Powdered and tablet forms of Meth have been swallowed, in order to be stimulated and stay awake for long periods of time. It was used this way by truck drivers and motorcycle gangs to stay awake and get a high. They did develop the brain damage and the addiction, but it was a slower effect. Many of them recovered when they totally changed their lives to other jobs and other friends. But they still have permanent brain damaged and can’t remember things. Powdered Meth can also be slipped into someone’s drink at a party, so be careful who your friends are!

Other drug users will use Powdered Meth. It’s rubbed on the gums, or snorted into the nose to get high. This is a much more rapidly brain damaging / brain reprogramming effect. Cocaine users and addicts are used to snorting cocaine up their nose to get high. If someone puts Meth in their cocaine, or tells them a Meth high lasts longer, they will quickly get addicted to the Meth. Recreational cocaine users who think they can “control” their cocaine habits, turn into tweaking zombies once Meth grabs hold of them. They lose their jobs, all their decent friends, and turn into drug crazed zombies stealing and going in and out of jail. Often times the cocaine user-turned Meth addict will eventually kill themselves. This is what happened to Jim, the 24 year old brother of Mary F. Holley, M.D. Much of the brain science material was put together by Dr. Holley in her book for addicts called Power Over Addiction, published by Mother’s Against Methamphetamine, www.mamasite.net

With snorting, powdered Meth can reprogram the brain and quickly destroy the body and soul of experienced drug users. As many addiction-help websites call it, Meth is “the Devil’s drug.”

Crystal…It Rhymes with Pistol

Then there is the most dangerous, the most suicidal, way to use Meth. Smoking the Crystal form of Meth.

Pull the trigger “once” with either, and Your Life’s Over. Use these once, and the person who liked movies, games, sports, friends, etc, … is gone.

Crystal Meth reprograms the brain to want only one thing, Meth.
Crystal Meth robs you of the things you once liked to do.
Bicycling? Nope, sold the bike for Meth.
TV? Nope, can’t enjoy it anymore, only Meth.

Crystal meth can look like dirty ice, discolored with whatever toxic chemicals it was made with. Smoking Crystal Meth, just one time, addicted 13 year old Angela of Des Moines, Iowa. After her suicide, her tragic story was in the Des Moines Register newspaper. Angela was an honor student who wanted to become a Pediatrician. When older friends that she trusted, opened up a ball of aluminum foil and heated it with a lighter, Angela’s life was taken, that very night. Those friends were her “murderers”, as it turned out.

The Meth reprogrammed her brain and she was craving Meth uncontrollably. She used to write in her diary that no matter how hard she tried, no matter how hard she prayed, she couldn’t stop. She wrote that her brain felt “tangled” by the Meth, and that she would do “anything to get my drugs.” In and out of juvenile hall, and drug treatment programs that were totally inadequate, one of her last entries before Angela shot herself at age 15, was : “I can’t beat it.”