meth is the most destructive and horrible drug in the world right along with heroin all they do is destroy lives and make people turn into animals to get what they want or need......

Yeah but it's important to have a little more compassion. Most people use it because they are completely unhappy with their lives and something FINALLY makes them feel good. I'm not defending it. But I can understand how people become addicted.

true i have been aroun a lot of people that dont it and the reason was to get rid of the pain and sad ness and i most likely would start my life has went to * cant get much worse

i know why people do meth because i use to do it. it is a drug that makes you feel happy no matter what. it will take all your worries away and you wont care bout anything. not even your kids. i learned the hard way that it is the most horrible drug in the world. i can understand why people do it and i hate the fact that people abuse it. i hate the fact that once you did the drug you are a tweeker or a drug addict even if you got of and have been clean for almost a year. i am 18 and i was doing meth from the age of 13-17. i lost my home friends family everything i owned because of this drug. i hate it andf i hope that everyone who does it realizes what they are douing to them selves and to the ones that love them.

I thank God everyday that I never became addicted to meth. In my life I tried it 3 times and the results were so ugly I swore I would never make it a habit. Unfortunately I have a brother facing life without parole in jail and I made a baby with a girl who I thought I could help her kick the habit. Obviously she went back to the habit after I broke up with her and now I'm in a big mess trying to get my daughter back from the state. My brother's own lawyer says he has a 90% chance of getting life. Thank God I never became addicted. For someone who never really did it, I have enough experience with the drug to last me a lifetime!

I did meth 3 times in my life. The 1st time I didn't do enough to feel anything but agitated and restless. But the next 2 times were pure euphoria so I can totally understand how people become addicted. Unfortunately the vast majority of the time the stereotypes of meth addicts rings true. They've either stolen from me, or started fights with me because they were agitated, or they've lied and spread terrible untruths because of their own paranoia. They have to steal to support their habit, or they live in a fantasy world where everyone is out to get them no matter how long they've known the person. I can meet someone and think they're an awesome person and then as soon as I find they are a meth addict I lose all my trust for them and just know they're going to burn me some how, some way. They lose the desire to care about their appearance and they just don't care what other people think about them. As long as they have their "fix" and a nice, dark place to enjoy their high, they think they're all set. Then it's time to take a perfectly good product and take it apart piece by piece. I would go to work or leave my place just to come home and find my t.v. or my computer or my v.c.r. in disarray, if it wasn't already at the pawn shop and my brother and 1 or more friends locked in my bathroom.. It's funny how they can take something apart, but they can't usually put it back together. After his habit started, I didn't even know my own brother anymore. He was not the person I grew up with. He use to be a highly intelligent person who was always 1 step ahead of everyone else. Then he and his wife, also an addict, ended up losing everything and sleeping on my couch. It was beyond them why I kicked them out after they either destroyed or stole anything they could get their hands on. Then I was the bad guy for leaving them on the street. How could I turn my back on my own brother? Although at the time I felt I was doing the right thing, I now wonder if I could have prevented him from doing the heinous crime that he is facing life for. What could I have done differently? If I would have let him stay, could I have saved him? I am almost destroyed over the fact that he is looking at life without parole, it breaks my heart. He was my best friend, and now I'll probably lose him forever. For anyone reading this, please pray for my brother and wish the best for him. By the way, he's in jail for 2nd degree murder and attempted murder. He had been up for over a week and doesn't even remember commiting the crime. His brain is permanently damaged from the drug. It takes all my strength not to break down and cry everytime I go visit him. I feel so powerless over the situation and would do anything I could to prevent the next person from making the same mistakes my brother did. Please keep my brother and my family in your prayers. Pray for me to have the strength to stay strong for my brother and my family. After hearing of my brother's crime, my mother had a heart attack and now has a pacemaker and has been in and out of the hospital. I don't think she has that much time left. So because of this demonic drug, I'm losing my mother and my brother and my sister. My sister is acting like an ostrich sticking her head in the sand. She has practically disowned the rest of her family because she can't stand to face our dilemma. 1 drug, 1 family utterly destroyed.

hey Jamie. That's a sad story. But it helps me, as I try to make sense of my own experience (1st) of caring about a meth head. . . so, thankyou for posting it. You are in a tough spot. I believe in doing the wake-up call: I called the police after my "friend" lied and stole from me. There is Good out there, and sometimes it comes in crazy packages . . . even prison. I will pray for your brother and sister in law right now that their mind will come round to sanity, and their hearts soften to be human again, that they will know God, who wants to redeem their lives, not leave them all torn up, and you all torn up either because you love them.
I also pray for you, for your strength of spirit and character in all this, that your life will be a gift to many who are going through similar nightmares, and that you will stand strong against this drug for your entire lifetime. If you don't know God, I pray you want him and find him. He is the supernatural source able to fight this evil. Patiently and consistently Seek Him, and He will be found. This is not a bunch of candy, fluff, surface talk. Dare to seek Him.

it is not a big drug here in the city that bleeds (Baltimore) we just have the coke and herion and the gangs killing people.If you are planning to coming to Baltimore do not come it is nasty and i lived here for 40 years

Meth just killed my Niece and two other women, as the and my brother were trying to make it. Which they had done before. THis time was fatal for all four. My brother lived and is in the hospital in an induced coma, when he awakes and learns his daughter died, he will die by his own hands. His history with meth is overwhelming. He is not strong enough to make it through this tragedy. 4 lost souls all perished. A tragedy that has no answers or a cure. Officials think locking them up is the answer and it it isn't , nor is rehab for 2 weeks or 3 months or 6 months. As a minor all to often they get their hands slapped too often , by the time they get in big trouble it's too late they are already addicted. Meth is a killer, it took 4.

meth is horrible drug that i seen my bestfriend struggle with for the past four years. i live in Muhlenberg County Kentucky and our nickname is Methenberg because meth is so popular here, i would have to say that at the end of every corner here someone has either been on meth or is doing it now. i would love for someone to come and speak to the kids at my school so they would know what meth really is and the effects it has on yourself family and friends. i watched my bestfriend hit rock bottom and finally rise up to what she used to be. i see more and more young children smoking pot and i know that it only leades to worse things like meth. i am a 17 year old concerned student from Muhlenberg Nroth High ....Godd belss those who have the strength like me to avoid drugs and god help the ones who are struggling with the addiction....

Meth tore my whole family apart when I was 11, my dad made meth in our house and made my mom think that he was going to sop but didnt. Meth made him a very angry person. I actually only seen him lash out twice. The first time he was banging his head on our basement door the second time he jumped on top of my mom and started yelling at her. That was the last straw. After my mom left he got busted once and the just found a little weed in his house. About a week later they made the big bust and said he might be sentenced to 40 years in prison for making and the attempt to sell. He got off though with 3 and a half years of probation. I dont wish that kind of hardship on anyone because this has still affected my life years later. Im now 18 and have NEVER touched a drug in my life and do not intend to do so. I still have all of those horrible memories running through my mind everyday and think about how this drug tore my parents apart after 18 years of marriage. I hope people relize the true outcome of this drug and realize it is NOT worth it.

Jamie, I cried reading your post. I will always keep you and your family in prayer. I don't know what the future holds but I pray that out of this tragedy you will be a voice for otheres and that your brother will come out of the bondage he is in.

God Bless
Salu

My then boyfriend introduced me to meth Spring Break 2003, and it was love at first inhalation. Not only was the intense euphoria extremely pleasureable, but I enjoyed the "verbal diarrhea" which ensues. We would just talk, discussing ideas, debate, etc. all the while bonding our relationship with each other and with meth. The sex was incredible! For the first time I was experiencing vaginal orgasms. I developed deeper feelings for him than I have ever had for anyone in the past. I was in really deep with him, and meth. enabled me to live my fantasy, romance novel life with him--until we couldn't get it anymore. Luckily, up until this point (Jan 06) I had only used meth. maybe around 20 times at the utmost, never tweaking, and always keeping focused on my job obligations, etc. Coming down was tough (b/c you become soooo sad!), but after awhile I learned to intellectualize the negative feelings. Thus, I never lost anything to meth. except my boyfriend. Our relationship suffered the last 2 1/2 years. I felt like we had lost our special, idyllic "world." He saw others on the side, lied about trivial things pathologically, emotionally/mentally abused me, etc. until I finally said "Enough" in 08.

I didn't mention that he had resigned from a good job position, at a major transportation/shipping company late in 03 (he had been placed on probation a few months earlier) to work as a DJ (fun job filled with temptations and blind to drug use). He lost that job in 07 after walking off the scene, yelling at managers. I understand he found another DJ gig in 08 which lasted three months, and since then nothing. Yes, his mortgage is paid off as is his vehicle. He has some savings.

Is it insane that I am often envious of his hedonistic lifestyle? Yet I continue to go to work and do what society expects its citizens to do. I worked very hard (getting a Bachelor's before I had met him) to get where I am today.

Although I never developed "meth mouth," nor did my appearance change, I did have to have a molar pulled. Several cavities became crowns.

WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER!

I am 16 yrs old, and i have tried meth for my very first time at the age 15. i come from a family that is always there for you no matter the problem your in. but now i wish i never tried it. i am living in a group home, and wishing i could be with my family. when they found out i was using the drug it was already to late for me, i was addicted, they disowned me from then, and they still do until this day. (o8-o2-2o1o) i regret the day i started and i regret the day i was ever introduced to it. i hope any other teenagers who are reading this will think twice before they think about using. and like people say "It was a little breath of heaven" but it gave me a life of hell... --○[Unknown16]○--

My daughter was using meth for 1 yr and near then end of the yr the meth she was getting was turning black when she was smoking it, she started seeing and hearing things. she has been clean since Jan 2010 and now believes that it was cut with windex. She is suffering major panic attachs and thinks this could be from the windex. Please help me to understand if this could be true and if you know of the side effects of smoking meth that has been cut with blue windex.

no it was not cut with windex it most likely was an unexperienced person making it.... windex is only used as a sanitation product

Maybe people should move on to psychedelics?
I think drugs should be legal anyways. It's our responsibility, not the governments.

Psychedelics can actually be used to break addictions.

I am watching a documentary on national geographic called Drugs Inc and was just mortified at how this drug has taken over the world, and then i open my localpaper to see 70 indictments from the drug, and i am in a small town known for its state perfect schools ect and meth is taking over. I am a scared mom who thinks i wanna move but ya know its everywhere you cant get away from it until the government stops the billions of dollars of mexican ice that comes across our borders.

it is dangerous to life . dear friends always keep away from it .

The United States Government needs to monitor those websites showing how to make and use this such thing. This also goes to making any other drug and other stuff such as bombs, etc...

Id rather eat a big old bug than ever take a stupid drug. Drags arent cool theyll mess you up at school...