Methamphetamine: The Catastrophic Impact on Individuals and Communities

Meth is all over where I live, but I have never had experience with it personally. While watching all the video clips, I now understand why so many people are addicted and what fuels their need for the drug. Unfortunately, meth grabs ahold of people and helps them ruin their lives. The lose jobs, become homeless, lose their families, get their children taken away, commit crimes, have run in with the cops, and even die. But that’s what we see on the outside, meth also ruins the users brain and thought process. How can something do so much damage to a person and their community? It starts by entering the blood stream, where it gets into your brain. From there it releases large amounts of dopamine and then blocks how your body naturally recycles

They did what it took to get it not caring at the moment how they got it. One lady said it started off at petty theft in the beginning, and then escalated into assault with a deadly weapon. Everything she said she would never do, she ended up doing to get high. When you’re an addict, it starts out with a trigger, then it turns into the thought of it, and cravings come. The craving gets strong and stronger until it is satisfied, leaving addicts doing irrational to make the craving go away. What once was a little problem becomes a big problem. So big that it causes the addict to do whatever it takes to make the craving go away and the high to persist, not caring about the

This mount includes but not limited to, social services, jail time, rehab, and production costs. When meth is in the community crime rates go up, unemployment goes up, homelessness goes up, and it is just a little scary to walk down the street as a meth addict is hallucinating at what they think they see and hear. 20 to 50% of jail time is due to meth related crimes. The longer the use the harder it is to get high because it ruins your happy receptors in your brain. This causes difficulties because the addicts have to do more to get the high they need to feel good again. They have no source of income and meth is not free, communities suffer because of their