Creepy Pics Of Before & After Meth/Ice Users

[Easygoing]

The DEA should focus on this stuff and leave cannabis alone. A shame to see a healing herb lumped as a illegal drug along with ice.

[HiloHaole]

The pictures would be worse if their teeth were pictured also. I have a close friend that's a pharmacist. He says the teeth start rotting in a very short time after beginning meth.

[lquade]

oh yeah, the teeth... we have seen 20 year old kids with every tooth in the mouth rotted down to the gum lines.. they come in for pain meds with their mom and she says "are they drinking too much pepsi?" we try to give her the news and she freaks and says my kid doesnt do drugs and that is just acne.... yeah right...it is hard to tell someone in their twenties they need dentures...

[sansei]

Users are not the only thing trashed by Meth. Meth labs usually have to be treated as toxic waste sites when they are discovered.

[Jeffhale]

We had a kid, his wife, and 6 plus kids living across the street from us back before 1991 and before we moved to our current house.

These photographs depict how he and his wifed looked every month. They were on welfare, 'welfare for drugs' basically. At the beginning of every month a Harley Davidson would drive up, on different days, we expected; making deliveries. Then the traffic would begin for a week or so, Traffic dwindled until Harley showed up again. Then slight traffic. By the second week, traffic slowed or stopped. They'd resemble these people by this time. In the next week we'd observe frustrations from them. And then surprising during the last, 4th week we'd begin to see them more often. Except this was their recovery week. They'd start to gain weight again, face would clear up and by all outward appearances seem like a normal "welfare family". not that there's anything normal about appearing like a welfare family.

It was pretty sad, each month, month after month for a few years they would go threw this cycle. I knew his parents, bothers sisters and actually, of them all, he was the best person. I talked with the police about this once, After i called because of gun shots emanating from his yard, (another story about one of his "Pals" but I offered; if they could give me some guaranties about sending him into a rehabilitation center I might help catch him, The police had a knick name for him, "Tricky Ricky" Anyways, they would not offer any assistance what so ever. However, they caught him for something a few months later. We decided to up move away before he came back, which we did.. A few years later he came up to me, wanted to rent an apartment. I was like, yeah, right, I am gonna rent to a speed freak, Rick? Right? He said he was off the drugs for some time. However, I couldn't believe him, regardless, he had no financial qualifications, but worst was as some people tell me. Even after you quit doing this trash, your personality changes, behavior modifies, and you will appear to be high on that junk for years to come..

That was another reason i insisted to Rick, "dude, you're on that crap right now,, for-get-about-it." I've seen a lot of, otherwise would be, decent people ruin their lives from this crap.

[Carolann R]

I never did meth but it has touched my life in a very close way. Sometimes I am surprised at the reaction when people find out how it ravages a body. Then I remember that there are people who haven't had exposure to it except for the media.

These pictures are not new, but I can tell you that they scare the crap outta me everytime I see them 'cause these people turn into the walking dead, and are zombies in every way. There IS a way out of drug hell, but the percentage of success is very small, sadly.

My biggest lesson was to learn not to enable them, but to use tough love and cut off the lifelines so they would be forced to help themselves (hopefully)...

One Day At A Time.

Carrie

"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it." Bob Newhart

[scuba_man7]

This is spreading through the high schools of the desert southwest like wildfire. The dental clinic where my wife works sees one or two new 14 year olds every week - girls mostly, for some odd reason - who will have dentures before they get their driver's license.

This stuff is poison. And it does make the war on cannabis look really stupid. This is the stuff to target...




Edited by - scuba_man7 on 07/19/2007 07:29:48

[LeeE]

My wife and I were in Holland a few years ago. It seems the Dutch have little real street drug problems, especially when compared with us.

I checked their drug stats and saw that they have much lower rates of overdose, much lower rates of hard drug use and their students consistently score in the highest percentile worldwide.

How did the Dutch solve their "drug problems"? Anyone think that perhaps their nations drug laws and policies have anything to do with it?

Is it possible that our country's drug policies could be creating the conditions which result in our society being used as a dumping ground for artificially lucrative "prohibited" substances?

They say the Prohibition Enhanced Value of street drugs in over One Trillion Dollars a year.

Who is laundering all that drug money anyways? Must be some awful big financial institutions, given the amount of money "Prohibition" generates.

Could Catherine Austin Fitts, (former Undersecretary of HUD and investment banker with Dillon Reed be right?

Just asking...

Aloha,
Lee
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[anela1111]

the problem with this drug is the minute u take it it begins to destroy a certain part of your brain the part that contains your conscious so these people end up not having one and they don't even realize they are addicted.