Methamphetamine? Please Help!!!?
Question by Jessroo: Methamphetamine? please help!!!?
Okay, so I have to write a 3 page paper based on meth so I need to know alot about it.
Where it comes from?
On averge, how many people does it kill a year?
What does it hurt in the body?
Things like that.
I will also be researching this online myself while waiting for answers.
Thank you guys for the help and please no mean comments
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What is Methamphetamine?
A drug with immense abuse potential, methamphetamine (known on the street as “speed,” “meth,” “crank,” “crystal-meth,” and “glass”) is a central nervous system stimulant of the amphetamine family. Like cocaine, it is a powerful “upper” that produces alertness and elation, along with a variety of adverse reactions. The effects of methamphetamine, however, are much longer lasting than the effects of cocaine, yet the cost is much the same. For that reason, methamphetamine is sometimes called the “poor man’s cocaine.”
Developed by a Japanese chemist in 1919, methamphetamine was used during World War II to help soldiers stay alert and to energize factory workers. Although it is prescribed with great caution today, it is legally available in the United States for the treatment of attention deficit disorder and obesity.
How Does it Affect You?
At lower doses, methamphetamine makes the user feel energetic, alert, self-confident—even powerful. With continued use these pleasurable feelings typically diminish, and most users report the need for increasingly higher doses to achieve euphoria. Under the influence of the drug, users often become agitated and feel “wired.” Their behavior becomes unpredictable. They may be friendly and calm one moment, angry and terrified the next. Some feel compelled to repeat meaningless tasks, such as taking apart and reassembling bits of machinery. Others may pick at imaginary bugs on their skin.
After a number of days on methamphetamine, during which time they barely sleep or eat, users become too tired to continue or have no meth left and begin to “crash.” Initially, the crash is marked by agitated depression, sometimes accompanied by an urge for more methamphetamine. But these feelings soon give way to lethargy, followed by a long deep sleep. The depression returns, however, once the user awakens, and may last for days—a time when the potential for suicide is high.
With prolonged high-dose use or long binges, stimulant psychosis may develop. The psychotic user may feel intensely paranoid, hear voices, and experience bizarre delusions, believing, for example, that other people are talking about him or following him. Methamphetamine-induced panic and psychosis can be extremely dangerous and may result in incidents of extreme violence.
It is not unusual for psychosis to persist for days after the last dose of methamphetamine. Indeed, there are many reports of users remaining paranoid, delusional, apathetic, and socially withdrawn for weeks. Occasionally, methamphetamine-related psychosis lasts for years. But, in these cases, experts believe the drug has probably triggered symptoms of a pre-existing mental disorder.
Dangers and consequences of meth use:
Sleeplessness
Loss of appetite and weight loss
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
Elevated body temperature
Skin ulceration and infection, the result of picking at imaginary bugs
Paranoia
Depression
Irritability
Anxiety
Increased blood pressure, due to the constriction of blood vessels, that may produce headaches, chest pain, or irregular heartbeat and lead to stroke or heart attack
Seizures
Permanent damage to brain cells caused by injury to small blood vessels serving the brain
For pregnant women—premature labor, detachment of the placenta, and low birth weight babies with possible neurological damage, poor feeding, and lethargy
For intravenous (IV) users—AIDS, hepatitis, infections and sores at the injection site, and infection of the heart lining and valves (endocarditis)
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