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: 19
Gender: Female
Location: Kalispell, MT
"I used to do meth. This June will be my first year of sobriety. I first started two summers ago. I had my first hit. It was crazy because I came down about 7 days later and I realized I hadn't slept at all or eaten anything. I had just smoked meth again and again until our sack ran out. That was the longest I had stayed up during my time of using, but still I would stay up for 4,5 and 6 days at a time. I lost 43 pounds in 60 days. I thought I looked beautiful but when I look at pictures from that time, I was hideous. I stole a lot of things from my family. It was so hard to get sober. I went out of the country for a few months and didn't use at all. But then the first day I returned home, I saw my friends, and bought more meth, and smoked it and snorted it for another 6 months. I am sober now but I have nightmares still, and cravings. Meth is always in the back of my mind. It's haunting. When new people ask me what it was like being addicted, I just shake my head and say 'Please trust me, don't try it, not even once. When I had my first hit, I just forgot I didn't want to be a meth-head.'"
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