what are the risks for people who smoke cristal meth after long periods of time?

Answer 1

They lose all their teeth and brain cells

Answer 2

Well, there are usually only two choices................ prison or death. You decide which one you want? My advice to you is to get some help or, if this is for someone else get them help now. It is one of the worst drugs out there to beat . Look up some pictures of what people look like after using meth for a while, there teeth are missing and there face looks like they got beat up everyday and most of them have used less that a year.Just check into the ill effects of Chrystal Meth and you'll see. Nasty.Good luck and clean up now or get the person your writing this for to clean up TODAY!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Long-term methamphetamine abuse results in many damaging effects, including addiction. Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and drug use which is accompanied by functional and molecular changes in the brain. In addition to being addicted to methamphetamine, chronic methamphetamine abusers exhibit symptoms that can include violent behavior, anxiety, confusion, and insomnia. They also can display a number of psychotic features, including paranoia, auditory hallucinations, mood disturbances, and delusions (for example, the sensation of insects creeping on the skin, which is called "formication"). The paranoia can result in homicidal as well as suicidal thoughts.

With chronic use, tolerance for methamphetamine can develop. In an effort to intensify the desired effects, users may take higher doses of the drug, take it more frequently, or change their method of drug intake. In some cases, abusers forego food and sleep while indulging in a form of binging known as a "run," injecting as much as a gram of the drug every 2 to 3 hours over several days until the user runs out of the drug or is too disorganized to continue. Chronic abuse can lead to psychotic behavior, characterized by intense paranoia, visual and auditory hallucinations, and out-of-control rages that can be coupled with extremely violent behavior.

Although there are no physical manifestations of a withdrawal syndrome when methamphetamine use is stopped, there are several symptoms that occur when a chronic user stops taking the drug. These include depression, anxiety, fatigue, paranoia, aggression, and an intense craving for the drug.

In scientific studies examining the consequences of long-term methamphetamine exposure in animals, concern has arisen over its toxic effects on the brain. Researchers have reported that as much as 50 percent of the dopamine-producing cells in the brain can be damaged after prolonged exposure to relatively low levels of methamphetamine. Researchers also have found that serotonin-containing nerve cells may be damaged even more extensively. Whether this toxicity is related to the psychosis seen in some long-term methamphetamine abusers is still an open question.

Answer 4

My cousins son was institutionalized for smoking meth. It fried his brain so bad, he would do crazy things, like walking down the highway in front of his parents house nude. Climbing up in a tree and not wanting to come down, he was nude then too. He would pace all over the place and become agitated over stupid things. I am not sure, but I think he became violent is why they had him put away. He sure looked like he would explode when I saw him pacing in the house one day. So why would anyone want to do this to themselves? Do you even know what is in it?

Answer 5

Brain dead bad future ahead for both you and your family total loss of everything you now know. Total stupidity don't do it you may just like it Good luck If you go down that track you are gonna need it

Answer 6

The teeth fall out......