drug addicts?

Question by Mark J: drug addicts?
Can someone give me a general breakdown of the physical and mental behavior of long AND short term crack and meth addicts, thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by Kurina K
Short Term and Long Term Effects

Physical Symptoms:

Severe weight loss – sometimes up to 50 – 100 pounds.

Rotting teeth – teeth may first turn gray, then black; gum disease brought on by constriction of the gums’ blood vessels can cause loss of teeth.

Body odor – user loses interest in personal hygiene. The chemicals used to manufacture meth are excreted through the perspiration and emit a bad smell.

Scars and open sores – hallucinations cause the user to scratch or gouge at imaginary “bugs.” The body also releases histamines which causes itching.

Inability to sleep for hours or days, followed by severe agitation and a sedated crash lasting many hours or for days.

Psychological/Behavioral Symptoms:

Due to the drug’s ability to overwhelm and over-stimulate the users’ nervous system, chronic meth users may experience any or all of the following:

Initial euphoria – a feeling of great happiness or well-being; bliss.

Depression – feelings of sadness, dejection.

Delusion – a false belief held as a result of self-deception mental disorder.

Psychosis – a severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by deterioration of normal intellectual and social functioning and by withdrawal from reality.

Paranoia – a chronic psychosis characterized by delusions of persecution or of grandeur.

Violence – physical force exerted to violate, damage, or abuse.

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