This article describes it pretty antiseptically. I've been a cop for 16 years, went right through the crack days. Meth is the nastiest stuff I've seen. I watch beautiful young women turn into haggard old crones in the space of months. Legalizing it won't make the problem go away thats for sure. People make choices in life. Some of them make stupid decisions and pay for it the rest of their lives. So it goes with meth heads.
I was thinking the same thing, the article doesn't begin to tell of the horrors of meth addiction. The WSJ had an article on what they termed, "meth mouth", and ever since I read it, I am noticing more and more people, even ones that I know, exhibiting the signs of "meth mouth".
If it can do that to your teeth and gums, what is it doing to the rest of your body?
One of the biggest problems with meth is that making it does not require much in the way of space or money. A lot of rental properties are used as meth labs. The equipment and chemicals can be easily moved to another place. This makes it difficult for law enforcement to find and break up the meth labs. Meth labs are also extremely dangerous to the makers and the neighbors cause of instability of some of the chemicals used in the manufacturing.
The combination of easy manufacturing and availability and transport make for the ingredients of a growth industry. An industry that is poisoning much of our Country. If I remember correctly the rural Midwest is the center of the meth trade. God bless all our police officers and keep them safe in His hands.
I suspect my brother and his wife are on this drug. I allowed them to come visit me last week, when my husband was out of town and only me and my mother were here with those two.
When they first got here they both acted nervous, then my brother just went ballistic on me over some small insignificant thing. Then he threatened to kill me. This is a guy who would have never hurt a soul in the past.
I ended up calling the police and having them put him in jail. Then I had to physically remove his crazy wife (kick her ass) to get her out of my house. I called the police on her and they took her too.
After calling some folks back where they live and I used to live I have began to put two and two together. They have been stealing, going through huge amounts of money without paying their rent, etc.
My mother is crushed over this, and we are trying to figure out how to get help for him. Turns out he was in violation of probation and so I contacted his probation officer and we got him a year in jail.
I live in rural Tennessee, and just about everybody I know has a friend or family member who knows people affected by this stuff.
Not all rural southernors are rednecks, my husband and I are college educated, he is an air force retiree and I have a respectable career.
And it is not just a gay problem, the people I know of (including my brother) are married and have been raised with good values.
I am so upset by this and am hoping any freepers who have been through this can give me some advice on how to help my brother. He was fine until he met this woman and it has been downhill ever since. I'm not blaming her, he is an adult, but Mom and I want to try to get him away from her and her crazy drug-addled brother.