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This Is Your Brain on Meth: A 'Forest Fire' of Damage
NY Times ^
| July 20, 2004
| SANDRA BLAKESLEE
Posted on 07/19/2004 8:22:02 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: SunnySide
They look emaciated because they rarely eat. Meth is an appetite surpressant.
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posted on
07/20/2004 5:26:55 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: neverdem
"They look emaciated because they rarely eat. Meth is an appetite surpressant."
Yes I figure that was the reason for the skeletal appearance. I tested the trash I knew by buying her a lunch time sandwich to see if she'd eat it. I never saw her eat food and she never seemed hungry at normal eating times so I suspected she was abusing drugs. She just picked at the deli club sandwich and eventually tucked it away. I think she may have suspected I was testing her. Like I said they're extremely crafty albiet half their brain baked.
To: Churchjack; ravingnutter; sc2_ct
Thanks for sharing your stories. You will never know what it has meant to me. My beautiful, intelligent daughter went through a divorce a little over a year ago. Started dating a guy and within months was a psychotic mess. She looked like a skeleton. We are now raising her children. (Thus, my tagline.) She has tried to clean up. But she is still a wreck. And is probably going to prison and/or drug rehab as a result of her behavior. Try explaining to children what has happened to their life. According to the 2000 census, at least 27% of kids are being raised by grandparents. Drugs being the primary reason.
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posted on
07/20/2004 5:33:52 PM PDT
by
exhaustedmomma
(REtired: raising grandkids (pray for us))
To: 7.62 x 51mm
Why would anyone want to voluntarily do that to themselves? They enjoy the high and it's cheap. If they're not careful, they're addicted before they know it. I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who says they wanted to have any kind of chemical dependency.
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posted on
07/20/2004 5:34:37 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: neverdem
They look emaciated because they rarely eat. True, but the extreme appearance is not just due to that. With the loss of limbic system function, and other brain deficits, the users can know longer feel or express emotion properly.
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posted on
07/20/2004 5:41:07 PM PDT
by
steve86
To: neverdem
They enjoy the high and it's cheap. If they're not careful, they're addicted before they know it. I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who says they wanted to have any kind of chemical dependency.------------------
It's not a matter of being careful or you might get addicted, it's a matter of not using it at all or you will get addicted. I developed a physical dependency for it over the course of a weekend. Thankfully I got out fairly quickly, but not before dropping to 120 lbs (I'm was about 5'11" at the time and 15 years old) -- hard to imagine it's been almost a decade already and I still get cravings.
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posted on
07/20/2004 5:43:43 PM PDT
by
sc2_ct
To: exhaustedmomma
RE your tagline: So are we; seems like we spent all last year in court. But this case was not drug or crime related.
That 27% figure is really incredible! Do you have a census link on the net for it?
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posted on
07/20/2004 5:46:12 PM PDT
by
steve86
To: William Terrell
To: BearWash
My heart goes out to y'all. It is tough, but worth it... right?? I don't have time to look it (the stats) up now. You can go to the AARP site & look under grandparents raising grandchildren. It is either there, or on a link on the site... called Grandsplace (or something like that.)
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posted on
07/20/2004 6:07:21 PM PDT
by
exhaustedmomma
(REtired: raising grandkids (pray for us))
To: sc2_ct
It's not a matter of being careful or you might get addicted, it's a matter of not using it at all or you will get addicted. Many do become addicted, but not everyone. American flight surgeons prescribe relatively small doses to jet pilots for prolonged missions. The Wehrmacht issued it to its troops on the eastern front fighting against the Russians. Believe me, it's not universal. Certain individuals probably have a more pronounced genetic susceptability. IIRC, there are five types of dopamine receptors. The dopamine system is involved in all chemical addictions including alcohol and nicotine.
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posted on
07/20/2004 6:10:41 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: neverdem
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posted on
07/20/2004 6:11:56 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: sc2_ct
Congrats on being clean ten years.
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posted on
07/20/2004 6:13:56 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: gcruse
I imagine if you abused orange juice for ten years, a scan of your kidneys would be horrible, too. Good thing OJ isn't addictive.Yeah. And he's not a killer either...
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posted on
07/20/2004 8:29:19 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
To: sweetliberty
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posted on
07/20/2004 8:34:39 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
To: Churchjack
Welcome back, and thanks...
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posted on
07/20/2004 8:35:58 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Middle East n. former name for the region commonly known as Oil Under Glass)
To: sc2_ct
Would you say it's as bad as crack?
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posted on
07/20/2004 8:38:57 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: counterpunch
This will avoid NYT registration.
Doesn't constant exposure to the New York Times create similar brain damage? Seems to in TV anchormen.
97
posted on
07/20/2004 8:48:17 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(Ronald Reagan - Greatest President of the 20th Century.)
To: BearWash
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posted on
07/20/2004 9:00:17 PM PDT
by
exhaustedmomma
(REtired: raising grandkids (pray for us))
To: exhaustedmomma
Thanks!
And good luck to all of those involved on your side!
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posted on
07/20/2004 9:24:05 PM PDT
by
steve86
To: Oztrich Boy
Drug use is against the Law, should that not be the sufficient and the only reason for any behavioural decision? No. What about gun control laws? Should you give up your constitutional rights because liberals take over and try to take them away? What about abortion laws? Abortion might be legal but it's killing of a human being --- killing your own child. Drug use should be avoided because it's stupid --- including the use of most legal drugs.
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posted on
07/20/2004 9:30:51 PM PDT
by
FITZ
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