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How teenager lost five months of memories under the thrall of ice
HOURS after her latest ice binge, Jess looked down at her new phone and frowned.
The date on the screen read October 21, 2011.
But the teenager was convinced it was only May.
She twisted in her chair, turned to her boyfriend and said: "No way, this isn’t working properly’’.
But when she turned on the nightly news, the awful truth smacked her in the face: ice had robbed her of five months of memories, of a life that had flashed by in a dull haze of smoke.
And the drug was threatening to steal her future.
The straight-A student, a sweet 16 stunner, had become addicted to one of the most destructive drugs around.
Her decline began after mixing the wrong crowd with softer drugs like cannabis.
Then one night, four years ago, she was sitting in a circle at a squalid junkie house with people twice her age when one passed her a glass pipe packed with crystal meth.
“Are you sure you want to do this?’’ asked her older drug dealer boyfriend.
“Yeah, I’m up for anything. I don’t care what it is, I’ll do it,’’ she said, before having her first, long toke.
The effect was instant. She dropped to the floor. Her eyes widened. A look of shock crossed her face, and she passed out.
Ice, the highly addictive drug which shows no prejudice, had won its newest victim.
It made her feel prettier, smarter, stronger, and Jess immediately wanted more.
For the first two days, she floated in dream world, believing she could be a ballerina, a firefighter, the Prime Minister ... anything was possible.
She stared at herself in the mirror for five hours straight, losing track of time and space.
But she hadn’t counted on the ferocity of the comedown.
“It was hell. I promised myself I’d never feel like that again. I just want to go back to that magic land,’’ she says.
The bright brunette thought she had found her perfect escape from personal issues.
SCHOOLS FLAG DRUG TESTS AS ICE HITS
METH IS PRISONERS’ DRUG OF CHOICE
For months she lived in the filthy Breaking Bad-style junkie house, smoking by candlelight in the former doctor’s surgery, using a bath and a bucket as a toilet.
Junkies would drop in on the way home from school pick-up, forgetting about their kids in the car as they smoked.
“You sweat like a pig on ice,” says Jess, who would break into her mother’s house through the manhole just to have a shower.
She forgot to eat for weeks on end, smoked ice every day to avoid the comedown, and barely slept.
At times, she felt suicidal, and planned her own death.
“One minute you’d be thinking of ending your life, the next you’d be taking a smiley selfie — it messes with you that much,’’ she says.
When the free drugs ran out, the high school dropout and her boyfriend turned to crime to feed their $1500-a-week habit.
She’d rob the local 7-Eleven, fake study to get Centrelink payments, steal milk, clothes and food, and brutally attack strangers and loved ones with fists and knives.
She winces as she remembers staging a burglary at her mother’s house, stealing jewellery and pawning it off.
“I think of that person now and can’t believe it was me,’’ she says.
The weight slipped off her and she became gaunt, dehydrated and malnourished.
During one hospital visit, as she lay hooked up to a drip, a doctor warned her organs would start to fail if she didn’t start to eat — and she could die.
Even the other junkies were worried about the girl whose round cheeks had hollowed, teeth were decaying and skin was greying.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...he-thrall-of-ice/story-fni0fit3-1227183802723
HOURS after her latest ice binge, Jess looked down at her new phone and frowned.
The date on the screen read October 21, 2011.
But the teenager was convinced it was only May.
She twisted in her chair, turned to her boyfriend and said: "No way, this isn’t working properly’’.
But when she turned on the nightly news, the awful truth smacked her in the face: ice had robbed her of five months of memories, of a life that had flashed by in a dull haze of smoke.
And the drug was threatening to steal her future.
The straight-A student, a sweet 16 stunner, had become addicted to one of the most destructive drugs around.
Her decline began after mixing the wrong crowd with softer drugs like cannabis.
Then one night, four years ago, she was sitting in a circle at a squalid junkie house with people twice her age when one passed her a glass pipe packed with crystal meth.
“Are you sure you want to do this?’’ asked her older drug dealer boyfriend.
“Yeah, I’m up for anything. I don’t care what it is, I’ll do it,’’ she said, before having her first, long toke.
The effect was instant. She dropped to the floor. Her eyes widened. A look of shock crossed her face, and she passed out.
Ice, the highly addictive drug which shows no prejudice, had won its newest victim.
It made her feel prettier, smarter, stronger, and Jess immediately wanted more.
For the first two days, she floated in dream world, believing she could be a ballerina, a firefighter, the Prime Minister ... anything was possible.
She stared at herself in the mirror for five hours straight, losing track of time and space.
But she hadn’t counted on the ferocity of the comedown.
“It was hell. I promised myself I’d never feel like that again. I just want to go back to that magic land,’’ she says.
The bright brunette thought she had found her perfect escape from personal issues.
SCHOOLS FLAG DRUG TESTS AS ICE HITS
METH IS PRISONERS’ DRUG OF CHOICE
For months she lived in the filthy Breaking Bad-style junkie house, smoking by candlelight in the former doctor’s surgery, using a bath and a bucket as a toilet.
Junkies would drop in on the way home from school pick-up, forgetting about their kids in the car as they smoked.
“You sweat like a pig on ice,” says Jess, who would break into her mother’s house through the manhole just to have a shower.
She forgot to eat for weeks on end, smoked ice every day to avoid the comedown, and barely slept.
At times, she felt suicidal, and planned her own death.
“One minute you’d be thinking of ending your life, the next you’d be taking a smiley selfie — it messes with you that much,’’ she says.
When the free drugs ran out, the high school dropout and her boyfriend turned to crime to feed their $1500-a-week habit.
She’d rob the local 7-Eleven, fake study to get Centrelink payments, steal milk, clothes and food, and brutally attack strangers and loved ones with fists and knives.
She winces as she remembers staging a burglary at her mother’s house, stealing jewellery and pawning it off.
“I think of that person now and can’t believe it was me,’’ she says.
The weight slipped off her and she became gaunt, dehydrated and malnourished.
During one hospital visit, as she lay hooked up to a drip, a doctor warned her organs would start to fail if she didn’t start to eat — and she could die.
Even the other junkies were worried about the girl whose round cheeks had hollowed, teeth were decaying and skin was greying.
Continued with more pics and text and user comments -
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...he-thrall-of-ice/story-fni0fit3-1227183802723
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