Comments on: Trends in Drug Use http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:11:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: champs http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40497 champs Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:45:12 +0000 #comment-40497 I don't understand the attraction to meth -- all I gather is that it's a cheap, effective stimulant, but not a great high. Some insomniacs would KILL for the sleep these people are passing on.<br /> <br /> Jack Shafer at Slate has been debunking the <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2143681/">methamphetamine bogeyman hype</a>. Yes, it's widespread in rural areas and encourages crime, but addiction is far from instant or impossible to recover from. The users I've known don't struggle to stay clean, and never had the poster child look of scabby faces and "meth mouth". Just like every drug, the dangers are mostly overblown in the press. I don’t understand the attraction to meth — all I gather is that it’s a cheap, effective stimulant, but not a great high. Some insomniacs would KILL for the sleep these people are passing on.

Jack Shafer at Slate has been debunking the methamphetamine bogeyman hype. Yes, it’s widespread in rural areas and encourages crime, but addiction is far from instant or impossible to recover from. The users I’ve known don’t struggle to stay clean, and never had the poster child look of scabby faces and “meth mouth”. Just like every drug, the dangers are mostly overblown in the press.

]]> By: kwatt http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40484 kwatt Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:24:36 +0000 #comment-40484 From what I know, which is a lot, meth is the most addictive and destructive drug many people have ever seen. Did you know that meth users will attack their televisions and VCRs when they are high because they think the people inside are trying to get them? Ya. And they have kids - in the house! I've also heard a lot from rural people that the number of highschool age kids doing meth is staggering. It is everybit the problem people make it out to be. If anything, we're under estimating it. Meth is the driving factor of many identity thefts, including rashes of mailbox robberies.<br /> <br /> Don't do meth. From what I know, which is a lot, meth is the most addictive and destructive drug many people have ever seen. Did you know that meth users will attack their televisions and VCRs when they are high because they think the people inside are trying to get them? Ya. And they have kids – in the house! I’ve also heard a lot from rural people that the number of highschool age kids doing meth is staggering. It is everybit the problem people make it out to be. If anything, we’re under estimating it. Meth is the driving factor of many identity thefts, including rashes of mailbox robberies.

Don’t do meth.

]]> By: dude http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40448 dude Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:37:15 +0000 #comment-40448 Meth is bad news. It is pretty much game over for addicts. I don't understand what on earth could lead anyone to trying that sh*t, but I guess that is way I don't do it. Meth is bad news. It is pretty much game over for addicts. I don’t understand what on earth could lead anyone to trying that sh*t, but I guess that is way I don’t do it.

]]> By: msparber http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40422 msparber Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:21:11 +0000 #comment-40422 Methugarmin mouthugarmin. Methugarmin mouthugarmin.

]]> By: Reader http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40420 Reader Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:01:45 +0000 #comment-40420 <em>I usually make my meth with three parts sugar and two parts cinammon. I call it methugarmin.</em><br /> <br /> Sounds like enough of that could also have drastic affects on your teeth. I usually make my meth with three parts sugar and two parts cinammon. I call it methugarmin.

Sounds like enough of that could also have drastic affects on your teeth.

]]> By: champs http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40423 champs Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:01:25 +0000 #comment-40423 Misinformation is bad, but meth deserves to be demonized. I hadn't known anyone to fall into a self-destructive spiral of drugs, until someone I know got addicted to meth. The realities of it are that you'll go broke, and be lucky if you even get to keep your job. You'll lose weight -- maybe even enough that sitting becomes painful. There's nothing terribly social or glamorous about it, either. I don't recommend it, even for the adventurous. Misinformation is bad, but meth deserves to be demonized. I hadn’t known anyone to fall into a self-destructive spiral of drugs, until someone I know got addicted to meth. The realities of it are that you’ll go broke, and be lucky if you even get to keep your job. You’ll lose weight — maybe even enough that sitting becomes painful. There’s nothing terribly social or glamorous about it, either. I don’t recommend it, even for the adventurous.

]]> By: msparber http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40417 msparber Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:49:02 +0000 #comment-40417 I usually make my meth with three parts sugar and two parts cinammon. I call it methugarmin. I usually make my meth with three parts sugar and two parts cinammon. I call it methugarmin.

]]> By: Jim http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40415 Jim Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:33:12 +0000 #comment-40415 ...and turd comes through with the better joke. …and turd comes through with the better joke.

]]> By: turd http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40412 turd Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:09:23 +0000 #comment-40412 Anyone have a good recipe for meth handy? Anyone have a good recipe for meth handy?

]]> By: Reader http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/9310#comment-40410 Reader Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:02:12 +0000 #comment-40410 <em>I'm calling your bluff Reader. You didn't know.</em><br /> <br /> HA! It is like that card game BS. Except I have no concrete way to prove myself, except the fact that the City Pages is free and I knew that all along. I was just keeping Jim's joke going. <br /> <br /> Seriously though, any meth use is an issue to be dealt with. It really messes with people in physical and mental ways.<br /> I’m calling your bluff Reader. You didn’t know.

HA! It is like that card game BS. Except I have no concrete way to prove myself, except the fact that the City Pages is free and I knew that all along. I was just keeping Jim’s joke going.

Seriously though, any meth use is an issue to be dealt with. It really messes with people in physical and mental ways.

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