Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Meth Addiction


Meth is a drug that when started is almost guaranteed to be addicted to. It can cause stress, less sleep, and engage in high risk sexual activity. When used in very high doses it causes the heart rate to increase and body temperatures to rise to dangerous levels. Also it causes the user to be paranoid, anxious, and and exhibit very bizarre behavior. It can also lead to death. If a user stops doing meth the body will experience a numbness because the drug burned out the pleasure chemicals. Even if you stop using you are likely to relapse once out of rehab, so you will never stop using meth. This drug can be smoked, snorted, or injected and is in crystal form known as ice or glass. Using this drug causes loss of weight and will most likely ruin your life. Crystal meth is a street drug that both girls and boys use. Girls use mostly for weight loss. Some long term effects are heart attacks, hallucinations, obsessive scratching, seizures, sensations of bugs crawling under your skin, and many more. People think that using this drug will make them look better or feel more pleasure but in reality it destroys your nervous system and can even cause you to die. There are other solutions to looking better that are healthy for you such as exercising and eating better foods and these things won't kill you or damage you.

Split Personalities

Twisted excursions of the mind
Denote something of a different kind
A hidden self lost within
Free to roam
Unconscious of sin
How does one escape themselves
When deep within
Lies someone else
A stranger
Yet a part of you
Another being, which makes you two
Behind the dark
I hear your cries
Beyond it all
I hear your call
Torn between my frame of mind
I don't know where to turn it all
Whats more than lonely
But an empty space
An unknown indifference
Creates a void
Strive to find
Something of a different kind
Who am I
But not me
Am I you
Is there we
Maybe to discover you
First I must discover me!
-Leonie Isaacs
lisaacs.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/
In the book Glass by Ellen Hopkins Kristina is a nice girl with a baby named Hunter but her other personality "Bree" causes her to be addicted to Crystal Meth and is much more controlling. Bree starts to not like Kristina anymore so Kristina has a hard time controlling the power of Bree. She soons starts to neglect her baby Hunter and cannot stop getting high. It soon starts to become a need for her such as she cant go a day without doing it therefore she doesnt sleep at night well. Doing drugs can cause you to have stress, not sleep, and lose lots of weight making you have health issues. Also, it causes you to start pushing away from your family and be more demanding just like Bree. Her spilt personality was developed by being exposed to the drug and then becoming addicted to it. Bree talkes to her in her head while she is being Kristina causing her to be confused and make bad decisions. This disorder can be very hard to control and sometimes you don't know when you are the other person. This is also known as dissociative identity disorder. It can not be diagnosed so they have interviews and ask questions looking for the symptoms. Some symptoms are acting two different ways, consfusion, and many others.

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