| Amp Up With Meth: Experience Psychotic Behavior, | | | | and users trying to abstain from use may suffer |
| Paranoia, Aggression, Delusions, Stroke, Weight Loss, | | | | withdrawal symptoms that include depression, |
| Brain Damage & Death | | | | anxiety, fatigue, paranoia, aggression, and intense |
| Methamphetamine can be smoked, snorted, taken by | | | | cravings for the drug. |
| mouth, and injected. Meth comes in a powder form | | | | Effects on the Brain: |
| that resembles granulated crystals and in a rock form | | | | Use of methamphetamine can cause damage to the |
| known as "ice," which is the smokable version of | | | | brain that is detectable months after the use of the |
| methamphetamine that came into use during the | | | | drug. The damage to the brain caused by |
| 1980s. | | | | methamphetamine use is similar to damage caused |
| The effects of methamphetamine can last up to 12 | | | | by Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and epilepsy. |
| hours. Side effects include convulsions, dangerously | | | | Chronic Meth users will experience out-of-control |
| high body temperature, stroke, cardiac arrhythmia, | | | | rages that result in violent behavior, anxiety, |
| stomach cramps, and shaking. During these Meth | | | | confusion, insomnia, psychotic behavior including |
| binges, users will inject as much as a gram of | | | | auditory hallucinations (hearing things), mood |
| methamphetamine every 2 to 3 hours over several | | | | disturbances, delusions, and paranoia, possibly resulting |
| days until they run out of the drug or are too dazed | | | | in homicidal or suicidal thoughts. |
| to continue use. | | | | Psychotic symptoms can sometimes persist for |
| Health Effects: | | | | months or years after use has ceased. This is a |
| The effects of methamphetamine use can include, | | | | nasty piece of work waiting for your children to |
| besides addiction, psychotic behavior and severe | | | | discover it. |
| brain damage. Methamphetamine is highly addictive | | | | |