meth--before and after pics

[rainbabies]

scary shizz. check out this site.

http://2stopmeth.org/main.php?pg=gallery

Now I know dh isn't exaggerating when he tells me about his 30-40 yo meth patients who look 70.

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[Lo]

people are crazy...DF used to tell me about his New Vision (drug rehab program at St. Francis in Chicago) patients and i never really understood till now ::

[DCJenn]

Well, most people don't wake up and say, "you know, today I'd like to ruin everything about my life."

I can tell you a few commonalities of the people we see (we're the 'public methadone clinic so we don't get the Rush Limbaugh's, we get the dregs of society).

1) Started smoking pot/cigarettes by age ten.
2) Usually abused, at the minimum physically, more than likely sexually, too
3) Poor parents or parent who worked at least two jobs.
4) First generation immigrant children
5) High school drop-outs. I'd guess 50% get a GED eventually.

It's pathetic because SO many issues in society are in this nasty revolving circle.

Meth is an extremely diffficult addition to treat. There's no methadone for Meth.

Jenn

[Laker]

They all lost weight. :!

unbelievable.

How awful...

I just found this post! WOW. Holy SHI**. I can't believe these people.... It is sad that people fall into that blackhole..
scary....

[DCJenn]

Actually, the saddest part is that even if they want to attempt to climb out of that black hole

1) addiction treatment is just catching up with meth

2) it is unbelievably difficult to treat. A girl who was in my brother wedding got hooked up with crystal meth and ended up in jail, and lost everything- husband (a cop!) and her two kids. and got out and did it again. I think she's been through various treatments seven or more times. and that's only because she has money- imagine if she didn't!. It's truly worse than heroin or nicotine.

3) It's cheap to make and it's cheap to buy and that remains everso enticing. Why buy $100 bucks worth of heroin a day when you don't have to?

Jenn

[Momo]

I have heard it described as the "white man's crack"...honestly I didn't recall the crack addicts and the first decade of that epidemic getting this much attention.

[DCJenn]

honestly I didn't recall the crack addicts and the first decade of that epidemic getting this much attention.

Interesting, huh?

and we all know that had the money been invested in research in the "Gay Man's Disease" when it was first discovered, perhaps we'd have a cure or at least some more progress.

although, in defense of the Man, Meth manufacturing is significantly more dangerous to the general population than crack. Meth houses explode with alarming regularity and once meth has been cooked, the entire house becomes a hazmat situation.

Jenn

[diggitydot]

I think most of those mugshots are from Multnomah County jails in Portland, OR. They did a whole huge article in the Oregonian several years ago.

Have you all seen that Frontline special about meth? It was extremely interesting and pretty thorough. Here's the link with the info. They still reshow it occasionally. Well worth watching.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/

[Momo]

Have you all seen that Frontline special about meth? It was extremely interesting and pretty thorough. Here's the link with the info. They still reshow it occasionally. Well worth watching.

This is what i was just getting ready to post.