Methamphetamine, or meth, also known as “speed,” “crystal,” “crank,” “ice,” or “tina,” is a potent psycho (mental)-stimulant that can be taken as pills, snorted, injected or smoked.
There is much speculation about the problem of meth abuse and its origins. Some believe it started after World War II, and probably it did. It is used in diet pills and various other medications to help resolve issues of insufficient energy to perform a day’s work. Things such as asthma medication contain ephedrine which is one of the constituents of meth and, during the last two decades, more prevalently and possibly the main culprit contributing to such an enormous jump in the meth abuse statistics, is the commonly prescribed ADHD meds.
The problem with ADHD meds is that youngsters have access to and become drug dealers at a very young age, selling their “speed” to friends and school mates so the problem of addiction is starting at an extremely young age, right in the school grounds. All they have to do is crush the tablets and ingest them in any of the ways, previously mentioned. The result in the...