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Methaphetamine

Street Names:
Chalk, Crank, Croak, Crypto, Crystal, Fire, Glass, Meth, Tweek, White Cross.

Methaphetamine is a crystal-like powdered substance that sometimes comes in large rock-like chunks.
When the powder flakes off the rock, the shards look like glass, which is another nickname for meth.
Methaphetamine is usually white or slightly yellow, depending on the purity. Methamphetamines can be taken orally, injected, snorted, or smoked.


Know the Facts:
Methaphetamine is highly addictive, and its users can develop tolerance very quickly, needing larger and larger amounts to get high.

Some users forego food and sleep and take more meth every few hours for days on end, binging until they run out of the drug and consequently numbing the effects of withdrawal with alcohol or other depressants.

Chronic users can develop paranoia, hallucinations, and obsessive repetitive behavior such as compulsively cleaning, grooming, or disassembling and assembling objects.

Users also develop delusions of parasites or insects crawling under the skin and can obsessively scratch to get rid of these imaginary insects. Immediate Effects:
Possible immediate effects can include increased wakefulness and insomnia, decreased appetite, irritability/aggression, anxiety, nervousness, convulsions, strokes, and heart attack.

Long-Term Effects:
Long-term use or high dosages can bring on full-blown toxic psychosis, which is often exhibited as violent, aggressive behavior.

This violent, aggressive behavior is usually coupled with extreme paranoia. Users have a short life span, and once the body has been weakened by the abuse, a stroke or heart attack is the inevitable fate.

These are the chemicals used to make Methamphetamine:
Alcohol (Isopropyl or rubbing alcohol), Toluene (brake cleaner), Ether (engine starter), Sulfuric Acid (drain cleaner),

Red Phosphorus (matches/road flares), Salt (table/rock), Iodine (teat dip or flakes/crystal), Lithium (batteries), Trichloroethane (gun scrubber), MSM (cutting agent), Sodium Metal, Methanol/Alcohol (gasoline additives), Muriatic Acid, Anhydrous Ammonia (farm fertilizer), Sodium Hydroxide (lye), Pseudoephedrine (cold tablets), Ephedrine (cold tablets), Acetone, and Cat Litter.

Please read this poem.
This was written by a young girl who was in jail for drug charges and was addicted to meth.

She wrote this while in jail. As you will soon read, she fully grasped the horrors of the drug, as she tells in this simple yet profound poem.
She was released from jail, but, true to her story, the drug owned her. They found her dead not long after, with the needle still in her arm.







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