Now there’s a nightmare.
I take care of a jail in Texas–imagine that we didn’t have meth.
Speed and all its relatives, very habit forming–makes life a real kick for losers.
Period. It goes downhill from there.
Bad teeth, bad health, bad life, jail, drug dealing, violence, and on the other side, hopefully some kind of recovery because either you’re dead, in prison for a long time or you quit.
On the front end the thrill, the boost of speed. Available by needle, snort, smoke. A road to hell or something proximate.
How long before our “leaders” legalize meth?
that is naturally a product of efforts to make mind altering drugs part of the system.
for what purpose–some short term benefit.
meth is a black hole for desperate people who have no clue.
John Dale Dunn MD JD Consultant Emergency Services/Peer Review Civilian Faculty, Emergency Medicine Residency Carl R. Darnall Army Med Center Fort Hood, Texas Medical Officer, Sheriff Bobby Grubbs Brown County, Texas 325 784 6697 (h) 642 5073 (c)
I would expand this to include all illegal drugs and illegal activities involving alcohol. The massive reach of public education on the matter coupled with the severe legal penalties has pretty much guaranteed that no one with half a brain starts taking the stuff in the first place. At least a large part of the correlation between drug abuse and idiocy must be accounted for by the fact that only idiots take drugs to begin with.
It’s interesting to note how many pro baseball players were suddenly diagnosed with ADHD after the league started testing for speed.
Very thoughtful, and insightful.
The loss in judgment preceded the taking of the meth. This is evidenced by the taking of the meth in the first place. That the loss is deepened and accelerated is simply a continuation of a process already in place: a refusal to think, a refusal to identify the nature of reality and self, a refusal to value the continued existence of self, and a refusal to recognize that the individual must take personal responsibility for doing those things. The ultimate consequence follows as an exercise in mathematical logic.
Reality IS and no matter how much someone wishes it were otherwise, it remains exactly what it is. Going against that reality has serious consequences that are often fatal.
among other things, like a loss of judgment or control.
your point is a good one.
John Dale Dunn MD JD Consultant Emergency Services/Peer Review Civilian Faculty, Emergency Medicine Residency Carl R. Darnall Army Med Center Fort Hood, Texas Medical Officer, Sheriff Bobby Grubbs Brown County, Texas 325 784 6697 (h) 642 5073 (c)
The worst part of the meth experience is the sleep deprivation and the psychotic delusions that follow. Very dangerous for the public that interact with these kinds of people.
wrong, meth was doing quite well before the misdirection of add drugs might have occurred.
the add drugs are in a different middle class market, the hard ass meth was the bathtub stuff and got going in a culture you problably never saw–trucking, biking, bad boy/bad girl stuff.
not a nice bunch, the meth crowd.
John Dale Dunn MD JD Consultant Emergency Services/Peer Review Civilian Faculty, Emergency Medicine Residency Carl R. Darnall Army Med Center Fort Hood, Texas Medical Officer, Sheriff Bobby Grubbs Brown County, Texas 325 784 6697 (h) 642 5073 (c)
I personally think that all the misdiagnosis of ADD and ADHD and the subsequenct prescriptions of amphetamine based drugs has led to the meth issues the nation now faces.