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:pu

What's up with all the sores on their faces?

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One reason for this is because users often feel like they have bugs under their skin and they obsessively pick at their skin until a sore forms. Also, acne appears on their skin because of poor hygiene and because blood is restricted from the vessels. Along with picking on these acne spots and the hallucination of bugs, sores take longer to heal.

Looks like the dude in the last pics also took some Rogaine. Or maybe meth regrows hair! Hmmmm :r

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Yeah.......that's more than enough reasons to not touch that stuff.

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One of the side effects of drugs like meth is hyper-stimulation of the skin's nerve endings. To many people this give a sensation like insect crawling under your skin. They get the sores from obsessively picking at their skin trying to get rid of the "bugs". It doesn't help that long-term use of meth produces psychosis which makes this behaviour worse.

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Pic 29-30 is hiliarious.:r Not funny that she became addicted to meth, but the transformation in appearance in general.

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These people had a issues before the meth addiction hence the "before" police photos. Very sad, but sometimes we have to make our own bed if you know what I mean.

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crazy

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That is one drug I'd never tangle with, ever.
I'll stick to caffeine, nicotine, and the occasional scotch:)

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I've seen this before, very scary. Had a friend that died from meth use.

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I was gonna comment that some look like the junkies around Florida and noticed it is Hillborough County Sherriff, so it IS the junkies around here.

Glad the stuff wasn't around when I was running wild, or at least i never saw it.

Not sure why, but meth is unfortunately popular with the redneck hillbilly crowd. Maybe it's cheap?

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I understand it's cheap to make and can be made from household items. My wife works at as a pharmacy tech, and all drugs like sudafed can only be purchase a box at a time and you have to submit your drivers license. It's an ingredient of meth apparently.

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That is one bad drug. read a book about it a while back, and it totally changes your brain chemistry, which all drugs do but meth does in one month what it takes takes coke a year or more to do.

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Meth (speed, crank, glass, ice) has been around for a long, long time.

Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai.

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So that's what was wrong with uncle Bill.:tu

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Imagine the stories behind the eyes.

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I've seen these pictures before... and I've seen more than my fair share of meth addicts. I minored in addiction studies, and the topic methamphetamine was my final piece for that class.

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Mmmmmm meth faces:dr

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Scary stuff...I am thankful to have never been around anything like that

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I dunno, but I was surprised the first few times I heard that Montana was the meth capital of the world. ND is pretty high on the list too.

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Holy crap! :pu

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That's sick.

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Trust me, it would scare you and most others. Addiction can & will take you places you never dreamed of & make you do things beyond reason. Trust me, I know firsthand.

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Meth actually helped 3-4's looks :r

On a serious note this is just terrible. 16 people that have thrown their lives away.

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Addition can re-write logic and reason in one's mind.

You think they declined physically on the outside, imagine what's going on internally. :confused:

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The speed and strength with which drugs take people away never ceases to amaze me. It's almost an impossible way back, too.

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We just watched a documentary featuring some of these pics in my Sociology class. It was very interesting and heartbreaking.

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Very disturbing and sad pictures. People throw their lives away for a quick hit.

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I had a friend go "over the edge", never to return. Had another friend get dangerously close to the edge. Luckily he's OK now...well, he's OK mentally. He did end up with Hepatitis C from shooting meth.

Long term users develop a weird sort of paranoid schizophrenia. There's always some kind of "plot" against them, people out to get them for something they did or something they know. The first friend ran off to Las Vegas because he was convinced that the DEA was after him for something he did in the 80s...he thought his house was bugged and the neighbor had cameras pointed at his windows. My second friend -- get this -- thought that his girlfriend was pregnant with another man's baby, and that he (my friend) had killed this baby by having sex with his girlfriend and "poisoning" her with his toxic sperm, and this other dude was out to kill him. I was ready to call the guys in white coats to haul him away, but managed to get him to go to sleep. When he woke up, I sat him down and had a LONG talk with him.

Most drugs, even harder ones like cocaine and heroin, have at least some kind of redeeming/medical quality in their pure form.

Meth does absolutely NOTHING except destroy people's lives.






OK...since someone else "came clean" in this thread, I will too.

I used to be a meth user, from age 19 to about 23. I also came dangerously close to drug-induced psychosis. Luckily my wake up call actually woke me up.

Most addicts get several "wake up calls". Some listen, some don't. I'm glad I did. :)
































BUT THEY'RE STILL OUT TO GET ME!!!!!!!!!:tf

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They all look like they lost a good chunk of weight.

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They call it the "Jenny Crank Diet" for a reason! :r

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The reason it is hitting small town america is it is easy for Bithlo Bob to set up a little chemisry set and crank it out in his single wide. Making easy money, Who cares about the lives it destroys.

To those BOTL that got over your addictions you have my respect. I can only imagine how tough it must have been