Hard Drugs Ruining Society

[Racoon]

Portland, Oregon is a nice place to live. So is Vancouver, WA., just across the Columbia river.
However, there is a disturbing trend going on. Its Methamphetimine use! ( Clark county is now "Crank" county )
" Tweekers " as we call them seem to be everywhere! I believe Meth is the worst problem because Tweekers are capable of just about anything. Just yesterday, some Meth head stabbed a police officer in the face with a screwdriver. ( officer is ok )
Traditional junkies ( heroin ) aren't nearly as bad, because they usually nod off. Whereas Tweekers are fully energized and up all night; which is the perfect time for crime that will fund their next fix.
Crank use is huge! Crimes are up, and there isn't enough jail space for all of 'em.
Identity theft, which is such a big deal now, is directly related to Meth use.
Its pretty easy to spot a tweeker; there are some telltail signs.
It seems like a scourge that can't be erradicated; They're making the stuff in Mexico now to ship up here, although there's plenty of "labs" around town.
The Sociological effects are profound

Does your city or town have these problems too???
Is there a solution to this epidemic???

[Drip Curl Magic]

Tweekers are definately easy to spot... I think we should just take them all out into the woods and shoot them all. Stimulant drugs are horribley addicting... and it's sad to see so many lives fucked up by these things. I used to live right across the street from a full blown tweeker house. At any given point in time, there would be 20 people running around the house and front yard.... all sorts of wired. And the house would get raided once a month or so.... but that NEVER stopped them from coming back. Tweekers are fucking way too much. There isn't really anything we can do to stop them, seeing as how they have so much more energy than us. I think the only thing we can do... is promote entheogenic drug use as apposed to stimulant drug use.

[Racoon]

Crank Culture: Stealing bikes, taking apart electronics, talking on CB radios ; while red sores ooze out the poison and teeth fall out.
Losing weight ( the Jenny Crank Diet ) Neglecting their kids, Arguing loudly over stupid stuff. Talking to God while walking in the road.

[Tarantism]

yeh, i agree with sean.

but just dont blame the psychadellics. haha.


regards,
(((tarantism)))

[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.

[Tarantism]

oh and, racoon:

i am very sorry that your comunity is being overrun by such terrible filth. i truely hope that things improve as far as that goes.

[Boerseun]

Tweekers, huh?

First time I've heard of it. Honestly. But it does sound like a terrible drug.

I may be naive, or stupid or something, but I could never understand the appeal of drugs. I smoked weed a couple o' times, basically through peer pressure, being young at the time, etc., but it simply didn't 'do it' for me.
Of course I party with the boys, we have fun, I have (quite) a few beers, etc., so I'm not an anti-drug anti-alcohol prudish bore, but I simply can't see the need to go for anything stronger than beer. I kid you not. I don't understand why people do this to themselves. Okay, you get hooked. Then you're stuffed. But you have to take that first hit in order to get hooked. And that's the point. Don't take the first hit. Simple. It's not worth it. See peer pressure for what it is, and tell your so-called friend to go screw himself when he offers you some strange stuff.

[Loricybin]

yeah man. i've dealt with some idiots that use that stuff. but, even worse, i've met some awesome people who do too.

i've talked to some bums before, especially in fremont and alameda county. they're mostly good people, but they all smoke a real screwed up drug.
dirty things like meth are counter productive, because after a while you can't do anything without them.

what happens in your brain and body on amphetamines is really fucked up and crazy.

[GAHD]

I know quite a few who destroyed their lives with meth; I know about as many that took the ride, crashed, burned, and and recovered too. 'Bitch' asthey call it around here is by far the dirtiest drug I've seen, and also one of the easyest to make and make a few dollars off of(as the toiletbowl chemists will proudly say).

Is there a cure? It's certainly not my government's 'free crack pipes and needles' program.

Drug use is easilly more prolific nowadays than in the 60s, but they're serving their purpose keeping my generation from burning down the universities and destroing the oil rigs, even if the moral fabric has to suffer for it.

...off to work, more later.

[Tarantism]

Originally Posted by Loricybin

yeah man. i've dealt with some idiots that use that stuff. but, even worse, i've met some awesome people who do too.

as have i. what is unfortunite is that those cool people tend to turn not cool and generally all-around the opposite of what they once were. its horrible, because from what i know, that drug has destroyed some really beautiful minds.

but i know what you mean.