No, it's pretty true in many ways. Methamphetamine is a fucking serious drug. I hammered it for a couple of years over a decade ago, and i can tell you that it can create some of the most crazed depravity, insanity and addiction i've ever witnessed or indulged in under its influence that i have ever seen caused by drugs.
It's not just hype. I know people who work in emergency rooms, and (as meth is everywhere in australia) see some of the shit meth caused people. It is one of the few mass drug panics that is actually fairly accurate at times.
It can really fuck with your mental health; trust me.
And i've only ever had a few grams of 3fpm, but it seems quite similar in many ways - with a few dissimilatities too - to methamphetamine.
Personally while i had some fun taking meth, it ultimately turned a fair few folks ii knew, into very different people (and never in a good way).
Stims to me are pretty high up the list of "drugs that damage my mental health and my life, but feel so good i don't realise - or care - how much they are messing me up".
But yeah, 3fpm is really similar feeling. Maybe 3fpm has even more of a drawn-out of 3fpm (anyone else get CEV for a day or two on the tail end of a bit of a binge?).
Weird shit.
I would suspect similar risks involved in both drugs...but meth has at least been thoroughly tested (and used in medicine).