Meth Has Flu-Fighting Properties

[ro4eva]

Uh oh, I got a bad cough and I'm feeling real weak. Please go pick me up some ice.

 

[DrunkardsDream]

Had meth a couple of times with the flu. Just does a great job at masking it. Gives you the ability to smoke heaps of ciggys and weed then when u come down the flu is 10 times worse.

Yeah I don't buy it either. I have never used crystal meth but it makes the person using it stay awake for days and they go without sleep, don't always eat right or have to force themselves to eat, and get dehydrated and all of these things can effect your immune system and make it so you do get sick with a flu or cold easier or if you are in the process of getting sick you get it worse than if you hadn't used any drugs at all.

I found this information in an article in Newsweek just by looking up "North Korea, meth, medicine."

Inside North Korea, observers say, many use meth in place of expensive and hard-to-obtain medicine. “People with chronic disease take it until they’re addicted,” says one worker for a South Korea-based NGO, who requested anonymity in order to avoid jeopardizing his work with defectors. “They take it for things like cancer. This drug is their sole form of medication,” says the NGO worker, who has interviewed hundreds of defectors in the past three years. A former bicycle smuggler who defected in 2009 told NEWSWEEK of seeing a doctor administering meth to a friend’s sick father. “He took it and could speak well and move his hand again five minutes later. Because of this kind of effect, elderly people really took to this medicine.”