Meth Educational Video

Meth Educational Video. Public Service Advertisement courtesy of Placer County, California. If you or someone you know needs help with methamphetamine problems, you can call the Placer County toll-free number: 1-888-886-5401. In the Auburn area, call 530-886-2926. In the South Placer area, call: 916-787-8944. Like most of California, meth use is widespread in Placer County. An estimated 85 percent to 90 percent of the county's child welfare cases can be related to parental substance abuse and meth is most often the drug of choice. About 73 percent of local meth users began using this drug prior to age 22. Meth is a white, odorless, and bitter-tasting crystalline powder, readily soluble in water or alcohol. It comes in many forms and can be smoked, snorted, injected or orally ingested. Meth is readily available and inexpensive with potent neurological effects that can cause addiction the first time it is used. Meth use costs everyone due to increased medical care costs, lost productivity, increased crime, family devastation and loss of community. Meth is highly addictive. Its chemical effects on the brain trick the body into believing it has unlimited energy. Meth reduces the level of chemicals produced by the brain that cause feelings of pleasure. When a user stops taking meth, the brain is unable to function normally for a period of days, weeks or even months. Methamphetamine is a very addictive stimulant drug that affects the central nervous system. It is a Schedule II stimulant, which means it has a high potential for abuse and is available only through a prescription that cannot be refilled. However, its medical uses are limited and the doses prescribed are much lower than those typically abused. Most of the methamphetamine abused in this country comes from foreign or domestic superlabs, although it can also be made in small, illegal laboratories, where its production endangers the people in the labs, neighbors, and the environment. Methamphetamine is a white, odorless, bitter-tasting crystalline powder that easily dissolves in water or alcohol and is taken orally, intranasally (snorting the powder), by needle injection, or by smoking. Methamphetamine increases the release of very high levels of the brain chemical dopamine, which is involved in motivation, the experience of pleasure, and motor function, and is a common mechanism of action for most drugs of abuse. Chronic methamphetamine abuse significantly changes how the brain functions. Noninvasive human brain imaging studies have shown alterations in the activity of the dopamine system that are associated with reduced motor performance and impaired verbal learning. Recent studies in chronic methamphetamine abusers have also revealed severe structural and functional changes in areas of the brain associated with emotion and memory, which may account for many of the emotional and cognitive problems observed in chronic methamphetamine abusers. Long-term methamphetamine abuse can also lead to addiction—a chronic, relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, and accompanied by chemical and molecular changes in the brain. Some of these changes persist long after methamphetamine abuse is stopped, and some reverse after sustained periods of abstinence (e.g., 2 years). Taking even small amounts of methamphetamine can result in increased wakefulness, increased physical activity, decreased appetite, increased respiration, rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, increased blood pressure, and hyperthermia. Long-term methamphetamine abuse has many negative consequences, including extreme weight loss, severe dental problems, anxiety, confusion, insomnia, mood disturbances, and violent behavior. Chronic methamphetamine abusers can also display a number of psychotic features, including paranoia, visual and auditory hallucinations, and delusions (for example, the sensation of insects creeping under the skin).

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[pissant911]

Holy shit i was just over at a friends house and a couple of the people over there pulled out meth and started smoking for like their 4th time ever, but ive never seen it before, and they kept trying to pass it to me...I kept turning them down and left 2 min in ... but i did get to smoke a blunt... but damn that was some crazy shit... they said only try it once and if you dont like it your done... but i didnt do it...i just thought i would share that with youtube... crazy thursday night!..

[rosaryfilms]

@pissant911 - you made a wise decision. Thanks for sharing...

[yanktonfeather]

Meth took my life for 3 years! I lost everything. My daughter, my family, my friends, my money, my honesty, my pride, my looks, everything! And what fucks me up is that i didn't even care! If i had meth, life was good. It took 4 times in jail to finally make me see i was never gonna make it livin the tweak life! I left everyone and everything that had to do with tweak, moved my ass 800 hundred miles away, and started life over! I have been clean for a year in 2 days! It was hard but worth it!!!

[rosaryfilms]

@yanktonfeather - thank you for sharing your experiences -- your experiences will help others to avoid meth. regards...

[stewie919]

@yanktonfeather Well done! I'm so happy I never tried anything like that. I've experimented with weed & even tried coke a few times, but have also stopped taking drugs for well over 3 years now. Drugs are stupid and waste your life. I could have done much better in school and just been a much better overall person if I'd not hung out with the wrong crowd then, but you live and learn. Your story is great and inspirational, best of luck to you

[rosaryfilms]

@stewie919  - thank you for your comments! regards...

[matthewgroen]

that doctor has some creepy eyes @ around two minutes in

[Gudjon1000]

@pissant911 if you see those people again and they are still on meth do your best to convince tehm to stop

[Mongodelight]

keep on smoking weed thats no drug if you compare it to meth

[OnWingsOfGrace]

Maybe there's a lot of meth use where I live. There's enough mindless zombies around - I count a new one every day.

[xDUBK4Tx]

STICK TO WEED!

[xDUBK4Tx]

@pissant911 yeah lol woulda done the same, but i dont have friends like that XD and whos ^that guy^? saying thanks for sharing like its some aa meeting XD

[GanjaEclectus]

SLOOT!

[LighterOfDewbies]

@pissant911 Where are they now, my friend. Where are they now

[ventilator98]

This is the saddest drug video i have ever seen