Anyone who is abusing methamphetamine needs to get into addiction treatment.  The expected life span for hard core addiction is 5 years unless the addict stops.

Referral specialists are available to provide you or your loved one a confidential assessment and referral to addiction treatment centers throughout the United States.

TENNESSEE/GEORGIA DRUG REHAB HELP LINE

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Drug Rehab

The question of “why should I go to a drug rehab program?” is one that causes more discussion and doubt, anger and distrust, arguments and apathy than any other question associated with addiction. So why all the fuss? When a person is locked in the grasp of addiction, even the torture of ripping everything that matters away from them often doesn’t outweigh the tremendous craving to use more drugs. A family member may look at the person and think “ how could you not see how desperate your situation is” or “you must not want to get your life back so you must enjoy this struggle and pain”.

The truth is that no addict wants to be an addict. No one every woke up one morning and decided to rip apart their family, doom themselves to unemployed, penniless reliance on anyone who will support them and ultimate death or imprisonment for the drug or alcohol that controls them. Still, millions seem like they choose exactly that every day.  Addiction treatment provides the education and tools to living a life free from drugs and alcohol.

Break the cycle of addiction

Drugs are essentially pain-killers. They cover up emotional and physical pain, providing the user with a temporary and illusionary escape from life.

When a person is unable to cope with some aspect of their reality and is introduced to drugs, they feel they have perhaps solved the problem itself.

The more a person uses drugs or alcohol, the more inflated the problem becomes. More problems are created by their use.

This becomes the center of their focus. Soon enough the person feels the need to use consistently, and will do anything to get high.

Drug rehab will help put a new focus on life for you or your loved one.  Our referral specialists will help guide you to effective addiction treatment.

Crack

Crack and freebase are forms of cocaine made by chemically altering it to a purer, cheaper form suitable for smoking in a pipe. Because of the increase in purity, crack and freebase are more lethal than cocaine, also due to a direct route to the brain via the lungs it is more addictive. Users call it crack for the cracking sound it makes when smoked. Other users call it rock, for its similarity to small chips of stone.

What Are The Effects Of Crack And Freebase?

Inhaled through a pipe, crack and freebase reach the lungs and brain faster than regular cocaine, which must be absorbed in the blood from membrane tissue. Crack and freebase effects are dramatic. The euphoria is greater, the depression more severe. The side effects are even more dangerous, and the chances of dependence are significantly higher. What is Speedball? A Speedball is cocaine/crack mixed with heroin. This highly addictive mixture is emerging as the drug of choice among some abusers. Cocaine users use speedball’s to prevent the depression after they have used cocaine or crack. The result: they become addicted to both cocaine/crack and heroin. 

Addiction treatment is available for those who are suffering from the abuse of cocaine, crack, heroin or any drug that keeps one from being a productive to themselves their family and friends and their community.  If you  or someone you know needs help, our referral specialists will guide you to effective drug rehabilitation where freedom from the cycle of addiction can be discovered.

Methamphetamine is an amphetamine derivative. In 1919 methamphetamine was first produced in Japan. During the 1940s the Japanese government distributed methamphetamine pills to soldiers, sailors and pilots as well as to arms factory workers, to mobilize all their reserves for the war effort. Pilots routinely used the drug to remain awake and alert for long periods on long distance bombing missions or kamikaze missions. Common slang terms for methamphetamine are “Crystal, Crystal-Meth, Chalk, Ice, Glass, Crank,” or “Speed.” A potent illegal drug methamphetamine is commonly a white crystalline powder, but can be different colors depending on various methods of manufacturing. Methamphetamine can also be in pill form, clear crystals (ice) or liquid form. It can be smoked, sniffed, injected, or taken orally. Methamphetamine was taken extensively in the 1950s to help keep truckers awake, college students alert, and athletes on edge. Eventually, doctors realized the danger of the drug. During the 1980s, methamphetamine abuse skyrocketed. Its popularity has continued to climb and today has reached epidemic proportions.

methamphetamine

Methamphetamine is the most highly abused drug in Tennessee with crack and powder cocaine being second. Unfortunately, abuse of these two drugs is on the rise in Tennessee, especially methamphetamine.

Initially limited to Hawaii and western parts of the country, methamphetamine abuse spread eastward like a wild fire over the last several years, leaving devastation in its path in both urban and rural parts of the eastern states and Tennessee has not been an exception.

Adverse health effects include memory loss, aggression, psychotic behavior, heart damage, malnutrition, and severe dental problems.

There have been reports of some urban areas having a decreased work force, due to the inability of some of its citizens to pass a drug test.

The good news is that methamphetamine abuse can be prevented and methamphetamine addiction can be treated. People do recover, but only when effective treatments that address the multitude of problems resulting from methamphetamine abuse are readily available.

Methamphetamine users benefit greatly from long term addiction treatment.  Removing the addict from the immediate environment and allowing the development of new skills and relationships is crucial to recovery.

If you or somone you know is suffering from the crippling effects of methamphetamine abuse our referral specialists can help guide you to effective drug rehab.  Make today the day to begin the road to recovery.  Methamphetamine use has taken too much from you and your loved ones, take the stand today to fight addiction and regain your life, it is not too late.