Please! I hope nobody in DU does Meth.....

[Red State Rebel]

My daughter met a young man, age 23 who having had a Meth habit for a while has been diagnosed with Kidney problems. They are doing more testing but he may need to have dialysis. He was also diagnosed with a heart murmmer that has never shown up before.

Dr.'s believe that at the very least, the Kidney damage is from the Meth.

[LoZoccolo]

1. Here's more evidence to convince you.

http://www.tazewell.com/states%20attorney/meth_flyer.html

That woman agreed to have those pictures published in exchange for lesser punishment.

[maveric]

2. Worse than Heroin.

It fucks you up physically as well as mentally and it makes you violent.

[mrbassman03]

23. My cousin was on it..

The worst I've seen, way worse than alcohol, cigarettes, coke. METH SUCKS A FAT ONE! REALLY!

[rwenos]

3. SPEED KILLS

. . . after it destroys brain cells, that is.

Get that girl away from that meth head NOW!

[Indiana_Dem]

4. I would think that anyone involved in doing meth on a regular basis

would not really be interested in politics or much else for that matter.

[Johnny 99]

5. Ah, come to Indiana

Meth labs all over the place..it's fucking disgusting. People buy truck caps and put the labs in their trucks so that the cops have a hard time sniffing them out. Shit blows up all the time, too, becuase these idiots can't deal with the ether.

[Red State Rebel]

10. There was a car wreck not too far from us where their crap blew up

killed em both. Too stupid to live anyway.

[Roon]

11. Meth can be "cold cooked" now

No odor, no explosions.

[mrbassman03]

24. Nope, Skagit county in WA, Meth capital of the US...

It probably is a tie with Snohomish county, but noting to brag about...

[indigobusiness]

6. It is a genuine plague, Far worse than realized.

Bad, bad medicine.

[liberalmuse]

7. That is the scariest drug ever.

It's HUGE here in Salt Lake. I've met a number of people who are addicted. I know a lady who left her 3 boys and husband and is now on the streets because of a meth addiction and this was really a shock because she was a staunch Mormon. I like that Edwards brought up this issue in a speech the other day.

[Roon]

9. Thank the war on drugs eom

[bayby]

13. No fan of the War on Drugs, but

why do you hold it responsible ? Would things be better if meth (or pot) were legal ?

[Roon]

15. Meth got popular..

when we started clamping down on the smugglers.

[Old and In the Way]

16. How can you compare Methadrene to Pot?

Things would be better if pot was legal. People would not be "doing time" for a substance that's less toxic than alcohol.

[bayby]

22. Things would be better in the sense that stoners would not go to jail

but I still don't see how this would reduce the meth epidemic. Speed freaks can shoose from pot or speed, both of which are illegal but widely available. They'd just rather have speed. Not sure that the drug war has much effect on these people either good or bad.

[faithnotgreed]

14. wow. edwards talked about this the other day? i hope so

this stuff is killer - literally.

[MisterP]

18. it's also bad in Orange County; labs being busted all the time

[Roon]

8. Here in Denver and other major cities..

meth is really hurting the gay community. I was hooked on it when I drove semi back the late 80's. One thing I do know about meth, it's so addictive that is usually takes something tragic to happen to make you stop. Prison or death. In my case, I lost my 40,000 a year trucking job.

[bobaloo2]

12. the worst

In my llfe I've been around a lot of people who used and abused a lot of different drugs, and the two I've seen really screw people up are alcohol and speed in all it's variations.

I was up at a local hot springs retreat a while back and spent quite a bit of time chatting with a guy, turned out he'd come up there for 2 weeks to get off meth. He said he'd come home and his roommate, also a meth user, had spent the afternoon with a razor blade trying to cut out the bugs he was sure were crawling under his skin. That was enough to make even another addict decide it was time to quit.

[faithnotgreed]

20. man. thats just vicious stuff

[jdots]

25. i have heard that the nazis were very into meth

too bad it didn't end there. it's everywhere but not on this side of the fence.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. I'm going to print this thread and give it to my son...

Just in case he's ever tempted...

[onebigbadwulf]

19. All drugs that are excreted via the kidneys will cause kidney dmg (nt)

[vajraroshana]

21. It's big here too...here's a recent horror story...

The next county over from mine, Jackson, is very rural and has a big meth problem. Lots of labs being busted. Recently some people got busted after they had to take their baby to the hospital. They had reused a bottle for the baby that they had had meth in and the baby got very sick from the residue of meth that was left. Fortunately, I've heard that the baby lived and is going to be alright. Probably not so the parents.

Very scary drug.