent
Hey mate, I feel for you, if you wanna chat my email is lloydyc@mail.com. I’m also “recovering” but I had a recent slip after a year up…send me an email.
Id like to stop ill tell you that
Sally get him out that house,he said he want to quit he wont if he remins there do what you have to
@robert cabrera
This life sucks i been fight a long time
just stick to weed. this shit is no good it takes away your life. NEVER try this
Don’t you think weed will take away your life, just thought I would as; you know, being a drug is a drug.
100% agree.. go on the frank website and get off the stuff you arrogant people. i say arrogant because you know the effects it can have on your bodies and your ignoring them!!!! HAHAHA oh ok then, and by arrogant i also mean what about your loved ones? mums/dads/neices/nephews/sisters/brothers/KIDS???? you carry on you cruel sick people. get off the stuff. like @nickHayes said, a drug is a drug, people die of alcohol and tobacco..? YES so do the right thing! this gets me angry only because you cant see what your doing to other people! thanks for reading, rant over@Nick Hayes
@Gio P i was actually thinking of trying it once.. hope i don’t get hooked but i don’t know i kinda feel curious bout the whole thing. do you really hallucinate and such?
No, you can’t force him to go to rehab. He will stop using only if he wants to but not until then. My brother went through the exact same thing and it took him going to jail for 2 yrs just to sober him up. He’s out now and as far as my family and I no he is still doing good but a part of me thinks the worst. I am praying for you and your family.
You can’t force him to go to rehab. He will stop only when he is ready. My family has gone through the exact same thing with my brother. It took him 2 yrs in jail just to sober up. He’s out now and still doing ok that we no of. We don’t see him much but when we have he looks good. There is still a part of me that thinks the worst. I am praying for you and your family.
Hell yeah!!! I wish everyone had your drive!!!!! Good for you!!!!!
@Llewelyn
Yes you can love just take it one day at a time DON’T GIVE UP!!! Each day you are one step closer to being clean and you can start over!!
@Future Bad-Ass
i am just wondering how you are doing. are you still clean? i have been addicted for 17 years. i read your story and it was like reading my life.
Still very clean, and it is possible for you to achieve it as well.