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 live; if you’re shaking your head in disbelief thinking you live in an existence sheltered from meth, it may be time for a reality check.

According to the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an estimated 10.4 million people age 12 or older (4.3 percent of the population) have tried methamphetamine at some time in their lives. Approximately 1.3 million reported past-year methamphetamine use, and 512,000 reported current (past-month) use. Moreover, the 2005 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey of student drug use and attitudes reported 4.5 percent of high school seniors had used methamphetamine within their lifetimes, while 8th-graders and 10th-graders reported lifetime use at 3.1 and 4.1 percent, respectively.

Meth is addictive. Scratch that, Meth is highly addictive. There are very few people that try it once and move on. The high that it brings leaves people in a never-ending downward spiral chasing it.

Although methamphetamine is said to be addictive with just one use, that’s not necessarily so. For example, if you take 100 people and give them alcohol to drink every day for three weeks, eight of those people — or 8 percent — will become addicted to alcohol, Schultz explained.

On the other hand, out of that same group of 100 people, if you give them methamphetamine twice, 90 of them — or 90 percent — will become addicted to methamphetamine. (From the Dunn County News)

The high is in fact so short lived that a person can become consumed with getting it back after just a couple of uses. The meth high is caused by a rush of dopamine flooding the brain. When a person uses meth long enough the brain stops producing dopamine naturally. Thus the feeling of “crashing” or “coming down”. It is said that the ability to produce dopamine naturally can never truly be recovered for a person who has been addicted to meth. The ability to feel good naturally can be practically impossible to come by.

It’s definitely alot easier to stay off of drugs than it is to come off drugs.

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