crystal meth
Show Review: National Geographic "The World's Most Dangerous Drug: Methamphetamine"
Here at our treatment clinics, we periodically go back and forth on what is the more disturbing recent development we see in the field of addiction treatment - the epidemic of prescription drug abuse (and the accompanying "accidental deaths" like that of Heath Ledger earlier this year) or the incredible growth of crystal meth's popularity in the past 20 years. Nat Geo's excellent special entitled "The World's Most Dangerous Drug" brings the crystal meth epidemic to the forefront of our consciousness on this day. read more...
Meth Addiction - Meth Users Have Unique Needs in their Drug Treatment Program
Crystal Meth abuse is a very disturbing trend that we've seen grow exponentially over the last twenty three years of treating chemically dependent people here at the beach in California. Other names for crystal meth include speed, crank, crystal, tweak, ice, or glass. Methamphetamine is taken orally, intranasally (snorting the powder), by needle injection, or by smoking. read more...
