Debunking Crystal Meth Myths | The War on Drugs
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- Around 500,000 people in California are addicted to methamphetamine. Out of a population of almost 40 million, that’s one in every 200 people. But this goes way beyond the US: Meth is raging across Mexico, the Philippines and South-East Asia too.
Meth is also one of the most misunderstood and unfairly stigmatized of all the illegal drugs. Here we pick apart crystal meth fact from fiction and discover how the War on Drugs has created a world on speed.
In The War On Drugs, we examine the social implications of prohibition worldwide. Any attempt to shut down the trade in drugs such as heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine or weed invariably sets off a chain of events that just makes things worse, leaving a trail of death, illness, violence, slavery, addiction, crime and inequality across the globe.
Everyone loses - except, in a weird kind of way, the drugs themselves.
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meth doesnt make your teeth fall out? and its just result of neglect?
you are SO fucking wrong.. beyond wrong.
here in Switzerland nobody has a bad mouth because of meth. we have the good stuff ^^
@VICE BRING BACK HAMILTON'S PHARMACOPEIA PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE!🙏🏼 you already had the greatest show on drugs ever- showing numerous sides of the issue that was EXTREMELY informative and entertaining. you don't have to reinvent the wheel. just give Hamilton Morris whatever he wants. Take my money please🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hell yeah! Meth isn’t so bad for you! I may have to try
@@sandsphere I’ve been take math since 13 years old... untill 31 now 36.. my teeth look so good ( after take it you need to brush ) and honestly I’ve been normal if i take it... 😂...
I was addicted to meth from the age 16 until age 30. I have all my teeth, my skin isn’t riddled with holes and sores but, it really f’d me up physically because I wasn’t taking care of myself , I was picking at my skin, not eating, not sleeping, etc & it took me about 2 years after I got clean to get back to normal physically. I am happy to be 8 years clean today
**update**
I’ve had a few think I’m a bot, or full of crap but I’m real & so is my story. I want to clarify that I am not without any damage to my body from my years in addiction, that would be foolish to claim. I was just simply saying that in MY experience that I am thankful I still have my teeth & my scars from picking, etc have mostly faded. I am aware that I am highly privileged in that regard because so many have completely destroyed their bodies.
If you ever have kids tell them between right and wrong.
@Alpha Centauri I agree
@@renegaderebel2223 I actually have 2 boys 18 & 21 and I have been VERY transparent with them about my addiction. They have heard just exactly what drugs made me like & what they made me do.
Congrats on moving past your addiction. Hope you're better now :)
@@mauriciofuentes7638 thank you!!! I am definitely doing better!! 8 years clean now & doing good things with my life, also sharing my story whenever the moment arises ☺️
I used to shoot meth , and see helicopters chasing me.. but I literally moved out of Tucson Arizona to Florida change my life. I am 17 days away from a year sober!!
I was homeless on the south side throughout high school, reason I was homeless is because of the drugs man
Where in Phoenix man I was in the same boat but my poison was heroin I moved from Phoenix to Florida also and changed my life completely been clean now for 6 years.
So you went from a crazy place to a batshit insane place
@@sajidurrahman8018 yeah fam
You trip ?
Let me guess Benson HWY?lol
Crystal meth almost ruined my life. Lost all my friends, stole from my parents, didn't sleep, my skin got really fucked and dehydrated.
Luckily I drowned myself in weed and alcohol for a year to get off it.
I've left weed in the dust and I'm drinking a lot less now.
I'm left with paranoia problems and I'm really anti social.
Ever been to a psychiatrist? They can give you (much safer) drugs that'll help you keep away from addictive spirals, so long as you stay away from the benzos.
I did it too man you can do it. Nothing wrong with weed if your life is on balance.
How long have you been off? Took me 2 years to get myself back after stopping cold turkey.
@@justinpaul8160 about 2 years.
A lot of my paranoia is gone now and I'm starting to get social again.
Well done for getting off of it, you've done yourself one hell of a service. 👏
Question:
If all strains of weed had been available to you, would you have become addicted to meth?
Facts...when you're getting high or trying to... your personal hygiene takes a major back door, brushing your teeth, taking a bath, eating, drinking, brushing your hair, it just doesn't matter anymore, it's fascinating and frightening!
My day used to start with a shower at 8am listening to Killed by Death by Motorhead and then id bang up to The Chase is Better than the Catch. The no sleep for Zonks stuffed my mind up when got off it for a time..But i was hygiene ok but lost 10kg. Went broke as well.
Can’t believe that changing the name of a drug by one letter didn’t help the situation in Thailand.
K
Yaba
No kidding haha
@Meow🐈 they changed the name from yama ("horse pill") to yaba ("crazy pill").
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Actually it kinda does help with youths in Malaysia (between Thailand and Singapore). Here we called it “pil kuda” which means horse pills. And with that name many people believe they are pills for racing horse. Ironically I believe it too.
"I would like to congratulate drugs, for winning the war on drugs" truest statement ever made. We need to stop the war and start the help. Alot of these people need help an that don't mean throw them in jail
@Nak Parakak facts every day every country makes coffee and alcohol but we can't legally smoke some bud everywhere? Wtf is that about u know.
True, you don't solve a problem by creating a bigger problem. You wouldn't punish a person with mental health issues or cancer.
@@rockhoundcustomjewelry its not that drugs are illegall, how could they be, its just the not the drugs the government can make money off of
@Rene Ramirez Everything OK, here if you need to talk
Will never fucking happen
I was a meth addict for many years now. I've been sober for 3 years but it was unintentional because I was forced to move to a place where I don't know any dealers personally. I don't buy meth from people that I don't know or those who are not recommended by people that I know of. It's a struggle for 3 years as you literally have an itch that can only be scratched in a certain way. However, I immediately see the effects of me not using meth for 3 years. There are both positive and negative effects, most of the negatives though is withdrawal. Your mood swings are insane, it is difficult to get sleep and you feel like you have completely lost your willingness to do something. I feel like I am helpless if I'm sober, and everyday is a struggle looking for someone who knows someone where I can buy. After a while, it gets better though, right now I am avoiding a situation where there's a possibility that I can get it. The only time that I realized that I was getting better when there was one time when one of my friend told me that he has some and wanted to come over so we can smoke, I respectfully declined and since then he never asked me to smoke meth out of respect of my decision. It is not a complete BS to tell you that smoking meth is like giving you an insane amount of mental ability to do things that you couldn't do, ranging from arts, music, and science but the longer you're using the your body will want more and more and that is a problem. Your dosage level will increase to a point that 90% of your income will be only spent on meth. My advice to those who are still on it, maintain your dosage if you haven't decided to quit yet and for those people who knows a love one who is addicted on meth, don't force them to go to rehab if they are not ready because they will go into relapse and it is far worst than what they are currently.
Not sure if you can read this comment, but you most likely have ADHD. Most people who have major "benefits" from meth beyond the high (e.g. being able to *better* manage their life or focus like neurotypical people) do, and you might want to seek a therapist not to get on meds (unless they're non-amphetamine meds like strattera or guanfacine) but to develop coping skills and the like so you *don't* get back on it, and so if you *do* have the urge there's the option of safer and less stigmatized harm reduction.
@@questionablebackyardmeows I am seeking a therpaist actually.
@@questionablebackyardmeowsu have adhd fucking everyone has it
Methamphetamine is an acidic drug, which causes the mouth to become dry. Saliva is vital to keeping the mouth balanced and prevent acid from eating away at the tooth enamel. When the salivary glands are suppressed from prolonged use of meth, the mouth becomes very acidic and the teeth begin to rot
The war on drugs will only really be won when you find out why the people are taking them and fixing that problem.
i disagree Mizu. the war on drugs is un-winable. it has failed miserably. it will not and cannot be won or even decreased, until foregin and domestic manufactures are delt with. realistically, not even then. due to the ammount of profit involved and void being filled ceaselessly. furthermore the money must be followed to those here in the U.S., to individuals who are profiting on that trade. reguardless of where that leads and to whom. these are the actual criminals in this equation and where the focus should be. the indivduals using drugs are more victims of unscrupulous profiteers than anything. the drug user suffers from addiction and health problems, both mental and physical. addicts should be assisted rather than imprisoned. that said, my personal belief is addiction is more a bad choice and not a disease. on a more important and pressing note. it's actually "NOT" the goverments business what an adult consumes. goverment regulation and criminal enforcement is an overreach of tyrannical athuority impeding constitutional right's and freedoms. contempoary amercians are so conditioned and indoctranated, that we continually and willingly accept the diminishing of personal freedom without question. i see this as a more destructive force than drugs or their unquestionable negitive impact. if an addict OD's, honestly thats just one less problem (theirs). the current sedious policies, procedures and practices, have done ZERO to combat drugs, they're use or manufacture. the drug issue has done nothing but increase, despite alleged efforts to stop them. what has been acomplished is the deminishing of constitutional rights and freedoms provided by an extreamly faux pas criminal and sezure court, protected by rule of law while utilzing pirate tactics and disenfranchisement perpatrated upon subjugated citizens by a ruleing elite. rather than elected servants of "we the people". plus we are further inflicted by the growth and advancment of the "corporate" prison system, in the supposed land of the free. the U.S.imprison's more citizens than any other country. due mainly to arbitary laws and policy, enforced for the most on the most marginalised and defensless people affected by drugs and our contempoary attempts at combating them. one more thing, if illicit drugs were legal and readily avaiable to those who seek them, actual violent and property crimes would deminish overnight. due to the fact that the majority of real crimes is preformed by addicts attempting to get that next fix. as it now stands, the cure is worse than the disease. physician heal thyself!
Cause they want to..
The government doesn’t care why you’re using drugs. If it’s not being taxed it’s gonna be illegal.
The war on drugs is lost they will never eradicate drugs the only thing left to do for the government is to legalise,regulate and profit it's sad but that's how I see it
Wrong. Drugs won about 50 years ago when the US decided to go to war with inanimate objects
I was a heroin addict for over a decade. And even amoung the heroin users we would tend to steer clear of meth users, the psychosis they would have would make them a psychotic nightmare. At least with Heroin users the most that would happen is they would nod out, but with meth addicts they are completely unpredictable. One minute they would be completely fine and the next they would flip their lid and pull out a knife or a gun. That drug literally would drive people to insanity
Its funny how he said it was “capitalist”problem like cmon the Germans used meth to blitz during WW2 and China probably is the #1 in fentanyl production
@@bronco35 drug dealers represent what capitalism is at its core
@Agency in Repose drug dealers are capitalist
@@jamilbarbee6169 maybe laissez-faire but not our system that has slight regulations. If it was a command economy then you got corruption with the big corporations working with politicians
I’m a fairly new user to meth and you are definitely right the drug makes you crazier. I’m finding I’m becoming ever more short tempered and always feel like I’m better than others and others should obey my orders not the other way around.
My sister and I were both IV addicts. I used heroin and cocaine, she used heroin and meth. I did dabble in meth as well but I found it way too intense. Once she started to use meth her life really went downhill. She began stealing from every store she went into. She stole upwards of 500 designer bags so she could sell them for more drugs. It also changed her diet and she started consuming more sugar which led to poor dental health because she wasn’t brushing her teeth regularly due to being homeless. It wasn’t the meth directly that fucked up her teeth, but it was the effects of it on her mental and physical state that caused her to stop caring for herself. She ended up getting pregnant and having a beautiful little boy and she’s now almost a year clean and working to get custody of him.
😂
Hope your sister is still clean and things worked out for her. You too.
Yup…..I went from zero to complete idiot in 3 months…..who would have thought that not sleeping might perhaps maybe be a problem ?.???
Well this changed me from "meth not even once" to "meth in moderation"
Some people can, some people cant, some people start rough then figure it out and some people go off the wagon immediately,
While im sure more people can handle it than cant, if you dont feel the need to dont bother, if you do be reasonable
“We would like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on Drugs “ that’s ICONIC
Meth causes mouth dryness which leads to decay and recession or 'shrinking' of gums. I've seen plenty of meth mouth out here in Vancouver.
Meth mouth 😂😂😂🤣
Is that smoking it snorting it shooting it or All? I used it when I was a kid and if I snorted it or smoked it it would give me nasty mouth and I could not drink enough water... But does it have the same effect when somebody shoots it?
Everyone knows this. People know someone or went thru it... #vice #fakenews commie propaganda.
Get the youth on drugs and take control of the cities, byebye!
Pretty sure mouth dryness happens in most amphetamines like addy or even vyvanse. But to what degree not sure...
thats methd up
I still remember when you could buy packages of ephedrine energy/weight-loss tablets from 7-11. They were always in a box by the register. You had to be quick though because local cooks had people running from store to store to buy up their limit in packages. I forget when the ban when into effect, but I'm pretty sure you could buy these tabs well into the 90s.
I was on meth for 6 months and no one even knew it, not even my family. I didn't loose weight I actually was eating while.on it more than my usual appetite. My appearance didn't change at all. It was just a euphoric feeling which made me chase the high.
My brothers about 7 month in on using it. If you don’t mind me asking, what got you off it? What helped you? Glad you got out
I've had similar experiences although if you're a occasional weekend user the loss of appetite is noticeable and you can very easily go a day without eating. Although if you're a more frequent functional user your appetite comes back after the first 2 or 3 days you do it. Basically your metabolism adjusts itself to get use to the drug even if doses are increased, a similar way to how the brain's neurotransmitter production adjusts to form a tolerance to the high it gives but this takes longer to take effect usually.
@@user-almlsona what?
I like this interviewer, i'm sure Vice will fire him for no reason like usual.
Maybe He isn't left enough?
@@THEDAVILAK1 even the centre looks left to a RWNJ 🙄 Suck an exhaust pipe yeah 👍🏻
To bad he doesn't know much of wtf hes talking about.
@@ashdoglsu please enlighten us. What exactly has he said that’s not true?
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"Sorry, we're gonna have to let you go."
I did a fair amount of meth when young, and live in a hood where lots of people still do. I disagree with this guy. I found that it only took a couple of days on the stuff before I started seeing things that were not there/
Faces of meth is false? I don't think so. There is a woman in my hood, a prostitute. She used to be pretty cute. Now I see her around, she is gaunt and putting on heavy makeup to cover the sores on her face. People get to the point where they chronically pick their own skin, looking for bugs which their skin feels like they have.
It won't hook you right away? Well, that may be true when you sniff it, but after the first time I injected it, I started craving it, a lot, which happened to my friends, too.
It doesn't mess up your teeth? Again, I disagree. It makes you grind your teeth a lot, it gives you a dry mouth, it makes you crave sweets because you can't stand or digest regular food, and it makes you neglect self-care. That is a recipe for early toothlesness.
I am not saying that our current approach is good, or working. Clearly, it is not. I think there should be access to good, high-quality treatment on demand. but I do not think that free-market legalization is a good idea. It is addictive, and the craving is bottomless. Tolerance builds rapidly, and people who originally would stay up all night on one-fortieth of a gram may find themselves doing a gram and a half in one shot. Snd does their personality deteriorate? Big time. Paranoid psychosis sets in really quickly so does a lack of compassion and a generally bad attitude, often leading to violence. It is not the narcotics addicts who pick fights with people for literally no reason. It's the meth heads. That is until they reach the really advanced stage, where you just see them danging around constantly, homeless, putting together piles of trash on the streets, and dancing and wiggling constantly while talking. But you don't understand a word that they say, because they have talked so much that their voices are gone.
It was not the government, but the drug-using hippies of the 1960s, who coi8nded the phrase "speed kills." They saw it happen, and so have I. A lot of my friends from my meth using days are dead.
talking like you know. not in uk yet 🙏
Look at this video these clowns did a month ago saying "high grade skunk" makes people violent. ->czcams.com/video/M-lEAvgtU5A/video.html
richard ramsay wrong. czcams.com/video/F5ZtzaWzdZw/video.html my sources say the exact opposite. The more potent the strain the less violent
@@richier4095 it gives you mental health problems truss me
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Those meth memes and the stigma around them have probably kept millions from trying it. It sucks for the people already affected but once it starts to be seen as just another party drug there'll be no stopping it in the UK or anywhere else
The jokes and slander made me have to challenge it. It lost, I got unconsciously addicted but I've never craved it unless I had it
@@WhatEverIwant36 I think thats very common, as someone with a perscription for amphetamines, when i have not taken it i dont crave it, if i have taken it there will be that urge at the end of the day to take more before it wears off, then once you let it wear off the craveing is gone.
I think thats why stimulant abuse follows more a pattern of binge and crash and not consistant daily use, people use all they have untill its gone, run out, burn out, then by the time they have rested up its not in their system anyways so the urge is gone
" I see your opiods I raise you meth" among the stupidest things ever said by a place officer. I much rather be addicted to meth than Fentanyl. WAY safer WAY easier to get off of.
Meth is also a problem in South Africa. It's called tic and it's smoked.
Yes in the Cape Flats no wonder those okes don’t have teeth
I’ve been take math since 13 years old... untill 31 now 36.. my teeth look so good ( after take it you need to brush ) and honestly I’ve been normal if i take it... 😂...
@@kuzayarahim1633
I’m glad you take math so seriously, it’s always a good idea to stay focused on your studies 😂
Here in England we get meth on tic
@@kuzayarahim1633 Well I'm not a fan of both MATH and METH, TBH. But it's good that Math is helping u staying normal. Keep up with ur studies.
“So what you’re saying is, meth is good” -Cathy Newman
Underrated comment
@@haizi7179 ehh
"Good" is a major understatement
no
@@centeguahan3760 lmao
Thank you again for a valuable information and once more showing up the war on drugs has failef misserably!
You did a really good job guys! Keep up the good work
Meth is no joke. 10 years clean and still going strong. May everyone have a blessed life and stay strong through this world wide pandemic 😷🤙🏼✌🏼🙏🏼
Scamdemic
corona deniers are really the most stupid people of this planet.
Good going!
@@TheBestFlosd no one denies it just a lot of people believe they are using it for a political agenda which is true you could you argue your stupid if you cant see it because its pretty obvious
@@ophiolatreia93 plandemic
Telling the internet to stop a meme is like telling Eve not to eat the forbidden fruit... it's just going to make them want to do it more.
yeah but if it starts a new meme it might still spread the intended message
@@demonz9065 True
It's a dead meme at this point. If anything all I see is ironic posts about being a crackhead.
That is such a myth. Telling people not to do something does not inspire them to do it more. My mom told me not to do the hardcore drugs. I never did it just because she told me not to
@@lustrousandlovely6847 just a joke dude. Chill.
It's kind of crazy to think that 20 years ago a meth bust was a very rare occurance in my area (NW Illinois), and now meth is commonly found on petty criminals and most traffic stops.
The new cocaine
“This is charity it shouldn’t be charity it should be public health!” That says it all man.
Funny how the the coverage of meth is more positive than the one about weed lol
@Phil M. stop overusing the word cringe 😬
Bro Vice literally has whole series dedicated to weed?😂
@@Anthony-zl9ww I was talking to this "The War on Drugs" series. Vice has been doing weed videos for a decade lol
@Phil M. why are potheads the worst?
@Phil M. You are being such a narc rn
That is the most tweaker rigged hot rail pipe I've ever seen 😂
That's when you're at a whole nother level when you do so much meth that you have to have a cooling chamber on your meth pipe
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@Truth Tha DemiGod congrats on the 5yrs with many more to come.
That’s straight up engineering
Haha yeah! I used to buy test tubes and blow my own nice glass hotrailers.
In Vancouver, I lived in a residence where a notorious meth addict lived a few doors away from me in the early 2000s. At the time, I blamed her meth abuse for this person's raging unstablity. I now realize that there were many other factors involved with her life. Blaming everything on her meth use was far too simplistic. Thank you for these documentaries, which show the truth about the failed war on drugs.
That’s scary, we were looking at buying a house in Vancouver for our kids education, we currently live in Mexico and I don’t know a single person who uses it, it’s banned actually by the dealers, they will kill anyone caught selling it.
@@Micheal1122 My experience dated from 2006 to 2011. I lived in a small area of the city where addiction was rife. However, there is so much more to Vancouver than hard drugs. It is a wonderful city with great beauty and culture. Every city has its problems though.
@@danarcher9012 My wife really wants it for a summer home where it’s not so hot, I’m just kinda waiting for the Dictator up there to be removed before I feel safe enough to invest in Canada.
@@Micheal1122 Trudeau is not a dictator. You will be safe in Vancouver dude.
It is disgusting that people in Philippines allowed that bloodthirsty president to do such brutal things without facing any backlash
Did meth one time. It was the extreme depression after that made me realise it was addictive, being so down after is high motivation to get high again to escape the depression.
That's very perceptive mate.....I'm addicted to alcohol and am now taking help to reduce my intake. One drug I have never tried is Heroin, I reckon it wold grip me from the word go. Cheers mate.
dont ever do pure mdma then. You feel the best you ever have then have to try not to end it the next day you feel so down and slow. I heard 5htp helps
I've tried them all. I truly enjoy meth. Heroin hurts my feelings, physically and emotionally, I could never live like that. Alcohol is just lame af, slurring words and washing out of good nutrients that could've stayed in my system! Weed doesn't make anybody high, it makes you low and paranoid 😂 shatter and all these new weed concentrates are the new crack! Crack-cocaine makes no sense. Powder is a waste of money and tooo short of a high for that Escobar price. Shrooms ehh, can't do that on a regular or else... psych ward. Ketamine is trash. Ketamine users are the most weird weridos on the planet. Always with the dusty nose. LSD is fun. I've only heard good reviews about acid. DMT... that's special, you know it, it knows you, it's always about timing. With that said, Meth is the way. Ephedrine is power! DMT...
@@ter8901 I was down but it wasn’t that bad. Reassurance from people who’ve been through it also go a long way. Day 3 and I was back to normal
@@8GPowerful I agree with almost all of that ,but weed is actually amazing ,if you can use it properly from the very beginning and never have any kind of tolerance to it ,the issue is that no one can smoke weed once every two years ,stoners always wanna smoke as much as possible
drugs are only good when you dont abuse them ,but thats the issue
Gotta love Vice pretty much saying "nah man it's okay have some you'll be okay"
What do you suggest they do? Addicts know it’s dangerous so just repeating that drugs are bad isn’t going to help in fact it could push more people to do them.
Gotta love when someone would rather buy into the laughable stigma surrounding this drug rather than see the reality of the bs aka anti-drug warnings
Great journalism. Thank you
"Blue yellow pink, keep giving me that"
Meth is not something I'm looking to try. I'm sticking with my 4 pm ginger ale.
@Louis Jones Lol fake ass ginger ale with high fructose corn syrup.
same tho. nice pfp
@Louis Jones nothing is better than weed lol
@Louis Jones your liver and wife disagrees
@Louis Jones You don’t need to smoke cannabis to enjoy it. There is no lung pain or damage from low temp dabbing live rosin. This isn’t the Stone Age.
Words are not enough to state how extraordinarily good and important this War On Drugs series is! Now if someone argues in favor of the War on Drugs approach, I could just direct them here rather than arguing with them for hours.
This was very enlightening. I've honestly never once, ever, heard your specific opinions, or series of facts, presented like this before -- which makes me feel dumb, but I'm very glad and grateful to have been able to have learned of all this, and so thanks for opening my eyes.. it makes me think they're probably a lot of other topics that perhaps I know about and consider obvious that other people might not know about. As well I'm sure there are a number of topics that you know about in addition to this that I'm completely unaware of.
....So I'm going to subscribe to this channel for sure !, and learn as much as I can about this--- but now I just also want to see what else there is around the world that I I'm not told about for whatever reason.. not only drugs, but them, and politics, and culture, everything. This video opened my eyes in a way I did not expect lol.
I'm sure some people, probably like a billion people, already knew about this but maybe it's because I'm a dumb American or maybe it's because the media isn't great here, or you only hear one side of things here? I don't know.. But-- I've never heard you're arguments, and it makes me think differently about what else I might not know..
For example, did you know that when they made methylenedioxy-methamphetamine illegal, in the US, one of the main ways that they demonized this amphetamine that seemingly brought together all different races and genders of various orientations, lovingly and unproductively dancing peacefully as one ---- it was to shown that the brain of a person who was on MDMA had all these crazy holes in it...welllll..... turned out , that wasn't an MDMA user, it was a user who had heavily been involved with methamphetamine for many years and years - and that info came out just a few years afterwards , but they didn't do a damn thing to change the laws.. the 1980s n 90s saw the government here screw its own in a lot of ways... I have my own theories on that but I won't allow it right now haha...
I know in England and elsewhere people talk about cathinones or MCAT, or, 3 MMC or different things like that ... but do you know , here in America, barely anyone knows about any of that stuff? Literally if you brought it up you'd be considered some kind of drug freak depending on WHOM you talk to; when in reality, I do chemical research writing, so I read about things from all over the world! But, the moment I talk to somebody about... MXE... Or explain what etizolam is, or aminorex.. I risk getting branded or stigmatized, the way your video kind of suggests; I think you're right that there's an unfair stigmatization and a causality that is completely rooted in bias and a bigotry - a real social classest bigotry. It shouldn't be this way.
It's only doing a disservice to world culture and to our survival as a species to not tell the truth to one another about this and about anything. Anyway sorry I do rant because as I said I am a writer so I fill pages with words far too easily!! Lol.. I just wanted to thank you for making this video and feel free to make other videos that you might think are delving into topics that everybody already knows all about --- because they might not.. I get paid to research this stuff and I don't know sooo much.
Peace!!🔥💎🔥💎🔥
Were you on meth when you wrote this
Your on Meth... definitely.
This is an amphetamine post for sure. Lmfao😂
Cathinones are bath salts, they were popular in the US for a short time before being banned
It’s honestly sad to see the number of people on the comments who are either in self-denial of their own drug addictions or delusional about the effects of drugs on people and their lives.
lol "stop with the meth memes"
like thats a real problem
I've been clean off of meth for 6 years or so. I dont count my days like most people in recovery because I'd rather just forget about that whole chapter of my life. I used for almost 10 years. I'm 33.
Edit: thanks for the likes everyone. For anyone struggling, reach out to someone! People will usually help if you're honest!
Right on brother, I got like 8 months I think
Congrats drew! Just be careful and don't let it back in... Stopped one day myself about 17 years ago--made it ten years without...not sure if I can put it down this time.
@@leavemealone.2150 I hope you find the strength to let it go again.
Would you be willing to give a description of how the high was like?
@@CoinsAndCapsaicin Thanks, it is not a great way to live..as you likely understand.
In the 90's (teens), I remember some of my friends turning from coke to meth because the meth was similar price at the time but it was a longer lasting high.
Since, I've seen those same friends dead or rotting from it.
Similar thing with heroin and fentanyl, switching to the latter because it's stronger and cheaper. (Same people, same deal.)
I guess I was "lucky", drank and drugged for 16 years, been clean for the past 12. (alcohol and painkillers, personal drugs of choice.)
Coal region of Pennsylvania.
Smoking meth does indeed make your teeth fall out, I smoked meth for years, and I saw many people that smoked it have teeth fall out, snorting or injecting however does not make ur teeth fall out.
As a ex junkie i was around alot of tweakers and of all the drug users they scared me the most, when it came to violence and delusions.
I used to smoke with some people that would talk to themselves and claim they would hear and see things. Needless to say it was the beginning of the end of that road from then on lol.
All of my family and their friends are tweakers and I used to smoke when I lived with them. From my experience, the delusional people are the ones who are shooting up.
@@officialshutterfly i've never shot up m€th but i've still had awful hallucinations and paranoia as well. it just really depends on how much you're taking but since when you're shooting up it directly hits your bloodstream it makes sense that it's more common in iv-users but not restricted to them :)
@@officialshutterfly the guy that would talk to "voices" would smoke it, i stuck to rails since I was used to coke before it so I never got to feel how intense that high was. Just weed for me now thank you very much lol
@@marlboromaggi I did have hallucinations but only after staying up for 4+ days straight. I could be wrong but I strongly feel like the lack of sleep is worse for your health than the drug itself. For example, my dad smokes just about every day but he sleeps every night and he is relatively normal.
Meth is not bad for your teeth- it’s just a lack of dental care: Shows tweeker smoking from aluminum foil jammed into a pen into a pill jar.
They also clench and grind their teeth
Awesome reply @xsteevox.🤣
Actually Vice gets that wrong. My SO is a dentist who treats A LOT of Methmouth. The drug dries out your mouth and that's where a lot of the problems are. I'm sorry, but even someone with horrible oral hygiene will not end up with a mouth that looks like a meth addict's. Those pictures in the "Meth not even once" is what my SO deals with multiple times a week. We're talking about 20 year olds who are in recovery.
Terrible reporting. It's almost like they were saying "if you inject meth and brush your teeth, you'll be alright". Ridiculous. Absolutely disgusting.
@@DrieStone yea this whole video is full of false information. I don’t care how often you don’t brush your teeth your mouth will not look as bad as a meth addicts. You are literally inhaling corrosive chemicals and letting it sit directly on your teeth.
Before the pandemic I didn't know a single person that does meth. Now 50% of my apartment complex neighbors are doing it. There's also 4 meth dealers at just one single apartment complex. Not to mention, homelessness like no other.
I was prepared to disagree with you but you were really spot on. I've been clean for 10 years and never lost my teeth or picked my skin, but it nearly took my life.
My family recently adopted my uncles one year old daughter because he’s been addicted to meth for years. It’s so heartbreaking. He has 5 kids and is on the path to lose them all.
Damn That sucks I’ll say a prayer for him
@@trix1227 Did it work?
Side effects of taking pills are different than injecting or smoking it.
I've don't a fair share of experimentation with drugs, but I've never injected or smoked anything(besides weed) and have never had a bad experience. I'm prescribed amphetamine as medicine. I think that you have to set limits for yourself. Because once you take that first step, you can never go back and I don't want to take that chance. But then again, I'm not in the situation that a lot of these people are in. The drug problem is more of a social and a political problem than anything else.
@@Shinkajo you really should quit injecting the weed yanno
Eh, I've heard the whole roa argument many times but believe it or not eating meth is actually stronger than smoking, it's closer to shooting
@@Shinkajo i t hè met master wit Fries nitwit innit
@@Shinkajo
Let me tell you, after doing lots of Adderall, Vyvanse and Ritalin in highschool.
Smoking meth is another animal.
I love how well thought out the war on drugs is............................
I come from Indonesia in 2010. I once made methamphetamine when I was working in Thailand, it wasn't that difficult to make, but it didn't last long, because I intended to stop, because I was always haunted by very deep fear, anxiety, anxiety, until I couldn't even sleep soundly, so in 2011 I stopped and returned to my home country
He literally said America has a capitalism problem.
hes not wrong
@A D humans are stupid and buy stupid stuff then complain about being stupid
If you don't believe this, read up on Walmart being pardoned earlier this year for intentionally filling bogus prescriptions. It's ok to be a drug dealer so long as you're a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Facts capitalism bleeds exploitation and keeping people engaged in a war on drugs keeps some families fed really well.
Hey, not to say that capitalism IS the problem, but there definitely ARE problems with capitalism. No system we ever come up with will be infallible, we're dumb fuckin apes
remember?
Seeing train spotting when I was 8 has really made me scared of being addicted to any drug. I’m already addicted to sugar and it’s a hell of an addiction, don’t want another one.
Amen
Dont touch coffee once. Not even once... before you know it you're putting sugar IN the coffee for a real headspin... real hard to stop. ☕ cheers
@@JB-qq1xz Ok? I drink coffee everyday anyway
Requiem for a dream
@PsychedTrip To be fair, caffeine is a drug. And it does have addictive potential, believe it or not.
Did he seriously say stop making meth memes at the end? WTF?!?!?! 😂
Thank you Vice.
I feel much more comfortable trying Meth now. 😊
How the piece starts “Meth isn’t thaaaaat bad come in guys”
So Stupid, I’ve seen it destroy people
your a fool
@@pakdakid www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/methamphetamine/what-scope-methamphetamine-misuse-in-united-states 1.6 million people have used it yet only 7.75 million have used in the last month,maybe it’s the person and their enviroment rather than the drug itself
@@willb586 drugs don’t discriminate
ive seen meth destroy dozens of very close friends’ lives. Not an “okay” substance.
The memes are pretty accurate actually. But those photos are of HARCORE addicts. Not everyone is a hardcore addict. On a scale of 1 to 10, those people are a 20. And trust, I've seen plenty of 20s.
thats what im saying, those memes are FACTS. I know that first hand cus that was me lol. cleaned up though.
I have casually used speed for 35 years. It is like any hard drug, moderation. Remember Alcohol is by far the worlds most destructive drug. I was a functional alcoholic for ten years and that almost killed me working long hours , 5 hours sleep a night and a good social life. Ten years of that i was like, back to very low use of weed and little bit of speed on weekends. I feel 10 million percent better than that feral drunk playing WOT tank till 11pm then driving a forklift hungover and brain-dumbed at 5 am every morning. My ex is still a chronic alcoholic and she will not live a long life if she keeps drinking. Ps i have never injected drugs, that is fucked. Only snorted, eaten in capsule or smoked. Smoking is great fun but i keep to a minimum as the sleeping pattern suffers. And in am financially stable so never done crime for drugs or alcohol. If life wasn't so depressing being born into economic bondage and crammed into these shoe-box cities i am sure many people "not all" would need less drugs.
This was a spot-on segment I'm sad to say won't hit home to the right people it should.
Thank you for shedding some light on the world. I hope others realize that the 'war on drugs' is the same as a war on impoverished and displaced human beings. War never helps anyone and always hurts everyone, in one form or another.
As a person who is getting clean, again, I thank you from the bottom of my soul.
What Vice fails to mention is that meth is incredibly addicting due to the INTENSE brain reward it stimulates which is extremely reinforcing. This causes users to seek the experience over and over and over again, leading them to neglect their jobs, their children, their oral hygiene etc. Don't sugarcoat it Vice. These kinds of stories are intellectually lazy. If you really want to do some good why not report on the underlying reasons people do drugs in the first place: physical, emotional, and sexual trauma and isolation (the real gateway drugs).
People have been doing drugs as long as we have been people....some of the earliest cave art iss sharing recipes for hallucinogenic teas and such....we are supposed to have relationships with the plants around us and whoever thought they had a right to tell other humans they cant put PLANTS in their own body and started a WAR on drugs which makes those same people (the men who passed the legislation) billions of dollars through the prison system AND the rehab industry are the real criminals! NOBODY has a right to tell me what i can put in my body or what i can do with my body its MINE......if we dont own our own bodies and can be hunted a.nd locked in cages for what we choose to do to them then what DO we own?.....who has the right to decide for others? Its just a new system of slavery and its all about money.....the founding fathers would be rolling in their graves....auite a few of them were addicts, smugglers, paid for sex etc.....as long as its consensual and nobody is out to hurt anybody else WHO CARES?!? When did it become the governments business what my lifestyle is if i dont hurrt anyone but myself ....i have a right to make mistakes and and a right to be unhealthy for a little while or for a long while I OWN MY BODY!
yep..
It doesn't do any of this for me nd I have cptsd and adhd. However the adhd is probably why.
true, vice are a bit too biased towards drugs tbh
no the "brain reward" not much different from normal amphetamines.... it's people like you that distort the information if you ask me, cos you have no experience of them
Very well said at the end of the video.
It is not that I have ever used meth, but as a chemist I have this to say about the issue of amphetamines destroyng teeth. It is cetanly true that pure amphetamines, as those a person will get from a pharmacy, will not do any harm to teeths. But much illegal amphetamine/methamphetamine does contain impurities, because of the way it is produced, and I would say that some of these impurities could do a lot of damage to teeths - especially if the substance is smoked. You could maybe draw some paralells to the drug "crocodile". The active substance in it is dexo-morphine, a substance that is pretty much similar to other types of morphine, and it self will not cause the destruction of the body, associated with "crocodile". In fact dexo-morphine, has been sold in pharamacies in some countries earlier. What gives "crocodile" the horrible effect on the body, are the impurities it contain, from the way it is made from red phosphorous and other chemicals. The primary harmfull effect from many illegal drugs, are the many impurities they contain. There is a huge difference between using a pure product, made in pharmacutical factory, and the illegal variant made in an improvised laboratory.
I live in the meth capital of Missouri. I’ve seen first hand how this effects people physically and mentally. It’s so sad to see once amazing people get taken advantage of by such a disgusting epidemic. Stay safe yall.
Lies again? Math Meth
Independence!
@@NazriB
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100%. It boggles my mind how there are untold amounts of stories about illicit drug use destroying people’s lives and people are still shocked when their life gets destroyed.
@@666m111 not true
Having that problem till this day... I hate it because it causes me pain and it makes it feel better. It's a never ending cycle man... But when you don't have any support especially during these days it's hopeless.
Don't give up
I've been using all sorts of chemicals since 16. I'm 41 and just had a year clean on Halloween. Don't give up hope
Don’t give up! I’ve been clean from it for 4 years. You can do it. I know it’s hard right now but please seek help in your community and rehabs. They really help break the addiction when you are ready. Prayers for you my friend. You deserve more than you know. Don’t let evil things steal your joy. There’s still hope. There will always be hope.
You can just stick to coffee, beer, and weed like "normal" people...
@@JB-qq1xz well I started doing drugs before I even started drinking coffee lol but only if it was that easy...
I noticed how meth makes somebody act on emotional impulse, its like an amplifier of emotions, thereforce increasing the risk of decisions and poor choices. When I started using I was a typical unconscious, point the finger at someone else type of person, unaware of actions and outcomes/consequences...I got to the point where I knew I didnt want to stop, so I did go to therapy, high of course, and just let everything out, made me understand triggers and helped me keep control of my emotions waaaaay better, and let me tell you something, even when high and you know yourself better and have better control of emotions and impulses. Ive always been able to manage it. But I want to stop now
very well said
As a law enforcement officer I want to add something. While meth on its own does not rot your teeth out is does contribute, not just by making people neglect themselves. Meth reduces the amount of protective saliva around your gums and makes sugar buildup easier. People addicted to meth often consume large quantities of carbonated drinks or other sugar filled foods because the way meth wires your brain. These two factors contribute to the loss of yeah and changing of appearance.
And the lack of food and nutrition
and the bruxism (teeth grinding/jaw clenching)
@@jesskcanada It depletes your bodys calcium reserves and thats why your teeth begin to fall out in a matter of time - regardless of how good your personal hygiene and nutrition is, they will fall out ! Meth is the most evil drug on earth, besides Crack Cocaine. I know that from personal experience. You can use heroin and still be a decent or good person, but Methamphetamine will open a portal for the demons.
@@JohnSmith-so7mh not everyone loses their teeth, I never lost one (although I did end up with periodontal [gum] disease). No argument from me about it being evil or letting demons in to your life. Glad we got away
@@justins3810 Take this opportunity to get clean. Adderall is almost the same as meth. Took it once and almost made me relapse.
I lost my best friend from high school to meth. After he got addicted, he started cooking, and selling it. He got busted, and served eight years of a ten year sentence. Now he's an evangelical minister. Meth is a hell of a drug
So is religion.
@@jamiemackie3994 aaand GO!
Excellent docu
Speaking from experience couple of things in this video that bothered me. All forms of speed tend to make your mouth dry inviting bacteria to stick around. Also people who are on amphetamines tend to grind their teeth a lot and this is what leads to the typical Meth mouth. And like the video said people who are deeply addicted to drugs tend to not take care of themselves and oral health being so extremely expensive in the United States is off of the table altogether. But don't think for a moment that amphetamine and other forms of speed are completely benign. You've ever seen anyone who is taken methamphetamine for long periods of time they get what is called amphetamine psychosis which is undifferentiated from schizophrenia. Also think about where meth is made and how it's made and who is making it. I don't know about you but I really don't want to do a drug that includes things like rat poison and drain cleaner and other things. And remember I am speaking from experience at the bullshit that is fed by the government.
Thanks, they almost made the drug sound tempting. This is a nice kick back to reality.
No rat poison in meth. Lye from drain cleaner yes.
I went through meth psychosis. Not fun
What ingredient in meth is also used as rat poison? I agree drain cleaner "lye" is used.
Stimulant psycosis in all but the rarest of cases comes NOT from the drug, but from failing to sleep for days on end.
There are 18 million active perscriptions for amphetamine, methamphetamine, and dextroamphetamine filled out every year, you walk by productive memebers of sociaty (me included) who use these drugs regularly and do not go nuts. Danger from amphetamines unilaterally come from illicit supply, and irresponsible use.
You dont see people blameing booze when someone drinks themself out of a home, dont blame speed if someone makes the ACTIVE CHOICE not to sleep for a week streight.
This stuff destroyed me In Highschool
The negative outweighs the positive feelings and everyday u say no but then u can’t stop it’s horrible it makes u evil makes u steal makes u cry makes u everything u don’t want to do don’t start
“Vice, the official spokesperson for meth”
Oh Lord Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood --- METH -- 🧟♀️⟵(o_O)
VICE←_←
“Dr Squishybelly - the official spokesperson for stupidity”
Part of the reason it messes your teeth up is because it drys your mouth out and there’s no lubricant for your mouth. Which with that happening on the regular it makes your teeth much more likely to get cavities. People on the drug tend not to drink enough water or have proper dental hygiene
War on drugs has to become more and more intense. To make punishment a tool to end that war and having the "DRUG SIDE" losing
They forgot to include the disclaimer.
"This video is sponsored by Meth"
Haha
Right? Lol
By Mexico
" bleach blonde hair; crystal meth & yeast infections " 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵
I don't see where they are saying meth is good for you, they are just trying to help clear up some inaccuracies about it.
Lying about something may scare children from taking drugs, but adults are not so naive.
Decriminalize all drugs, provide free rehabilitation from the end of the war on drugs, educate people on the truth about drugs; ie; why some are more prone to addiction than others, how drugs work, why they are not a good long-term solution, etc. etc.
Been smoking dope for 6 years now, functioning addict same job, same house nothing’s changed
Try getting a different job
life is great bro- reach higher
@Bmoke Slunts fukkin fax
Only a matter of time... functioning addicts don’t realize that they’re functioning...until they’re not. And I’ve never seen it last..
@Bmoke Slunts I'm Structure and Wildlands Trained too, brother
Great job
amazingly done
What do you call a user that's been up for 2 weeks?
A Two_weeker
😂
This is him here sir
good one
Lol
A Fortniter?
Some dudes grind the phuck out of there teeth when there on it , and I’ve seen my friends start picking at the face in the middle of watching a movie , no thanks meth
Picking Pete
Too much water will kill you too.
Meth a friend of me😂
Too much water will you is absurd. Years of meth use can change your natural serotonin levels. That’s a big issue they didn’t even touch on. Just “muh unfairly demonizing poor people” Vice is a JOKE
Wow, the history is incredible to hear.
It’s not necessarily addictive, it’s the feelings that come after getting off of it. Extreme drowsiness and depression and a urge to be energized and awake.. it’s a feeling truly anyone would want. But it’s a drug straight from hell.. still battling it as an occasional user and with working in the restaurant industry as boh it makes it even harder to let go of. Any tips on making it through work and getting clean? All while working a full time restaurant job
Did it for 4 weeks just to try it. I’ve been depressed since i was 9 as far as i can remember. It made me a different person. I’ve never felt so happy and clear headed. The world just seemed so much better. I was more social, i was kinder and more empathetic. I thought this was how regular people felt. I’ve never had a happy day ever, and i thought this was how i wanted to feel all the time. I caught myself sneaking around and using it in the bathroom. I would do it in the living room when family was around and they werent looking. I know what addiction looks like because ive seen it in other people. The fear of being homeless without a profession or anyone that loved me was too much. I decided to quit. The world literally looked black and white. The joy that i had was gone and i was back to feeling the dread of day to day life. Small things that i enjoyed didnt matter anymore. I didnt care about anything or anyone. Before I didnt have the strength to keep going, everyday for years i thought of just ending it. I felt like i had no purpose. Now i had a taste of true happiness, and i decided to leave it behind. I know i will never do it again because it’s something i still don’t have or will ever feel again. it’s too good.
Sadly how i feel too. Myne started from a break up. Im in 4 months now. I really gotta stop
You should get on antidepressants
@@superj7106 thank you
@@superj7106 that’s a terrible idea about antidepressants,
Antidepressants are worse than meth and heroin, once you get in there’s no way out, and the withdrawals are hell,
Do not suggest anyone with antidepressants, you literally destroy their life with that
You need to find something that stimulates your brain without being harmful to you.
Meth made you happy because the meth molecule is very similiar to the dopamine molecule. But you were lucky to quit, meth destroys lives, the more you do it the more you need to get your "fix".
I had depression too but I solved in a few different ways:
1)I got a small dog. Dogs are one of the best ways to cure depression, they are loyal and give unconditional love.
Keep in mind that they are living beings and not toys so if you get one you have to be prepared to meet the dogs needs and give him a good life. I recommend a smaller breed since they produce less waste and need less space.
2)I started reading lots of books
3)I started doing creative things like 3d modeling and level design. Anything that needs creativity and where you can express your emotions through art really helps.
4)Physical exercise. It made me feel alive and I get "high" after a good run thanks to my body producing chemicals.
It also increases my libido ahaha.
All the things listed above should make you feel better and should cure your depression. I never took any drugs or anti depressants.
Those 4 things work because they stimulate your brain and produce you "happiness" chemicals.
Stay away from drugs people and be happy!
i love how i was like wow cant believe doctors did that!! then i realized i literally have an amphetamine prescription 😩
@Harry Chris those prices are SCAM prices... nothing is less than $200... shame on you
@Harry Chris ok cop... 😂
No subs, account is only 3 months old. Try harder...
@@Clos93 is he a cop?
@Harry Chris worst cop
@Harry Chris LSD due to d2 dopaminergic agonism can trigger acute pyshcosis at high doses more then other psychs, and due to adrelanergic properties can cause more bad trips, LSD lasts for 12 hours too and that way too long
if you're begginer try shrooms , barely any dopamergic activity, LSD is fun but for expereinced users
Let's also talk about why people are so unhappy that they take drugs to feel better. It's a lot of trauma from childhood and young adulthood, at least in my experience and observation.
Meth: exists
Vice: CaPiTaLiSm CaUsEd ThIs!
Remember, this information is not 100% accurate.
Go post that under this video they did on weed a month back. -> czcams.com/video/M-lEAvgtU5A/video.html
Thanks Harold. At least some people take Vice to task.
in what way is it not accurate
@Harlod Care to enlighten the world on which facts they’ve gotten wrong? Or are you just here to make blind accusations? 🙄
You heard him, guys. Quit demonizing my next door neighbor, who has a tent colony in his backyard along with every stolen bike in town.
And corruption is field with speed
Exactly. THANK YOU. I fuching hate bicycle theives.
@@altruism8637
He claims they're not stolen, but there are always minions delivering bikes to his house. Once I saw a guy riding a bike while carrying another bike, who left on foot.
@@SewerTapes Why do you think people with a drug habit steal? It's to support their habit. It was made illegal and instead of people being looked after within a healthcare environment with safe pharmaceutical grade drugs, that can be administered at a safe dose under supervision, people are therefore forced to become 'criminals' simply to have their fix and feel alright. This is what happens when people are treated like criminals in society and law. They become criminals. It's basic input output. We've demonized drug users for decades, what makes you think doing it even more will solve the problem? If there's a problem of epidemic proportion, most likely you shouldn't blame every person at the forefront of the problem; you must open your eyes to see the roots of the problem otherwise things will just get worse.
@@fynftw3
Woah, buddy. We're on the same page. I advocate serious decriminalization, and possibly, legalization of all drugs. I say take it out of the hands of organized crime, federally tax it, and ensure quality. People who use heroin should be able to attend clinics where they get injected by doctors with clean needles. The works. A portion of the tax revenue, and the money that would be going to prisons could be used for actual rehabilitation for those who want it. . . but, yeah, I'm gonna joke about my neighbors meth cult next door because it's pretty funny. There's a tipi out there with a 50s cowboys and Indians motif printed on it. . . right next to a shack made out of road work signage.
Even after smoking once it can make your skin severely irritated
so if i take care of myself doing meth is ok? thanks for the enabling info vice! :)
Its true all it takes is 1 hit. Took 8 years of my life.. Living clean now 3 and a half yrs.
Yes, but that only happens in a tiny minority of cases. In fact, according to the best available data, less than 15 percent of meth users end up addicted at all.
Addiction isn't real..choices are.. people are never addicted to the drugs themselves but addicted to the person the drugs make them become.. same with alcohol it makes them more talkative, less shy ect people just never want to leave the party and end up at a bar talking about high school like it was recent but really it's the 30 year reunion coming up lol
@@Truman448 No, addiction is real, they get addicted to the drug, not “the person they become”. I don’t know if you’re trying to be deep or something but it is real, you can die if you stop taking them instantly
@@GiantJanus not trying to be deep just know alot of people who have died from it and are currently on them my areas filled with iv drug users
@@GiantJanus they all say the samething.. that they love who the drugs make them become and how it makes them feel mentally that's why they need counseling to explain all this eventually lol that doesn't mean they hate their kids who they abandon and the things they lose living that life but the self greed for the drugs and to have fun over takes anything else to them..
Was this video sponsored by the Sinaloa Cartel?
Lmao
Nah by Walter White
El chapo paid for this AD
The war on drugs was never supposed to stop drug use
14 months clean now, I had to pack up and move away from everyone with whom I shared my meth life with. Total brand new life away from the users and the drug scene. it was the only way for me. I never thought I would be clean from meth, K and G. I was a chronic heavy user. Lost my job, retirement savings and basically a healthy lifestyle. I never judge a drug user, we're all unique with issues. I did it, broke the shackles and if you want to, too, you can. I was lucky with Top health care professionals, unlimited health funding and even then I found it ultra difficult,
always getting sucked into the vortex. I empathise with all who are trying their best to get clean. ✌💙💫
One of the interesting things I learned in treatment is that, despite certain drugs definitely being connected with certain 'scenes' or personality types, one's drug(s) of choice aren't always the one you'd expect. Of course there are clues like pupil size, tactile hallucination, paranoia, hyperactivity/nodding. But I'd always assumed people were either into stimulants OR depressives (like me, who loved opiates and benzos but had no inclination to even try uppers) and they rarely mixed categories. And that only a small number of addicts would use just about any drug offered. I've since learned that isn't true. Drug selection can vary with the need to work, sleep, socialize, concentrate, or mask effects of the 'main' drug.
Aren’t there those who choose their preferred combination of stimulants and depressants for that ‘balanced’ high/effect? Anything taken excessively will cause problems. Alcohol and sugar are two legal things which people can be addicted to along with their associated health and other problems.
@@never4ever386 Oh, definitely. Many drug users are in a constant cycle of taking stimulants to get over feeling sluggish and then depressants to come down and be able to sleep. Or they do speedballs to feel both effects at once. I'm naturally hyper and I hate feeling keyed-up so I never tried stimulants, but I've always had anxiety so I've had to find non-drug ways of calming it. I have alcohol flush syndrome (I think), so I've never had a more-than-occasional drink. But I get cravings for sweets; sugar is absolutely addictive. Nicotine too of course. At 12-Step meeting breaktimes, the parking lot always smells like an ashtray.
@@pennypay1 😂 i read this got to the end about smell.of meetings that I expected u to write donuts instead of ashtrays..lol
@@pennypay1 uppers for the downer comedown & downers for the upper comedown
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Vice has very informative videos about drugs and the drug war but PLEASE don't downplay the dangers of Meth...it's a drug that truly destroys people's souls
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Giving someone meth for Parkinson’s sounds like a sick joke 🤣