Methamphetamine is a powerful form of amphetamines that comes in clear crystals or powder and easily dissolves in water/alcohol. It is often made in illegal laboratories with inexpensive and readily available ingredients. THESE INGREDIENTS INLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

  • Drain Cleaner
  • Battery Acid
  • Antifreeze

STREET LINGO:

  • 222
  • Agua
  • Albino poo
  • Alffy
  • All tweakend long
  • Anny
  • Anything going on
  • Bache knock
  • Bache rock
  • bag chasers
  • baggers
  • Barney Dope
  • batak
  • Bato
  • bato
  • batu kilat
  • batu or batunas
  • batuwhore
  • beegokes
  • bianca
  • bikerdope
  • Billy
  • bitch
  • biznack blanco
  • Blizzard
  • Blue acid
  • blue funk
  • bomb
  • booger
  • boorit-cebuano
  • boo-yah
  • Brian Ed
  • buff stick
  • bugger sugar
  • buggs
  • bumos
  • buzzard dust
  • caca
  • candy
  • cankinstien
  • CC
  • chach
  • cha-cha-cha
  • chalk
  • chalk dust
  • chank
  • cheebah
  • cheese
  • chickin flippin
  • chikin or chicken
  • chingadera
  • chittle chizel
  • chiznad
  • choad
  • clavo
  • coco
  • coffee
  • cube
  • Debbie
  • devil dust
  • devil's dandruff
  • Devil's drug
  • dingles
  • dirt
  • dirty
  • dizzy-D
  • D-Monic
  • D
  • do da
  • doody
  • doo-my-lau
  • dope
  • Drano
  • Dummy Dust
  • dyno
  • epimethrine
  • epod
  • eraser dust
  • Ethyl-M
  • Evil Yellow
  • Fatch
  • fedrin
  • fil-layed
  • fizz wizz
  • gackle-a fackle-a
  • gak
  • gas
  • gear or get geared up
  • gemini
  • glass
  • go
  • go fast
  • go-ey
  • go-go
  • go-go juice
  • gonzales
  • goop
  • got anything
  • grit
  • gumption
  • gyp
  • Haiwaiian Salt
  • Hank
  • high speed chicken feed
  • highthen
  • hillbilly crack
  • hippy crack
  • homework
  • hoo
  • Horse Mumpy
  • Hydro
  • hypes
  • ice
  • ice cream
  • Icee
  • ish
  • izice
  • jab
  • jasmine
  • Jenny Crank Program
  • jetfuel
  • jib
  • jib nugget
  • jinga
  • juddha
  • juice
  • junk
  • kibble
  • killer
  • KooLAID
  • Kryptonite
  • laundry detergent
  • lemon drop
  • life
  • lily
  • Linda
  • lost weekend
  • love
  • low
  • Lucille
  • M Man
  • magic
  • meth
  • meth monsters
  • methaine
  • meth-and-friend
  • meth-and-friends-of-mine
  • methanfelony
  • methartrim
  • methmood
  • method
  • nazi dop
  • ne
  • newday
  • No Doze
  • nose candy
  • on a good one
  • Patsie
  • Peaking
  • Peanut butter
  • peel dope
  • phazers
  • phets
  • philopn
  • pieta
  • pink
  • poison
  • poop
  • poop'd out
  • poor man's cocaine
  • pootananny
  • powder
  • powder monkeys
  • powder point
  • project propellant
  • puddle
  • pump
  • Q'd
  • quick
  • quill
  • rachet jaw
  • rails
  • rank
  • redneck heroin
  • Richie Rih
  • rip
  • rock
  • rocket fuel
  • rocky mountain high
  • rosebud
  • Rudy's
  • rumdumb
  • running pizo
  • sack
  • Sam's Sniff
  • Sarahs
  • Satan Dust
  • scante
  • scap
  • schlep rock
  • Scooby snax
  • scud
  • scwadge
  • shab
  • shabang
  • shabs
  • shabu
  • shamers
  • shards
  • shit
  • shiznack
  • sciznac or shiznastica
  • shiznit
  • shiznitty
  • shizzo
  • shnizzie snort
  • shwack
  • skeech
  • sketch
  • ski
  • skitz
  • sky rocks
  • sliggers
  • smiley smile
  • Smurf Dope
  • smzl
  • snaps
  • sniff
  • snow
  • space food
  • spaceman
  • spagack
  • spraracked
  • sparked
  • sparkle
  • speed racer
  • spin
  • spinack
  • Spindarella
  • spinney boo
  • spinning
  • spishak
  • spook
  • sprack
  • sprizzlefracked
  • sprung
  • Spun Ducky Woo
  • squawk
  • stallar
  • sto-pid
  • styels
  • sugar
  • sweetness
  • swerve
  • syabu
  • ta'doww
  • talkie
  • Tasmanian Devil
  • tenner
  • the new prozac
  • the white house
  • tina or teena
  • rish(shit backwards)
  • tobats
  • toots
  • torqued
  • trippi trip
  • tubbytoast
  • tutu
  • twack
  • twacked out
  • tweak tweedle doo
  • tweek
  • tweezwasabi
  • twiz
  • twizacked
  • ugly dust
  • vanilla pheromones
  • wake
  • way
  • we-we-we
  • whacked
  • white bitch
  • white ink
  • white junk
  • white lady
  • white pony(ridin' the white pony)
  • white
  • who-ha
  • wigg
  • xaing
  • yaaba
  • YAMA
  • yammer bammer
  • yank
  • yankee
  • yay
  • yead out
  • yellow barn
  • zingin
  • zip
  • zoiks
  • zoom

WHAT IS IT?

Methamphetamine(meth)is an exteremly addictive stimulant drug that strongly activates certain systems in the brain. Chemically, it's closely replated to the drug amphetamine, but the central nervous system effecrs of meth are greater. DEPENDECE OCCURS FAST

  • Even small doses of meth can increase wakefulness and physical activity and decrease appetite
  • a brief 'rush' is reported by those who smoke or inject meth
  • oral ingestion or snorting produces a long-lasting high instead of a rush, which reportedly can continue for as long as HALF A DAY
  • both 'rush' and 'high' are believed to result from the release of very HIGH LEVELS of the neurotransmitter dopamine into areas o the brain that regulate feelings of pleasure
  • Meth has toxic effects
  • In a study, on animals, a single high dose of the drug has been shown to damage nerve terminals in the dopamine-containing regions of the brain
  • High doses can elevate body temperature to dangerous, sometimes LETHAL levels, as well as cause convulsions.

**The withdrawal symptoms, ESPECIALLY the depression & physical AGONY, are reported to be WORSE than HEROIN or COCAINE, and often addicts WILL DROP OUT of recovery programs

 

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

  • Usually clear-to-white crystalline substances
  • this is where the nickname 'crystal' comes from, because of it's apperance
  • In a way meth looks like sea-salt crystals
  • Color VARIES, depending on its purity and method of manufacture
  • In the CHEAPEST & MOST TOXIC form called 'crank', the drug takes on VARYING SHADES OF GREASY-BROWN, sometimes with BLACK FLECKS
  • ICE is a very pure form of the drug, it is clear or transparent in apperance, closely resembling ROCK SALT

ICE:

WHAT IS IT?

  • Ice is a slang term for a very pure, smokeable form of methamphetamine.
  • It is an EXTEMELY ADDICTIVE STIMULANT.

 

RAW INGREDIENTS:

  • over-the-counter cold remedies
  • batteries
  • brake cleaner
  • farm fertilizer
  • drain opner

 

SECURING THE CHEMICALS TO MAKE METH:

  • As tactics to fight meth evolve, so do the tatics to secure the chemicals needed to make it.
  • 'Cooks' have begun using two new ingredients: SALT BLOCKS which contain ephedrine(inteded for sick farm animals) & ELECTRIC POLE POWER TRANSFORMERS, which are sometimes knocked down and cannibalized for chemical replacement for anhydrous ammonia.
  • Frequently, power outages must now be investigated as possible drug manufacturing activity

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

  • Almost clear crystal chunks-like ice, or rock  salt. When crushed, the drug is white and powdery

HOW IS IT USED?

  • Smoked
  • Snorted
  • Injected
  • Sometimes swallowed
  • Sometimes rectally absorbed

 

METH ADDITICTION

Meth tears of beautiful faces causing people that are in their 20s to look 60 or 70. It puts indentions in the face, creates terrible acne, wrinkles the face, and drops the eyelids. It makes a beautiful star go from glam to wham. Nothing tears up a face like meth does, no other drug, no skin cream, no knife can do what meth can do to the face. To show you what I mean by this, there are some pictures below, please look at them and see exactly what i'm talking about.

 

STATISTICS

  • During 1999 4.3% (9.4 MILLION people) of the US population reported trying methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • The highest rate of meth use was among the 18-25 age group with 5.2% of them reporting lifetime meth use during 1999.
  • Meth lab seizures have gone up since 1995.
  • Statistics over the past few years show Oklahoma among the nations leader in Meth labs, arrest, addiction, and cases
  • 1994 the Drug Enforcement Administration seized 63 meth labs. That figure climbed to 879 in 1996 and 1,627 in 1998.
  • Meth numbers also indicate the drug has yet to make it to the East Coast
  • Cities such as Oklahoma and Omaha have worse meth problems than New York City or Detroit.
  • In the Midwest, meth accounts for nearly 90% of all drug cases, and nowhere is it more prevalent than in Oklahome, which ranks in the top FIVE in almost every meth category.
  • Meth is surpassing cocaine as the drug of choice in Oklahoma.
  • The state medical examiner's office reports the number of death cases testing positive for meth have been higher than cocaine for the past THREE years.
  • The office also reports meth is found in more cases of homicides, and motor vehicle accidents.
  • The estimated cost of making meth is $100 an ounce, with a street value of $800 an ounce.
  • While cheap for the people who make it, meth is costly for taxpayers.
  • The OSBI estimates that it costs an average of $2,000 to clean up a lab.
  • Many law enforcement agencies including the OSBI contract out for cleaning services.
  • The OSBI spent $1 MILLION on cleaning services each year.
  • The courts have felt the effects of the meth invasion, with several distinct courts overloaded with cases. Many are being dropped because of delays in meth testing at state laboratories.
  • Both the legislature and federal government have increased funding to prosecute meth manufacturers.
  • Methamphetamine's high lasts for 6 to 12 hours, and 50% of the drug is removed from the body in 12 hours.
  • Meth's street value is approx. $3,000 PER POUND.
  • Meth is a highly addictive drug that can be manufactured by using products commercially avaliable anywhere in the US.

METHAMPHETAMINE TREND STATISTICS ACROSS THE US:

**methamphetamine trends across the US are indicators of the rate of methamphetamine ABUSE, methamphetamine ADDICTION, domestic violence, and child abuse. The methamphetamine trends for each state has a direct correlation to the amount of methamphetamine SEIZED by federal authorities. Below are the federal methamphetamine SEIZURES for each individual state. These statistics for each state's federal methamphetamine SEIZURES provides current information on which states have the LARGEST methamphetamine TRAFFICING problem**

  • Alabama Federal Methamphetamine Seizures: 17.2 kgs
  • Arizona " " ": 168.6 kgs
  • Arkansas " " ": 9.2 kgs
  • California " " ": 1,282.3 kgs
  • Colorado " " ": 54 kgs
  • Connecticut " " ": 0 kgs
  • Delaware " " ": 0.3 kgs
  • Florida " " ": 87.0 kgs
  • Georgia " " ": 77.4 kgs
  • Idaho " " ": 15.6 kgs
  • Illinois " " ": 87.0 kgs
  • Indiana " " ": 31.4 kgs
  • Iowa " " ": 79.7 kgs
  • Kansas " " ": 17.5 kgs
  • Kentucky " " ": 5.0 kgs
  • Louisiana " " ": 1.7 kgs
  • Maine " " ": 0 kgs
  • Maryland " " ": 0.4 kgs
  • Massachusetts " " ": 0 kgs
  • Michigan " " ": 2.1 kgs
  • Minnesota " " ": 2.1 kgs
  • Missouri " " ": 14.8 kgs
  • Montana " " ": 3.4 kgs
  • Nebraska " " ": 48.3 kgs
  • Nevada " " ": 45.0 kgs
  • New Hampshire " " ": 0 kgs
  • New Jersey " " ": 0.2 kgs
  • New Mexico " " ": 31.0 kgs
  • New York " " ": 12.3 kgs
  • North Carolina " " ": 18.0 kgs
  • North Dakota " " ": 5.0 kgs
  • Ohio " " ": 1.3 kgs
  • Oklahoma " " ": 14.4 kgs
  • Oregon " " ": 54.0 kgs
  • Pennsylvania " " ": 1.4 kgs
  • Rhode Island " " ": 0 kgs
  • South Carolina " " ": 4.6 kgs
  • South Dakota " " ": 3.5 kgs
  • Tennessee " " ": 29.5 kgs
  • Texas " " ": 451.9 kgs
  • Utah " " ": 6.6 kgs
  • Virginia " " ": 19.1 kgs
  • Washington " " ": 46.0 kgs
  • West Virginia " " ": 0.5 kgs
  • Wisconsin " " ": 16.8 kgs
  • Wyoming " " ": 13.2 kgs

MORE STATISTICS

  • Methamphetamine use as recorded by SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) includes both prescription preparations(i.e. Desoxyn, & Methedrine) and non-prescription/illicit methamphetamine. OTC drugs are not included. Methamphetamine data are collected as part of the NSDUH module on nonmedical use of prescription-type stimulants.
  • The number of persons who used methamphetamine for the first time in the prior 12 months did not differ significantly between 2002 (299,000 persons) and 2004 (318,000 persons) but did decrease significantly between 2004 and 2005, and estimated 318,000 persons aged 12 or older first tried methamphetamine in the year prior to the survey compared with 192,000 persons in 2005.
  • Combined data from the annual National Survey on Drug use and Health from 2002 to 2005 were used to examine demographic differences in methamphetamine use. Persons in large metropolitan areas (0.5%) were less likely to have used meth in the past year than those in small metropolitan areas (0.7%) and in non-metropolitan areas (0.8%).
  • Higher rates of past year meth use were found in the West (1.2%) than in the Midwest (0.5%), South (0.5%), and Northeast (0.1%) for the total population aged 12 or older.
  • Because of small sample sizes and small prevalence, sometimes variables (such as methamphetamine use by states) need to be analyzed with pooled data (that is, data combined from several years in order to get a reliable estimate). Therefore, this report is based on STATE LEVEL DATA COMBINED FROM 4 YEARS OF DATA, i.e. from the 2002 & 2005 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health. DATA ARE ANNUALIZED ESTIMATES, THAT IS, AN AVERAGE PER YEAR ESTIMATE IS CALCULATED FROM THE COMBINED DATA YEARS. **this is the information provided below**
  • 2002-2005, an estimated 1.4 million persons (0.6% of the population) aged 12 or older use meth in the past year.
  • Rates of past year meth use were highest in Nevada (2%), Montana(1.5%), & Wyoming (1.5%).
  • The lowest rate of past year meth use was about 0.1% and was found in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, & New York.
  • For youth aged 12 to 17, rates of past year meth use were among the highest in South Dakota (2.3%), Montana (2.2%), North Dakota(1.6%), & Wyoming (1.6%).
  • Meth use was lowest among youths aged 12 to 17 was youth in the District of Columbia (0.1%), New York (0.2%), & Maryland (0.2%).
  • Young adults aged 18 to 25 were the most likely to use meth in the past year.
  • For adults aged 18 to 25, rates of past year meth use were among the highest in Wyoming (4.6%), Arkansas (4.4%), Minnesota (3.8%), & Nevada (3.8%).
  • Meth use was the lowest among young adults aged 18 to 25 in New York (0.3%), Connecticut (0.4%), & Vermont (0.4%).

MORE STATISTICS

  • Meth use as recorded by SAMHSA'S National Survey on Drug Use and Health includes both prescription preparations (ie Desoxyn & Methedrine) and non-prescription/illict meth.
  • In 2004, an estimated 1.4 million persons aged 12 or older had used meth in the past year, 600,000 persons had used meth in the past month.
  • Although the number of past year & past month meth use did not change between 2002 and 2004, the number of past month meth users who met criteria for abuse or dependence on one or more illict drugs in the past year increased from 164,000 in 2002 to 364,000 in 2004.
  • The average age of first use among new meth users was 18.9 years in 2002, 20.4 years in 2003, and 22.1 years of age in 2004.

METHAMPHETAMINE RELATED DEATHS IN THE US:

  • Data reported to DAWN by participating medical examiners show that between 1992 and 1994 meth related deaths more than DOUBLED going from 224 to 508.
  • Between 1994 and 1995 overall the number of deaths reported FELL by 4 percent (to 487 in 1995).
  • The number of deaths, however, had continued to INCREASE in TWO WESTERN CITIES each year between 1992 and 1995 (Las Vegas & Las Angeles).
  • In 1995, a majority of the deaths (84%) involved more than one drug, most often alcohol, heroin, or cocaine.
  • In 1995, the majority of the decedents were age 26 to 44 (68%).
  • 81% were male & 77% were white.

METHAMPHETAMINE RELATED HOSPITAL EMEREGENCY DEPARTMENT EPISODES IN THE US:

  • Meth related ED episodes more than TRIPLED between 1991 and 1994, rising from 4,900 to 17,700.
  • Between 1994 and 1995 there was no statistically significant change in meth related ED episodes overall (16,200 in 1995).
  • Between the first half of 1994 and the first half of 1995, the number of episodes increased by 35 percent, follwed by a decrease in the last six months of 1995.
  • The decline in meth related mentions continued through the first six months of 1996, with mentions decreasing to 4,000.
  • Reports by local area epidemiologists indicate there was a shortage of meth beginning in the last half of 1995 in some western cities such as San Diego, Los Angeles, Phoneix, & San Francisco.
  • Between 1993 & 1995, episodes increased in nine of the 21 metropolitan areas oversampled by DAWN. The number of meth related episodes more than DOUBLED in Denver, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Dallas.
  • During this time period, the number of episodes neraly DOUBLED in Minneapolis and New Orleans.
  • Meth related ED episodes, like deaths, predominantly occur among whites and males (65% each).
  • The number of episodes increased between 1991 and 1995 among blacks (by 145%) and Hispanics (by 356%) compared with an increase of 202 percent among whites.
  • Between 1991 and 1995, the number of meth related ED episodes 244 percent among males (from 3,057 to 10,516) and 206 percent among females (from 1,810 to 5,540).

 

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