Meth abuse
Lynn’s Story: Addiction & Meth Use in Pregnancy
With two kids in DCFS custody she now uses meth to lull the pain and sadness it’s caused in her life. My heart breaks for her and her children… i have been doing meth for almost 7 in a half yrs. i have been doing it none stop every single day for the past 2 [...]
Well Here I am, Smoking a Foil as I Write…
A personal story about meth addiction submitted by a reader of this blog: Well here i am , smoking a foil as I write wanting to be clean eventually but right now (just got off work early and have the house my boyfriend and I share -all to myself)couldn’t be as happy as i am [...]
Man caught selling meth out of a kids store
Owner arrested for selling meth; Happy Moms and Kids Nutrition Store in Long Beach CA shut down. Happy Moms and Kids Nutrition Store sold food, clothing and other items to low income mothers – what they didn’t mention however is that they were also using the store front as a cover for a meth dealing [...]
Amy Winehouse Overdosed on Meth
So says her friend – Amy Winehouse O.D.’d on a mixture that contained crystal meth last year Just recently several sources reported that a friend of Amy Winehouse is telling all about how the singer overdosed on an almost-lethal mixture of drugs that included crystal meth, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and ketamine. Soon after that overdose [...]
Meth makes me skinny – I’m hot, right?
A couple of weeks ago on the Rants from the Gaslit blog I read the post called “Breaking Hearts on Meth” and I thought back to the many hundreds of times my friends told me they were doing speed to lose weight. These were girls who were only 15-17 years old. Their bodies had not [...]
“Successful” People Use Meth too
I get pretty sick of hearing that only white trash, low lives & homeless people use meth. I want to ask these self-proclaimed critics: How do you think they got that way? Maybe at one time in their life they were “successful”; maybe they are human and made a mistake that led them into the [...]
Babies born to meth addicted mothers
There is no better example in my mind that illustrates the strength of meth’s destructive power, than when you look at cases of meth addicted mothers – especially pregnant women that use meth. Of the strongest forms of love is that of a mother’s love for her children. Meth can even tear apart a biological [...]
Prometa – Controversial Meth Treatment Program
Although not approved by the FDA, Los Angeles-based Hythiam Inc., creators of the Prometa treatment program have been the subject of much controversy since it’s release in 2003. According to a recent article in the Chicago Tribune the treatment can be quite costly and has gotten mixed reviews from those who have ventured through the [...]
Try Meth – Kiss your future goodbye
Well that motto has a ring to it doesn’t it? If meth had a marketing campaign, this could be a trademarked slogan. Oh wait, meth does have a marketing campaign; it’s the house a couple blocks away or the guy you stood behind at the grocery store the other day. I don’t care where you [...]
Your Brain on Meth
Images are powerful – these ones especially. If you’ve ever used meth or have someone close to you that uses and wondered why meth can cause an inherent ability to just stop caring about things, maybe this will help explain. This is a photo of a SPECTscan done on a 28 year old “normal” woman’s [...]
