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The History of Crystal Methamphetamine:
Amphetamine was found before methamphetamine. It was first created in 1887 in Germany by Romanian chemist Lazăr Edeleanu. It was then called phenylisopropylamine.
In 1919, methamphetamine hydrochloride was manufactured by pharmacologist Akira Ogata viareduction by using red phosphorus and iodine.
Today, methamphetamine is sold under the name Desoxyn.
Facts about Crystal Methamphetamine:
• Crystal methamphetamine lifts the users mood, as well as increases energy levels
• It can last from six to eight hours, and can sometimes last up to twenty-four hours.
• Crystal Meth is a potent neurotoxin.
• The classes within crystal meth are used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity.
• Methamphetamine hydrochloride is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) under the trade name Desoxyn.
Statistics:
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, is about 500 metric tons per year, and there are apparently 24.7 million abusers.
4.5% of American high-school seniors and 4.1% of grade 10 students said they had used crystal meth at least once in their life in 2007
In 2008 roughly 13 million people aged 12 and over have used methamphetamine. Regular users were about 529,000 out of those 13 million
The percentage of rehabilitation admissions due to methamphetamine rose from 3% in 1996 to 9% in 2006.
States such as Hawaii have a higher percentage of people seeking help (48.2%) because of methamphetamine abuse.
Laws in the United States:
The production, distribution, sale, and possession of methamphetamine is illegal in many s...
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Frontline’s “The Meth Epidemic,” is a shocking documentary that exposes the dangerous effects of meth and explores the cultural patterns related to meth addiction. Understanding the severity of the effects of meth and how it is made are two important lessons to take away from this video because understanding those two things will help us to better understand how to combat this epidemic. Two effects of meth addiction are an increase in property crimes and an increase in the number of children entering foster care. Shockingly, half of the inmates in Portland jails were meth users, and meth addicts commit 80% of the property crimes in Oregon. These statistics show how meth can not only negatively affect an individual and a family, but a whole community.
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among gangs, etc. The outcome of being addicted to crystal meth for to long will lead to death. This
Crystal meth is a sub-category of amphetamine. Amphetamines are synthetic amines- which are similar to the body's neurotransmitter: norepinehrine and the hormone epinephrine (adrenaline). Amphetamines stimulate the reticular activating system. This activation is transmitted to all parts if the brain. This process causes the user to become aroused, alert and hypersensitive to stimuli- such as sun light.
Drug use and abuse is as old as mankind itself. Human beings have always had a desire to eat or drink substances that make them feel relaxed, stimulated, or euphoric. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. But it was not until the nineteenth century that the active substances in drugs were extracted. There was a time in history when some of these newly discovered substances, such as morphine, laudanum, cocaine, were completely unregulated and prescribed freely by physicians for a wide variety of ailments.
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Methamphetamine is said to have first made its appearance in the United States as early as World War II (Anglin, Burke, Perrochet, Stamper, & Dawud-Noursi, 2000). It was given to soldiers and pilots to increase their endurance as well as their attentiveness. Roughly two decades later, a liquid form of methamphetamine became available for the treatment of heroin addiction. It wasn’t until the 1990’s where it really began to be a problem. In trailer parks across Oregon, methamphetamine abuse was at an all-time high (Byker, 2011). By 2003, meth had begun spreading throughout the United States as the number of reports of meth labs increased from as far east as Florida.
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The use of illegal drugs in the United States is considered by some to be the biggest problem in our society. Over 40% of high school seniors use some kind of illegal drug, and in a recent 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse showed that the three most common drugs are Marijuana used by 11,100,000 people, Cocaine used by 1,500,000 people, and inhalants that is used by 991,000 people nationwide.