America's Most Dangerous Drug

[Roon]

This is a really good article about the meth epedemic and what we are up against.I have seen this drug destroy a lot of people. Even people who normally wouldn't ever touch drugs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8770112/site/newsweek/

[devilgrrl]

1. I had to put up with my brother when he was using that shit.

Sorry, I have a hard time feeling bad for tweekers.

[OrlandoGator]

2. Alcohol and nicotine are America's most dangerous drugs.

Have been for years. Alcohol kills more people than cocaine, marijuana, herion and crack combined each year.

[NorCalDem]

5. Agreed

thank you for pointing out the truth, yet most untalked about fact about drugs.

[NorCalDem]

6. I like this quote

"The Bush administration has made marijuana the major focus of its anti-drug efforts, both because there are so many users (an estimated 15 million Americans) and because it considers pot a "gateway" to the use of harder substances. 'If we can get a child to 20 without using marijuana, there is a 98 percent chance that the child will never become addicted to any drug,' says White House Deputy Drug Czar Scott Burns"

Oh yeah, then why is the story about a 37 year old mother. She made it well past 20 before she got hooked on meth.

[immoderate]

10. Bogus!

I'll bet that 98 percent of pot users don't get addicted to other drugs either.

--IMM

[eternalburn]

3. Excellent article......

... I read it yesterday and found it very well written.

I speak from personal experience (1989 was a very bad year), Meth is death.

[superconnected]

4. that pic of meth mouth was sick

I didn't know there was such a thing.

eeewww.

[indepat]

7. I'm confused: thought marijuana was the most dangerous thing facing young

people in this country. Wonder where I had heard that.

[Lefty48197]

15. Yup

98% of those that have tried marijuana, even once, go on to become meth addicts. At least if you listen to the dipsh*ts.

[gizmo1979]

8. I really want to know how

someone came up with the ingredients for meth.Well,let's see brake fluid sounds good,alittle anti freeze.I think they were trying to kill someone and it happened to give them an incredible buzz.

[immoderate]

11. I heard the Nazis invented it.

Hitler gave it to the Luftwaffe to keep them awake on long flights.

--IMM

[gizmo1979]

12. For real?

[gizmo1979]

13. I looked it up

all those other chemicals are just to purify the ephedrin I think.
http://www.meth-addiction.org/history-of-meth.htm

[immoderate]

14. I stand corrected.

Won't be the last time.

--IMM

[gizmo1979]

18. you were kinda right.

[Agent Orange]

17. The US drugs it's pilots...

... Grieving Canadians stunned U.S. pilots took drugs
Last Updated Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:27:01

TORONTO - The family of a Canadian soldier killed in a U.S. bomb attack is dumbfounded by reports that American commanders let their pilots fly warplanes while on drugs.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/12/21/clooney_021221

U.S. pilots took amphetamines before 'friendly fire' incident
Last Updated Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:10:20

WASHINGTON - ABC News says it has obtained cockpit voice recordings of the U.S. pilots involved in the "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan that killed four Canadian soldiers and injured eight others. The report also says drugs may have played a role.

The report says both pilots had taken amphetamines about an hour before the incident.

The drugs, commonly known as "go-pills," are standard issue in the U.S. Air Force to help pilots stay awake during long combat missions.

The pilots involved in the "friendly fire" incident, Maj. Harry Schmidt and Maj. William Umbach, say they were told by their superiors they could be found unfit to fly unless they took the pills.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/12/20/friendlyfire021220

"they were told by their superiors they could be found unfit to fly unless they took the pills." !!!

[sweetheart]

9. America's most dangerous drug is unchecked egotism

Everything else is a poor second. Were the most dangerous checked,
no chemical drug would be a threat.

[regnaD kciN]

16. You won't get an argument from me...

At one software company I worked for, one of the other programmers started using meth, and really became psychotic. It got to the point where I might say hello to him as he passed by my office, and he would turn and yell "FUCK YOU!" at me, storm off, and start packing up his belongings because he could not work in a place with such harrassment. We would be in meetings, and he would suddenly go off and start ripping everyone else, then storm out. He once refused to release a game engine to my project until I had signed a statement (without having looked at the code, needless to say) admitting that his engine was perfect and that any problems in implementing it would be due to my own incompetence rather than anything he had done wrong. He also thought that drug dealers had built a tunnel under his house and were going to break in, and so he wanted a handgun to defend himself. Needless to say, at that moment, all my fellow employees started thinking about getting their own handguns to defend themselves from him. Finally, he flipped out entirely, stopped coming to work, and disappeared with one of our computers containing all the code for which we had already paid him. Our owner and one project's producer actually had to track him down, bounty-hunter style, corner him at a cheap motel where he was hiding, apparently from his new girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, and force him to return our equipment. In case you couldn't guess, most of his resulting code turned out to be gibberish, and had to be re-written from scratch.

Why didn't he just get fired? Our owner was a compassionate sort, and thought he could "help" him out of his problems. Needless to say, once meth-head had cleaned up and re-established himself as a game programmer, he gave a long, bitter on-line interview where he essentially blasted everyone at our company, and especially the owner who tried to help him, for being unworthy of being in the industry. :eyes: