My husband was talking to WA state environmental officials, who told him that their statistics show that 80% of meth users get hooked on the first try. The drug is just highly addictive.
"My husband was talking to WA state environmental officials, who told him that their statistics show that 80% of meth users get hooked on the first try. The drug is just highly addictive."
It's really addictive bad stuff, but it's just not true that 80% of people get hooked on the first try. I don't think there are any drugs that people can actually get addicted to after using only once. People might like it a lot after the first try but they don't get to the point to where they can't live without it until they have done it for a while. Even with meth, most people who try it do not ever become addicted. If 80% became addicted we wouldn't have only had 567,000 people in this country reporting use within the last month out of the 12,383,000 who reported on the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use & Health that they have tried the stuff before.
http://www.samhsa.gov/oas/nhsda/2k2nsduh/html/Sect1peTabs1to110.htm#tab1.1a
Methamphetamine is still prescribed in this country on a limited basis for ADHD children and for weight loss. It is sold under the trade name "Desoxyn."
http://www.healthsquare.com/newrx/des1613.htm