REAL STORIES
"With chronic use, tolerance for meth 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."
National Drug Intelligence Center, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Location: Los Angeles
"My son used meth for a rather brief time under a year after a devastating break-up with his girlfriend. Not knowing the signs of a user, by the time we tried to help he was so paranoid that he didn't even trust us. Long story short... he became severely depressed, took a gun to a bar, shot randomly in the empty parking lot, led the police on a chase, ditched his car, shot at the police helicopter and missed, threatened to shoot himself in front of the police, was arrested, charged with attempted murder of a police officer, now serving 17 years in prison. His only previous encounter with police was drunk in public and he only spent the night in jail. What a wake-up call!"
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