12-04-2012, 02:20 PM
Nana,
My first exposure to meth (called ICE here) was while working at an emergency shelter for families in Oregon in the early 80s. Many of our clients were homeless due to bad taste in boyfriends who would spend the rent money on meth. At that time it was confined for the most part to the I-5 corridor, but I warned my mother who was a judge in rural Indiana that it was coming her way. By the time she retired in the 90s meth was all over her county, so I wouldn't assume it wasn't in your town in Oregon too. Small town users often have to hide it a little better, but if your neighbor is out weed eating after midnight, or goes out and revs their truck motor for 30 minutes at 2 in the morning, and then goes back inside to scream at the wife for a few hours, they are probably doing meth. Taking every small appliance in the house apart is a sure sign too.
There is an amazing movie titled Spun that sums up the whole meth lifestyle, the director/producer was hired to drive for a meth cook for a few weeks while still a student, he turned the experience into a movie that really captures the psychotic mindset of meth heads.
Carol
My first exposure to meth (called ICE here) was while working at an emergency shelter for families in Oregon in the early 80s. Many of our clients were homeless due to bad taste in boyfriends who would spend the rent money on meth. At that time it was confined for the most part to the I-5 corridor, but I warned my mother who was a judge in rural Indiana that it was coming her way. By the time she retired in the 90s meth was all over her county, so I wouldn't assume it wasn't in your town in Oregon too. Small town users often have to hide it a little better, but if your neighbor is out weed eating after midnight, or goes out and revs their truck motor for 30 minutes at 2 in the morning, and then goes back inside to scream at the wife for a few hours, they are probably doing meth. Taking every small appliance in the house apart is a sure sign too.
There is an amazing movie titled Spun that sums up the whole meth lifestyle, the director/producer was hired to drive for a meth cook for a few weeks while still a student, he turned the experience into a movie that really captures the psychotic mindset of meth heads.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb