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24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair

One of the best episodes ever of Intervention reran on A&E last night, and we just had to share it. The entire show focuses on a young woman named Cristy, who, at the tender age of 24, has been addicted to crystal meth for 10 years — 10 years! Her family hasn't helped matters: Her father lets her live for free in his guest house — which she's completely trashed — and he and his ex-wife were only prompted to stage the intervention because they found out that Cristy had been working as a stripper. (Apparently, that was more alarming than the fact that she's deep in the throes of what is probably an irreversible meth psychosis in which she believes that she is the sister of both Jesus and Satan, and finds it appropriate to walk around outside with no clothing on.) The clip above is a little NSFW, for blurred out nudity.

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Crystal Meth Is A Hell Of A Drug


Judging from this clip from last night's episode of Intervention, crystal meth seems like no fun at all. In fact, it seems like hell, considering the fact that people strung out on it often have hallucinations in which they see demons, "shadow people," skeletons, and dead bodies. In the clip above, we meet Dawn, a mother of two young men who has been injecting meth everyday for 10 years and is suffering from meth psychosis. She doesn't make sense when she talks, she puts on crazy outfits and walks around outside, and she's gripped with fear when thinks she sees dead people under the stairs in the home where she's squatting. However, she's relieved when she says that it's not dead people — it's just their clothes. If ever there was a reason to stay off drugs, people, it's this lady. More »