Click the pics and watch the videos of Brandon's, Sara's and Beth's testimonials.
Real stories related to the devastation of meth abuse.
Brandon is 22 years old.
Meth took away all he strived for.
Brandon started using drugs
when he was 15 years old.
Sara is 23 years old.
Sara has psychological
problems and sought refuge in
meth and alcohol.
Matt, who died as a result
of violence related to meth.
Testimonial by his sister Beth.
Street Names:
Chalk, Crank, Croak, Crypto, Crystal, Fire, Glass, Meth, Tweek, White Cross.
Meth is a crystal-like powdered substance that sometimes comes in large rock-like chunks.
When the powder flakes off the rock, the shards look like glass, which is another nickname for meth.
Meth is usually white or slightly yellow, depending on the purity. Methamphetamines can be taken orally, injected, snorted, or smoked.
Know the Facts:
Meth is highly addictive, and its users can develop tolerance very quickly, needing larger and larger amounts to get high.
Some users forego food and sleep and take more meth every few hours for days on end, binging until they run out of the drug
and consequently numbing the effects of withdrawal with alcohol or other depressants.
Chronic users can develop paranoia, hallucinations, and obsessive repetitive behavior such as compulsively cleaning, grooming,
or disassembling and assembling objects.
Users also develop delusions of parasites or insects crawling under
the skin and can obsessively scratch to get rid of these imaginary insects.
SEE GRAPHIC PHOTOS BELOW.
Immediate Effects:
Possible immediate effects can include increased wakefulness and insomnia, decreased appetite, irritability/aggression, anxiety, nervousness, convulsions, strokes, and heart attack.
Long-Term Effects:
Long-term use or high dosages can bring on full-blown toxic psychosis, which is often exhibited as violent, aggressive behavior. This violent, aggressive behavior is usually
coupled with extreme paranoia. Users have a short life span, and once the body has been weakened by the abuse, a stroke or heart attack is the inevitable fate.
Chemicals Used to Make Methamphetamine:
These are some of the ingredients of methamphetamines and what people are putting into their bodies.
Please read this poem.
This was written by a young girl who was in jail for drug charges and was addicted to meth.
She wrote this while in jail. As you will soon read, she fully grasped the horrors of the drug, as she tells in this simple yet profound poem.
She was released from jail, but, true to her story, the drug owned her. They found her dead not long after, with the needle still in her arm.
Methamphetamines destroy the mind and body. Jail photos show only a hint of the drug's devastation.
Meth eats away at brain tissue, increases blood pressure, accelerates heart rate, creates psychosis, and causes the body to overheat.
Teeth fall out. The body stops craving food and only wants the drug.
Please visit our Memorial Wall for those who died from Drugs.
Please read about Michael David Husser's struggle with drug abuse.
Meth took his life and his legacy is to warn young people that early experimentation can lead to addiction and eventually death.
Meth steals lives nationwide!
This page is dedicated to Michael Husser and Matt Durand.
