Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine
It is not just in party and club enviroments methamphetamine can be ingested. Some start to use it as slender means, or they take small doses to keep any longer on the job. However, methamphetamine is an unpredictable material, where even small doses can lead to severe poisoning.

Methamphetamine is chemically related to amphetamine, but the effects of methamphetamine are more potent, it lasts longer and is more harmful to the central nervous system. Like amphetamine, methamphetamine can be taken as tablets, powder or dissolved in a liquid by mouth, it can be injected, smoked or the Sniff.

– Other names for methamphetamine are crystal, ice, glass – a crystallized transparent variant, metamakka and strong startled croak. Moreover, many own, very local name for methamphetamine, “said David Spjøtvold, project manager at the Land League against substance abuse.

Damage to the brain
According to Public Health can be difficult to distinguish between the effects of amphetamine and methamphetamine. Among the acute effects are high mood, increased psychomotor speed, increased talkative, high self-esteem, increased body temperature, restlessness, nervousness, dizziness and alertness.

The brief “rush” with the well-being feeling can last from 20 minutes to 12 hours, but according to Medscape could take two days before a dose has come out of the body system.

Using methamphetamine increases the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction and cardiac arrhythmias that can lead to death. A common complication among metamfetaminbrukere is “mouth meth”, where abuse and side effects of the abuse leads to tooth decay and become damaged. The injury of the brain that is caused methamphetamine, can be compared with the damage caused by Alzheimer’s, stroke and epilepsy.

Gives new HIV epidimi
According to the National Institute Wed Drug Abuse (NIDA) in the U.S., recent studies among chronic methamphetamine abusers, serious structural and functional changes in parts of the brain associated with emotions and memory. Some believe they can say anything about the many emotional and cognitive problems methamphetamine-abusers get. Abuse can also damage the dopamine and serotonin production in the brain (nerve signal substances). When these are destroyed, we lose the ability to feel good.

Among the long-term effects NIDA refers to is paranoia, aggression, excessive anorexia, memory loss, visual and auditory hallucinations, delusions and severe dental problems.

Another effect of methamphetamine (crystal meth) is that sex drive increased dramatically. This has led to a new HIV epidemic in the U.S., because users also do not care about practicing safe sex.

Unpredictable
National Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS) writes that the seizure of amphetamine and methamphetamine amounted to approx. 22 percent of the total drug seizure in Norway in 2005. The large number of seizures of methamphetamine are seen as fairly specifically in a European context. The number of seizures has tripled since 2001. A survey from 2004 shows that about. four percent of youth between 15 and 20 years in Norway report having tried amphetamines.

Methamphetamine quickly leads to addiction, and the material is considered to be unpredictable. Sometimes it can go well with a large dose, while other times, even very small doses cause serious poisoning.

In the U.S., use of methamphetamine seen as a growing epidemic, and in 2005 they considered that approximately 10.2 million Americans over 12 years had tried methamphetamine at least once. However, targeted campaigns against the use of methamphetamine has led to the now seeing a significant decline in the use of methamphetamine in the United States.

Store methamphetamine self
Part of the reason for the popularity is that it is relatively easy and inexpensive to manufacture the drug, such that methamphetamine can be produced in small illicit laboratories. In January 2007 we had an example in Norway where a young boy died after using what police believed was methamphetamine. The substance had been produced by a recipe found on the Internet. Doctors at the hospital to tell the media that they had done all they could but that there were no antidote that could save the young boy.

– I am totally convinced that there will be some who make methamphetamine into Norway. I do not think we have some great production here, but that some stock to local or personal use, that I think. Methamphetamine is relatively easy to make for someone who has some knowledge of chemistry, but they must also have access to raw materials and could be worse.The raw materials are not considered drugs, but it is nevertheless illegal drugs too. In Norway we get most of the methamphetamine from the Netherlands and Eastern Europe. Often we get it into the country via Sweden, says Spjøtvold.

Revealed by the fires and explosions
Production of methamphetamine is not only dangerous to those who later substance abuse.During the presentation, it is used highly combustible substances which may cause fire or explosions. Not just those in the laboratory is in danger then, but neighbors can be put in danger. In the United States is precisely such fires and explosions are not rare reason, methamphetamine laboratories revealed. Those who manufacture methamphetamine are often harmed by hazardous gases during production.

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