What do you think the long term affects of methamphetamine use will have on our society?

Answer 1

It's already having a big impact on the number of grandparents raising their grandchildren because the parents can't or won't get off the stuff, and the courts take them away. Over 2 million and counting.

Answer 2

Probably, it is more far reaching than we can comprehend. It is bad enough that there are 'bad neighborhoods' as it is but there are people taking this stuff, rich kids in rich neighborhoods, that just go nuts. Although I am not rich, I live in a good place (worst house on the best street you might say) and there have been drug fuelled home invasions, rapes, murders and the like very close to where I live. I fear that I will be living in fear of these people who are out of their minds on drugs. I'm no saint and have dabbled in the past but it is a road to nowhere. These kids need to be in schools and focusing on careers. We are going to need them to look after the looming burden of the ageing baby boomers. Sometimes I am afraid of what this world will come to in the very near future. Hugs not drugs.

Answer 3

Addiction

Methamphetamine is highly addictive, particularly when injected or smoked.[24] While not life-threatening, withdrawal is often intense and, as with all addictions, relapse is common. To combat relapse, many recovering addicts attend 12 Step meetings, such as Crystal Meth Anonymous.

In an article about his son's addiction to methamphetamine, a California writer who has also experimented with the drug put it this way:

This drug has a unique, horrific quality. In an interview, Stephan Jenkins, the singer in the band Third Eye Blind, said that methamphetamine makes you feel 'bright and shiny.' It also makes you paranoid, incoherent and both destructive and pathetically and relentlessly self-destructive. Then you will do unconscionable things in order to feel bright and shiny again.[25]

Former users have noted that they feel stupid or dull when they quit using methamphetamine. This is because the brain is adapting a need for methamphetamine to think faster, or at what seems to be a higher level. Individuals with ADHD may be at higher risk for addiction to methamphetamine, because the drug increases the user's ability to focus and reduces impulsivity. Because of its abuse potential, meth is not generally prescribed for ADHD unless other stimulants, such as methylphenidate (Ritalin®), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine®) or mixed amphetamines (Adderall®) have failed.

With long-term use, abstinence often leads to slow thinking and depression, which in turn requires that the addict use more meth to 'fix' it. A chronic pattern of such behavior is known colloquially as "The Vampire Life."

Serious drug addiction correlates with poor hygiene and general self-care, and even minor health problems can lead to serious complications when left untreated. Striking health problems popularly associated with methamphetamine addiction, such as severe tooth decay or massive skin infections, are caused by unsterilized needles and a lack of hygiene. Even long-term use does not generally result in outward symptoms, but may lead to hypertension, damage to heart valves, and increased risk of strokes.

Answer 4

Meth is just the drug of the week, like crack was in the 1980s, and like with crack, the biggest damage done will be the lies told by the prohibitionists among us who believe the drug war is justified no matter how much they suppress our constitutional rights in their attempt to save us from ourselves. Our so called leaders have yet to learn the lesson they should have from the failure of alcohol prohibition a century ago. Like with alcohol, the prohibition of currently illegal drugs only serves to empower criminals, and make enemies out of people who would otherwise want to be friends of our government.
Given the threat posed by such people as the islamic radicals who are running wild with the intent to murder as many of us as possible, we don't need any more enemies.
Legalizing drugs would contribute to peace because it would take money away from criminals and stop terrorists from using drug money to build bombs.

Answer 5

A lot more ugly prostitutes. Ha ha, j/k. I think the national average for kids using drugs is actually down, so instead of kids using pot they will be using more harmful drugs (meth for ex. ) because it's cheaper and easier to come by.

Answer 6

families torn apart, brainless, idiots walking around like in "Dawn of the Dead".

Answer 7

alot of tvs and mechanical items will be taken apart and never be put back together again