Crystal Methamphetamine Addiction is largely similar to the addiction of amphetamines and has horrible effects on central Nervous System of body. This article elaborates the Crystal Meth Effects in detail. Have a look...
Crystal methamphetamine
Crystal methamphetamines are drugs with high potential of violence, they are also called „speed", and they stimulate the central nervous system. They belong to the amphetamines family. Just like cocaine, they are strong, exciting drugs, which lead to a series of adverse reactions, and their effect is longer lasting than the effect of cocaine.
History
Discovered by a Japanese chemist in 1919, methamphetamine was used during the second world war in order to keep the troops awoken and to energize workers in factories. Nowadays it is prescribed carefullt for the cure of some diseasas, and in some countries it is a legal medicine.
As drug it is taken under the form of powder, as inhalation or injected in watery dilution. apoasa. Amphetamine addicts become aggressive and psychotic, they lose weight, until they become skiny.
While smoking or injecting them, they get to the brain the most quickly. Thus crystal methamphetamine addicts get the condition they want very quickly and with maximum of intensity, and when they recover from this condition they want it back desperately.
How does methamphethamine affect you?
If the consumer takes small doses, he or she will feel energetic, faster, more confident, stronger. In time, these effects get loose and you need a greater dose in order to get the euphoric effects that you want.
You may become nervous and unpredictable, calm and friendly for a moment, than furous and threatening.Some of the addicts may get habits like mounting and demounting theings or pecking imaginary pimples.
After a few days when they sleep and eat very little, they become too nervous and because they don’t have the drug, they become depressed, lethargic, and very sleepy, then they fall asleep for a long time.
Anyway, depression starts again when you get up, and it can last even a few days, when the danger of suicide is great.
If the consumption is considerable, and it lasts a long time, you may develop a kind of psychosis with paranoid behavior. You may hear voies or you may have strange illusions, for example that people talk about you or somebody is following you. Crystal methamphetamines create a panic condition and an acute psychotic condition, which is extremely dangerous as it may lead to extremely violent behavior.
This psychotic condition sometimes persists days after the last dose, there are many reports about a constant psycosis, the addict becoming inactive for weeks, sometimes for years. In this case psychiatrists say that the drug has activated a psychic disease which existed previously
Here are some consequences of methamphetamine addiction
1. lack of appetite
2. fever
3. diarrhea
4. skin infections because of the struggle with imaginary pimples
5. depression
6. anxiety
If blood pressure increases because of the veines constriction, you may have headaches, pains in the chest, cerebral accidents. Brain cells will be damaged forever, because of the damage of little veins which irrigate the brain.
Pregnant women may give birth to their child earlier and the baby will be underweight, with possible neurological problems, lethargic.
Crystal metamphetamine addiction presents some symptoms which can be easily confounded with symptoms of a stressful teenager life. If your child is depressed, or he or she has other frequent health problems, a visit to the psychologist should be beneficial, because one of the causes might be crystal metamphetamine addiction, and psychologists have the reputation to save teenagers lives.
The key of this problem is change; it is important to monitor any change of physical signs, of the personality, attitude or behavior.
Physical effects of crystal metamphetamine
1. changing of eating habits
2. lack of movement coordination
3. insomnia, unusual laziness
4. red, teary eyes, blank stare
5. wet, cold, shaking hands
6. red or pale face
7. specific methamphetamine smell
8. very active, excessively talkative
9. flu symptoms
10. sting traces on arms and legs
11. nausea, sweat
12. legs or head shaking
13. irregular heart rhythm
Behavioral effects of crystal methamphetamine addiction
1. attitude change, without any apparent reason.
2. avoiding old friends, the methamphetamine addict refuses to talk about new friends as they are addict too.
3. change of activities, hobbies.
4. low school or work performance; they are often late for school or work, or they even abandon them.
5. changing behavior at home, they are not interested anymore in their family or family activities.
6. they can’t focus, they forget things and they are absent minded.
7. they lack motivation in general, energy or self esteem.
8. they are very angry, even aggressive.
9. they lack orientation.
10. their become extremely mysterious.
11. they may have car accidents.
12. they are not honest anymore.
13. they need money, so that they steal it from home or take things from home in order to sell them for drugs.
14. paranoia
Each drug has specific effects and every country needs severe law concerning drug trade and drug consumption.
