Ice Age

It's cheap, highly addictive and ultra-powerful. "Ice", or crystal methamphetamine, is now more popular than heroin. It plays havoc with the minds and the bodies of addicts, filling emergency wards with dangerous, psychotic patients. But little is known about the long term effects of the drug or even how to treat the addiction. And health services are not prepared for the chaos ice has just started to unleash. This week's documentary reports on the hidden epidemic.

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• Documentary

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• Ice
• Age
• crystal
• meth
• methamphetamine
• drug
• addict
• epidemic
• australie
• journeyman
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[TheCanadiangirl95]

THESE are the kinds of videos health teachers need to show, not stupid non realistic reenactments to make it seem bad but not quite show the true effects of drugs.

[mathewmassacre]

I'd rather stick to weed

[furpoh]

Ain't it amazing how reality tends to take the allure away from drugs. I mean, after all these are the people who really use the junk, to escape from reality. I also don't believe in the theory, "don't knock it until you've tried it". I don't need to go for a week or two on "ice" to determine how bad it actually is ! I mean damn!! Don't we have enough problems in life??

[Mentalplix]

@sonjafortuna No, she was talking about giving the baby away once it was born.

[sandraand6690]

oops typo's Ground

[sandraand6690]

Aren't all drugs at one point or another derived from plants, and fungi.

Heroin, Cocaine/Crack, Marijuana and Antibiotics? I already know the answer to my question, but don't understand the illogical reasoning some user use, when making excuses in repect to their choice of recreational drugs... If you like it then own up to it and say you like it, but please, please leave the " it's a plant and it grows from the grown, it's a tree, it's real medicine, bullshit out of the equation." (Drugs)

[sandraand6690]

Aside from the filthy apartments,/ housekeeping and the addicts on the couch, it's a nice apartment..

[telemetry9]

we all started as children once.

someone once said: "never judge those less fortunate than you - they weren't or aren't as privileged as you."

It's easy to pick on vulnerable people. You have no idea the kind of road these people have travelled or what their lives were like as children and young adults.

So to all the borderline fascists wanting to make vulnerable people live on the streets by removing their welfare. I'd remind you that it is our society that created them.

[telemetry9]

yeh - because everyone just isn't as hard working or as brilliant as you.

picking on vulnerable people doesn't say a great deal about you as a person.

[shawondemand]

@0509killer

it goes from

drinking milk ->>soda->>meth

not

drinking milk ->>soda->>weed-->>meth