Are Your Neighbors Making Methamphetamines?

Have you gone to the pharmacy lately and had to show your ID in order to buy a simple bottle of Sudafed? Well, your not alone. The FDA has placed regulations on how much we can buy due to the alarming increase in "meth" labs in the United States. Methamphetamine is a highly addictive central nervous system stimulant. Methamphetamine in produced domestically or imported into the United States already processed, however, more and more Americans are producing meth right in their own homes. You think that sounds scary? Well, it is scary, but so is the effects the drug has on users of the drug.

Methamphentamine users range anywhere from students, high school and college age, and white and blue collar workers, both men and women, and athletes. Athletes and students sometimes begin using methamphetamines due to the heightened mental and physical performance the drug produces. The drug stimulates the central nervous system and it's effects can last anywhere from four to 24 hours. Methamphetamine is highly addictive due to it's initial pleasurable effects, then later leaves an individual feeling depressed in which the user seeks more in order to return to "normal".

The individual who is addicted to methamphetamines are among the most difficult to treat. If treated successfully, it is highly likely the user will relapse. The user will go through extreme withdrawal symptoms like extreme irritability, depression, loss of energy, shaking, nausea, palpitations, sweating, excessive appetite, and hyperventilation. Methamphetamines can kill by causing heart failure, brain damage, stroke, and causes psychological changes that can result in suicide.

If you suspect a loved one is using methamphetamines, some signs and symptoms are nervousness, anxiousness, excessive talking, moodiness and irritability, repetitious behavior like picking at the skin or pulling at hair, aggressive or violent behavior, sleep disturbances, and severe depression.