Faces of Meth

mithrilG60 · 03-11-2010, 03:45 PM

One of the side effects of drugs like meth is hyper-stimulation of the skin's nerve endings. To many people this give a sensation like insect crawling under your skin. They get the sores from obsessively picking at their skin trying to get rid of the "bugs". It doesn't help that long-term use of meth produces psychosis which makes this behaviour worse.

borndead1 · 03-12-2010, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by mithrilG60

It doesn't help that long-term use of meth produces psychosis which makes this behaviour worse.

I had a friend go "over the edge", never to return. Had another friend get dangerously close to the edge. Luckily he's OK now...well, he's OK mentally. He did end up with Hepatitis C from shooting meth.

Long term users develop a weird sort of paranoid schizophrenia. There's always some kind of "plot" against them, people out to get them for something they did or something they know. The first friend ran off to Las Vegas because he was convinced that the DEA was after him for something he did in the 80s...he thought his house was bugged and the neighbor had cameras pointed at his windows. My second friend -- get this -- thought that his girlfriend was pregnant with another man's baby, and that he (my friend) had killed this baby by having sex with his girlfriend and "poisoning" her with his toxic sperm, and this other dude was out to kill him. I was ready to call the guys in white coats to haul him away, but managed to get him to go to sleep. When he woke up, I sat him down and had a LONG talk with him.

Most drugs, even harder ones like cocaine and heroin, have at least some kind of redeeming/medical quality in their pure form.

Meth does absolutely NOTHING except destroy people's lives.

OK...since someone else "came clean" in this thread, I will too.

I used to be a meth user, from age 19 to about 23. I also came dangerously close to drug-induced psychosis. Luckily my wake up call actually woke me up.

Most addicts get several "wake up calls". Some listen, some don't. I'm glad I did.

BUT THEY'RE STILL OUT TO GET ME!!!!!!!!!

03-11-2010, 03:45 PM	#1
mithrilG60 Feeling at Home Join Date: Dec 2008 First Name: Geoff Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 733 Trading: (2)	Re: Faces of Meth One of the side effects of drugs like meth is hyper-stimulation of the skin's nerve endings. To many people this give a sensation like insect crawling under your skin. They get the sores from obsessively picking at their skin trying to get rid of the "bugs". It doesn't help that long-term use of meth produces psychosis which makes this behaviour worse.