Methamphetamine Addiction
Crystal Meth
According to myfoxatlanta.com, a high school teacher in Haralson County, Georgia was arrested on March 30, 2010, for operating a meth lab inside her home. Police were at the home to serve a warrant to someone they suspected to be inside the home. Upon their arrival, the police noticed a strong chemical odor when the door was opened to the home. Investigators found a make-shift meth lab in operation.
It is disturbing enough to any community to have someone arrested for operating a meth lab inside of a home, much less someone who works with children every day.
Neighbors reported people coming and going at all hours of the night. Since methamphetamine is a stimulant that keeps those abusing the drug awake for days and weeks at a time (dependent on the amount used) it is no wonder that neighbors witnessed such erratic behavior coming from the house next door.
Addiction has no respect. School teachers, lawyers, doctors, politicians all succumb to the power that it possesses.
Methamphetamine continues to increase in popularity and has become more prevalent throughout Georgia, leading to a significant number of arrests and seizures throughout the state. This trend is particularly true in the Atlanta, Dalton, and Gainesville metropolitan areas. Especially alarming are indications that the number of clandestine methamphetamine laboratories in Georgia has increased drastically. There has also been an increase in the availability of ICE, in the Atlanta metropolitan area along with locally produced methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is produced in clandestine laboratories located within the state.
Meth – Methamphetamine is an addictive stimulant drug that strongly activates certain systems in the brain. Methamphetamine is closely related chemically to amphetamine, but the central nervous system effects of methamphetamine are greater. Both drugs have some medical uses, primarily in the treatment of obesity, but their therapeutic use is limited.
Methamphetamine is taken orally or intranasally (snorting the powder), by intravenous injection, and by smoking. Immediately after smoking or intravenous injection, the methamphetamine user experiences an intense sensation, called a “rush” or “flash,” that lasts only a few minutes and is described as extremely pleasurable. Oral or intranasal use produces euphoria – a high, but not a rush. Users may become addicted quickly, and use it with increasing frequency and in increasing doses.
The central nervous system (CNS) actions that result from taking even small amounts of methamphetamine include increased wakefulness, increased physical activity, decreased appetite, increased respiration, hyperthermia, and euphoria. Other CNS effects include irritability, insomnia, confusion, tremors, convulsions, anxiety, paranoia, and aggressiveness. Hypothermia and convulsions can result in death.
