What kind of statistics are we looking at if Methamphetamine use continues to rise?
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Death rates would increase especially 15-40 year olds (highest number of people starting meth use now are in this age group)\n\nTraffic accidents & fatalities will increase\n\nLarger number of abandoned children or children forcibly taken from families and put in foster care (because most meth users are in child bearing age)\n\nHealthcare costs will rise - including dental (meth users destroy their teeth)\n\nMany others - these are just my initial guesses
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No, there's no coke in meth... a lot of times there is meth in coke but that is only because meth is more addictive and if a dealer puts a bit of meth in his coke it gets more people to come back to him more often...
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The Department of Health and Human Services released a survey estimating that child abuse and neglect in the United States nearly doubled during the seven years between 1986 and 1993. \n\nThe report estimated the number of abused and neglected children increased from 1.4 million in 1986, to over 2.8 million in 1993. The number of children who were seriously injured quadrupled from about 143,000 to nearly 570,000.\n\nOf course, this is an old study, and it is talking merely about numbers of reported victims.  Reports sometimes vary simply because trends may veer away from reporting when constant attention is not focused on the problem.\n\nNumbers alone cannot reflect the gravity of this problem.  Given this rate of increase the number possible today looks astronomical.  Remember that one child is a crisis of intolerable proportion.  Nobody should be truly at peace when anybody is hurting -- especially children.
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Sadly, yes.  \n\nI know someone who tried meth when she was 10.  An older friend gave it to her.  She only tried it once then, but was thinking about trying it again recently.  She's only 13 now.  Both her parents are alcoholics.\n\nMy mom had a patient who was around 13 years old and already had signs of liver damage from alcohol abuse.  She'd be drinking heavily since she was about 6 years old.  Her younger sibling was also abusing alcohol.  They lived with their grandmother who was too sick to go downstairs.\n\nKids as young as 10, and even younger, are recruited into gangs because they're too young to be tried as adults in court.  The courts set lower and lower ages to try kids as adults, and the gangs just recruit younger and younger kids.  They use those kids to traffic drugs, among other things.
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no  but they should do a sweep of your house to see how much meth you have been using.
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Those are anti-HIV medications aren't they?\n\nI'm not sure about the drug interactions - but I know that Meth makes HIV replicate at a higher rate than when you're not using meth.  Essentially, you're getting more infectious and making yourself sicker everytime you use meth.\n\nMeth also affects the same neurotransmitters in the brain that HIV does.  Many meth users with AIDS progress to dementia much sooner than non-meth using AIDS patients.\n\nIf you're not concerned about your own health, that's your own perrogitive.  I really hope you're protecting your partners though by wearing a condom, or making them wear one.
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maybe a meth addiction ?
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Methamphetamines are not controlled by the FDA anyone with a recipe can make meth.  Meth is way more potent than Ritalin.
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Try this link. Good Luck with all of your trials and tribulations!!\n\nhttp://www.meth-addiction.com/
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Bite the bullet.  There's meth in your system.
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slowly reduce the dose of meth you take each day, keep track of it. try to use a natural high instead of a drug induced one.
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In indicates a heavy user. Please note that there are many caveats to this and it depends on how the testing was done. \n\nSee the table below (cdf format):\n\nGroup,Self-ReportedDose,Number of Subjects,Cocaine (ng/mg),Reference\nDrug treatment,Heavy user,10,6.4-19.2,Cone et al. 1991\nDrug treatment,0.04-5 g/month,13,--,Baumgartner and Hill 1982\nDrug treatment,Unknown,7,0.6-6.4,Balabanova and Hill 1982\nDrug treatment,1-3 time/week,6,0-5.7,Harkey et al. 1991\nCoca chewers,100 mg/day,5,1.0-28.9,Henderson et al. 1992\nCoca chewers,100 mg/day,20,1.4-50.6,Möller et al. 1992\nControlled-dose study,0.6-4.2 mg/kg single dose,25,0.1-5,Henderson et al. 1993\nArrestees,Unknown,22,--,Reuschel and Smith 1991\nMothers,Occasional,3,0.03-1.2,Graham et al. 1989\nMothers,Frequent,13,0.6-29.1,Graham et al. 1989\nNeonates,Unknown,7,0.2-27.5,Graham et al. 1989\nInfants,Unknown,2,4.3-7.8,Graham et al. 1989\n\nGet high on life - Just Say No!
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Use mine..."How America's cocaine habit has ruined a a country."  The country is of course Columbia.  My first one was on Methamphetamine, which is a very hot topic right now, you could get lots of good info.
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I think pot usage was wider spread back then before the government dug in with all the anti-drug campaigning and subsidies to law enforcement.  The taboo of it has been softened too.  Coke was off the hook back then, really just getting started...but I don't think it's any worse than today, considering how strong the growing darker forces of the Columbian Drug Cartel have become.  So, all-in-all, the same...basing that on information from the media and the occasional creepy book or two covering the subject from Barnes & Noble....
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I just attended a lecture yesterday that talked about these very statistics.  Our crime rate is actually going down, but our rate of incarceration is going up.  This reflects the US' "war on crime" and "war on drugs" started in the late 70s, early 80s (Reagan, mostly).  It's because we are taking action and using incarceration as the solution.  To really properly analize these numbers, you also have to look at the crime rates of all these nations (we also score very poorly, there, so you still have a point).  The statistics for african-americans is even worse - something like 6000+ african-american inmates per 100,000.
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Methamphetamine is sold in Pharmacies under the name Desoxyn. That should be all the help you need.
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http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/factsht/methamph/#regionalobservations