I'm not sure I agree with your linking medically supervised patients using methamphetamine to aquired psychosis. I've looked over the medical references on this pretty closely and haven't found a reference to even one case where problems of this nature have occurred.nephron said:There's a fairly strong link between amphetamine use and psychosis even among people who use it in a relatively sensible fashion (e.g. people who take it as prescribed for A.D.D.)
It doesn't mean that psychosis is an inevitable consequence or anything, but it is likely to trigger psychosis in vulnerable individuals.
*CrystalMeth Bunny* said:Meth Cook #1: At last, we have acquired enough ephedrine to cook 10 pounds of meth a day! If we don't get caught, we'll be rich?
Meth Cook #2: Hey, where should I dump this lye?
Meth Cook #1: Out front. If you see Mrs. Danielson out there, try to see if she's done borrowing all those Pyrex dishes from us.
I don't think anyone has questioned whether methamphetamine manufacture produces toxic waste products. The issue is the safety hazard which such labs pose to the general public. With people operating such labs who are untrained, and have no formal understanding of safe handling and disposal methods (and may not even care if waste products are safely disposed of), just further complicates an already bad situation.kiwikr720 said:I'm not certain why everyone seems to be shocked and amazed that the production of meth is causing an output of such hazardouz chemicals. I no longer have the figure, but for every ounce of meth created, there is a poundage (not sure of the figure) of chemical waste that accompanies it. This is true regardless of whether or not the "chemist" creating it knew what he/she was doing or not. This is also regardless of the purity of the end product.
This is the difference between recreational use and true drug abuse (where one integrates drug use into one's daily life without any intended medical benefit).kiwikr720 said:I am also a former meth user (quite heavy for a time) and can attest to the fact that even if the user eats and sleeps regularly (known as a fuctioning addict) meth use can still exacerbate any preexisting conditions of anxiety and the effects are lasting, the same holding true as with many other chemicals (prescription or not).
Invalid Usename said:[
Even the resulting product coming out of these meth labs proves that they do not know what they are doing. From what I have read, the product anywhere from a 10% to 50% purity level. Which means that between 90% to 50% of their product is impurities (and god only knows what those could be composed of).
Commercial drugs have a consistent high rate of purity (upwards of 99%).
Those facts alone prove that these bath tub drug meth producers don't know what they are doing.
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Invalid Usename said:WRONG! Those are cause by extreme sleep deprivation.
80% purity leaves 20% of contaniments. That is far from the 99 percent purity standard of commercial pharmaceutics industry.troublemaker_420 said:Well, maybe those figures are accurate for your arrea, but I recently read a report about methamphetamine here in our local paper (middle of South Dakota) that stated although meth purity was comparable to the figures you gave a few years ago, much of the meth being seized from users and labs here has been consistently about 80% pure or better. I personally wouldn't know if this is media exaggeration or fact, as i dispise the tweeker lifestyle that many seem to live around here, and swore the stuff off years ago when I first started seeing signs that it was going to be a huge problem in this area for many people. i can't count the number of friends or acquaitences I have seen go to jail/prison for meth related crimes.
No Edvard, it is due to a poor life style decision. Drugs do not make people do things which are contrary to their better self interests, people do themselves.Edvard Munch said:Due to the meth. 8)
Invalid Usename said:It can in an indirect way. People stay up for abnormally long periods of time (which can induce psychotic like symptoms), and then they are dopamine deprived at the same time. Mix those two factors together and it can create a serious distortion in one's perceptions and the way that one reacts to those perceptions.
Were just not built to stay awake for long periods of time. Then you have people who do it for many days in a row and something is going to break down.