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[Celeste]

Absolutely one of the dirtiest drugs known to man.
I've known many tweekers in my life (lived in, and worked at UMC hospital in Las Vegas, the tweeker capital for 8 years) and their whole way of life and it's hold on people/tweekers gets just disgusting.

I've seen some tweekers go from 6 figure jobs to living in the streets, had two close acquintances die from the shit, known 3 that ended up in prison.
I had one ex-brother in law shot, another stabbed, both by tweekers.
I've treated and worked with tweekers that have totally lost it and became psychotic. I've treated and cried with and for the children they abuse and neglect.
I've treated and/or seen the irreversible and sometimes fatal effects. I've seen the sores, the infections, the pneumonia's, the seizures, the cerebral hemorrhages, the heart attacks, the anorexia, the arrythmia's, the rotten teeth, the psychosis, the aggression. (that's just naming a few)
I've been lied to, threatened, stole from, and even grazed by a bullet by tweeker/s.

It's absolutely the most vile, disgusting and dirty drug I've seen.

I don't know what the solution is....I just know the statistics on users, the long term effects, and the lack of success of treatments/relapse after detox, and it's not pretty. Uggghhh...this topic is to near to my heart.