Addiction to Meth
Crystal Methamphetamine is a powerful chemical that
has stimulant properties similar to adrenaline.
Crystal Methamphetamine has several different names,
including crank, crystal, speed, and meth). It may be
used through snorting, smoking (free basing) or
injection (mainlining).
Stimulant drugs mimic the action of adrenaline and
dopamine which increase heart rate, blood pressure,
breathing rate, constrict blood vessels, dilate
pupils, release sugar and fat into the blood stream.
Feelings of increased agitation, fear, anger,
alertness, and feelings of exhilaration, well being,
or euphoria result from using amphetamines. When the
stimulation goes too high, it produces feelings of
paranoia, panic, hallucinations, rage, seizures and
stroke.
Through it's stimulant effects an amphetamine produces
a positive feeling, but when it wears off it leaves a
person with the opposite feelings. A chemical
imbalance is then created and the result is
irritability that physically demands more of the drug
to go back to normal and feel good again. This
pleasure/tension cycle leads to loss of control and
amphetamine addiction.
A person using amphetamine never gets as high as she
or he did on the first dose. This is the result of the
drug's ability to suppress and deplete the brain's
production of the healthy chemical messenger that the
brain depends on to generate positive feelings. The
brain adapts to the presence of amphetamine by
decreasing production of the healthy chemical
messenger. The user then begins to use more and he has
to work harder to get a less pleasurable effect.
Ultimately he crashes. As tolerance develops to the
euphoric effects, higher doses of amphetamine are
needed to get pleasurable effects.
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