Meth Abuse Photos
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Meth Abuse Photos

Meth abuse photos can be disturbing, explicit, and graphic.

What is meth?

Methamphetamine is a powerfully addictive stimulant that dramatically affects the central nervous system. The drug is made easily in clandestine laboratories with relatively inexpensive over-the-counter ingredients. These factors combine to make meth a drug with high potential for widespread abuse.

This drug is commonly known as "speed," "meth," and "chalk".  In its smoked form it is often referred to as "ice," "crystal," "crank," and "glass". Meth abuse photos show that it is a white, odorless, bitter-tasting crystalline powder that easily dissolves in water or alcohol. The drug was developed early in this century from its parent drug, amphetamine, and was used originally in nasal decongestants and bronchial inhalers.

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Methamphetamine's chemical structure is similar to that of amphetamine, but it has more pronounced effects on the central nervous system. Like amphetamine, it causes increased activity, decreased appetite, and a general sense of well-being. The effects of methamphetamine can last 6 to 8 hours. After the initial "rush," there is typically a state of high agitation that in some individuals can lead to violent behavior as shown in many meth abuse photos.

Meth is a Schedule II stimulant, which means it has a high potential for abuse and is available only through a prescription that cannot be refilled. There are a few accepted medical reasons for its use, such as the treatment of narcolepsy, attention deficit disorder, and for short-term use obesity. These medical uses are limited.

How is meth used?

Meth abuse photos show that users abuse this drug in a variety of ways. Because this drug comes in many different forms it can be smoked, snorted, orally ingested, or injected. Meth has the ability to alter the user's mood in different ways, depending on how it is taken.

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Meth abuse photos often depict that immediately after smoking the drug or injecting it intravenously, the user experiences an intense rush or "flash" that lasts only a few minutes and is described as extremely pleasurable. Snorting or oral ingestion produces euphoria high but not an intense rush. Snorting produces effects within 3 to 5 minutes, and oral ingestion produces effects within 15 to 20 minutes.

As with similar stimulants, meth abuse photos illustrate that this drug is most often used in a "binge and crash" pattern. Because tolerance for methamphetamine occurs within minutes -- meaning that the pleasurable effects disappear even before the drug concentration in the blood falls significantly. Users try to maintain the high by bingeing on the drug.

Meth User
 
Meth Face

 

Meth abuse photos explains that this drug has three common abuse patterns: low intensity, binge, and high intensity. Low-intensity abuse describes an user who is not psychologically addicted to the drug and who administers the drug by swallowing or snorting it. Binge and high-intensity abusers are psychologically addicted and prefer to smoke or inject meth to achieve a faster and stronger high. The binge and high-intensity patterns of abuse differ in the frequency in which the drug is abused. While the binge pattern of abuse has seven stages within its cycle: rush, high, binge, tweaking, crash, normal, and withdrawal-the high-intensity abuse pattern usually does not include a state of normalcy or withdrawal.


Meth Abuse Photos
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