What are the visible difference between a person that smokes meth. and a person that slams meth?

Question

besides the obvious needle marks? Does any body know? And if a person was hiding it where would they shoot up?

Answer 1

As with all addictive drugs, the potential for addiction is greater when it is delivered by methods that cause the concentration in the blood to rise quickly, principally because the effects desired by the user are felt more quickly and with a higher intensity than through a moderated delivery mechanism.

In fact, studies have shown that the subjective pleasure of drug use (the reinforcing component of addiction) is proportional to the rate that the blood level of the drug increases. In general, smoking is the "fastest" mechanism (i.e., it causes the blood concentration to rise the most quickly in the shortest period of time as it allows the substance to travel to brain through a more direct route than intravenous injection), followed by injecting, then snorting, then swallowing.

It is not entirely certain where anal insertion would fall on this list, but some scant anecdotal evidence puts the effects somewhere between those of smoking and snorting.

Answer 2

People who go the needle route are usually full-on junkies. Both can have the bad skin and tremors, but I think it's worse with people who slam it. Both men and women will shoot between the toes, the belly button, behind the knee. Men will shoot around their scrotum and women under their breasts. Sounds like you know someone with this problem. Good luck.