<![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> the fight scene looked promising, could have ended differently :)

Spaceboy

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Sunnyjean: hardly :) I'm a transsexual, and the story I tell is (unfortunately) 100% true. See my profile for more info on me :p

mzmartipants

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> wow. just wow.

erinlynne

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> i thought oregon was meth state?

ilovejohnnythunders

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> It's a wonderful thing that LE and congress are focusing their anti-drug efforts on MLB and grown men who use steroids to play a sport, rather than meth. If it's ignored, it might just go away by itself.

fuzzylilfluff

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> There are also floating meth labs on boats out to sea. My Coast Guard ex-boyfriend used to raid them. People think somehow that if they get far enough out that the Coast Guard won't have jurisdiction, and they are wrong.

I remember, he said he didn't use the weapon he was issued, because it didn't look impressive enough. Some of the meth-lab people would figure, "Maybe I can take him." He got some kind of big shotgun which would make them decide not to try.

I've seen the Cristy episode. Because I'm horrible, I tend to mock the dad's song that he wrote for her. "She's so bitchy, and she's twitchy/Sometimes musty, that's my Crusty." I think he has a nice voice but damn, that little song was dumb.

Glaven

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @mzmartipants: I think your refreshing sense of humour gets you through the most part!!!

errrrr..you were joking about the "transexuality" part right?? either way, you are still cool! :)

Zouk!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I usually can't handle watching Intervention, but for some reason, I watched both this episode and the Iraq vet episode on Monday night, and I'm still trying to make sense of out what I saw.

It made me feel really voyeuristic and creepy for watching, but at the same time, I felt like I couldn't just change the channel and pretend like I'd never seen it.

frozenblueberries

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> i see meth users in the hospital. not only are they all assholes, but taxpayers end up paying for their medical bills. severe prolonged hypertension is really bad for you

bagbok

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> My brother is a meth head. He's lost his wife, thinks that his current girlfriend is a faerie (and thinks that she is planting mold in his house to try and kill him}. It would be funny, if it were fiction, but seeing it first hand really breaks my heart. He used to weigh 190 lbs, now weighs 130. He I'm 40, he's 38, and looks 50.

It's odd, but my mom always treated me and my brother different. I always resented it, but these days I'm glad she set limits on me, and was harder on me than on him. He grew up never having any boundaries, and has been living on the edge and never really grew up. I did drugs with my brother as a young person, but with the birth of my son, I realized it was time to grow up and focus on providing for my children.

I probably should write a book. I never thought that I'd be the normal, responsible , successful person in my family. But I never thought my sister would have a child with her half brother, my brother be a meth head, and my mom be an ex-gay lesbian. Kinda makes my transsexuality seem natural and normal. ;)

mzmartipants

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Sunnyjean: I think that explanation makes a bit more sense, in clarifying the users who seek a constant high vs. those who seek to use any substance on occasion you're pretty much separating out casual users from those who are addicted or dependent. Similar to those who have a glass of wine on occasion (or a joint or a pill) to those who need it on a regular basis.

I'm not sure that there's any clear answer out there as to what exactly leads to that difference. I know there are some findings regarding compulsive personalities, with those individuals being more prone to addictions of all sorts. I'm sure family factors are also important, along with what else someone has going on in their life. If you can easily separate "what I do socially every so often" from "the rest of your life" then you've got a better chance at keeping things you do in one from overtaking the other. Physical factors matter as well. A lot of the drugs work on neurotransmitters related to depression or anxiety. If someone has a pre-existing issue with depression and they find a drug that alleviates this feeling (even temporarily) they might be more inclined to addiction.

fizzyg

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Frontline did an excellent episode on the Meth epidemic, that can be viewed online at: [www.pbs.org]

It's a horror story, but also illuminating as to the source(s) of the problem. Apparently, it all started in Oregon...

blue lanugo

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Go Like Hell Machine: I totally agree with you on all points. I often wonder if the misconception of addiction after one experience can be responsible, in part, for continued use. If someone tries something and realize that they aren't addicted at that point, or aren't dead or in a gutter, they might disregard other (more useful) information they're being given about that substance.

fizzyg

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @orisha5: This is a very wise observation. Think of a random messed-up person you know. Think about what you know about their family. You'll find this common thread more often than not.

veraikon

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I agree that it's a dangerous drug, but not that it's as immediately addictive as a lot of commenters here have mentioned.

In other news, I'm sick to fucking death of reality shows that basically trivialize or sensationalize personal trauma. An intervention shouldn't be filmed and televised, period. It's nobody's business.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> The hardest part of this video to watch is seeing the family enable her. They're just reinforcing her behavior...rewarding it, even.

tundrababe

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AbbyNormal: There are no words, but I wish there were.

xo

Delilah Squid

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> When I see the tragedy that is this young woman's life and that of many others just like her, I swear it breaks my heart.I know it sound corny but I go to my son's room and give them big hugs and tell them I how very much I love them and why.

blue03

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @misssgolightly: Just was listening to their Fresh Air interview last night, which seriously made me want to go out and buy them both. After I get paid, that is.

lawlessly

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @marie123: I think these are some of the ads you were referring to. Scary shit.

www.montanameth.org

Click on "view ads" to see them.

IvyLeagueMetalhead

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> i stayed up until midnight watching this episode and couldn't help but think that if the mother hadn't plucked the crap out of her eyebrows and then passed the habit down to her daughters, their lives would probably have been so much different. sorry, it's cruel, but i was so fascinated with the eyebrows.

seriously though, christy was obviously so traumatized by her parents divorce that i doubt she'll ever recover. it made me wonder if there just may be instances when the parents should try to stick it out a bit longer. or at least not move to a different city in the event of a divorce.

number13

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I really want to know what she's doing now. They always do the "where are they now" special and show the shopping addicts! Who cares about their shopping problem I have my own, thanks.

itsnotaskirtfool

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I grew up around drug addicts and I assure you this is just another day in the life behavior.

FancyFancy

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Archetype: She went to re-hab because her family told her the police would put her in solitary because of her behavior and she just agreed to go, but after 3 days the staff at the rehab facility told her she had to follow the rules or leave, so she left. Then her family told her she made a deal that she would go to rehab for 90 days or jail. She said she'd go to jail then, so she could have control of her own life. In court the judge gave her an option of 90 days jail or 2 years rehab and again she chose jail. At the end of the show they had quotes from her in jail saying it was teaching her structure and to respect authority and she would "try life sober" when she got out.

goldenmonkey

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I think all kinds of things are making her crazy. I just saw this episode this past Saturday at my parents house. The girl has been on meth since 14, so she's been drugged out of her mind WHILE her brain is still doing a lot of developing and growing. Then she's drinking (her shower was piled with empty vodka bottles), and she apparently barely eats. So she's also got that fucked up brain thing going the anorexic types get. And what's with her half-brother? When he hugged her on the couch in that one scene his hands were totally way too close to her ass area.

She asks the intervention coordinator guy what do you know about it or something. He says he used to be on meth 5 years and she laughs and says "I been doing it 10 years! That's longer than you!" and taunts him basically. I think she might need a stay in some sort of mental health type facility in addition to the detox shit.

goldenmonkey

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> The restrictions on sale of pseudoephedrine were temporarily effective here in OK (first state to institute them). Production has moved to Mexico now, there are less labs in the US and the meth has gotten stronger. Or so I hear...It really sucked, I recently needed Sudafed to go scuba diving and couldn't find any anywhere!

Mrs. DeLesseps To You, Dahling

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I've used it multiple times, recreationally in the 90's, and felt no need to continue using it. I'm plenty prone to addiction but that one never appealed. My brother, though, it gets him by the balls. Last time he was cleaning up (in jail) he read some booklets about meth causing swiss-cheese type holes in the brain. He was so scared about the state of his. The fear is justified.

Mrs. DeLesseps To You, Dahling

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @fizzyg: Sorry I missed this!

I hear what you are saying, and totally agree that there's no better evil; but I still do not understand the need by some to remain in that state of "high" permanently; I mean, does on chose to never leave an amusement park, just soley for the reason they are having too much fun momentarily? This is the rationale I struggle with... I also agree there are people who have less of an addictive personality who dabbled into drugs in the past, but have since moved on.... I guess the million dollar question becomes what makes it easier for some to get over the "experimental phase" better than others?

I do not have the answers!

But I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, that perphaps the goverment should "legalize it".... And set up better monitoring control... Maybe dimystifying drugs can help reduce the number of people who want to "experiment"?

Do you have any other suggestions fizzg? You probably understand this society better than I do....whats your take?

Zouk!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I remember watching this episode as well...she was of the saddest ever. A person who has never suffered from Addiction cannot begin to understand the complex situtation that you are in..and having no insurance really sucks. I have been to rehab, with insurance and they only give you tops 7 days..then they send you back out to a AA or NA meeting. You have to want to do it..if not you go right back "out" and the cycle continues. Coming from a family of alcholic's it is easy to repeat the cycle..I take it "one day at a time"!! Thank you all for sharing!

angryblackgurl

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @randomthoughts: I hear what you are saying about methamphetamines being highly addictive. I used it repeatedly in the past; I am now off the stuff.

Most people who use it can't get away from it though.

bigleggedwoman

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @sumac:
Clearly, a bi-product of a flawed public education system...pity!

but i digress! Moving on.......


Zouk!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I freaking HATE meth. I watched it ruin the life of a friend of mine that didn't start doing it till his mid-thirties. Before meth, he had a good job at a great company (Boeing), a wife, three kids, a home, nice cars, and a side business landscaping. He lost EVERYTHING within a year. All of it. And he stunk, lost teeth, and started stalking me. Boeing security had me in their office and it was just a nightmare.
I watched the Cristy ep when it first aired and again the other night. Girl is whacked. My teenage girl hates this show but I made her watch this one back when it first aired. And then she saw it again when it was shown in her psychology class this semester. I had a hard time mustering up any sympathy or empathy for Cristy-I thought she was just downright mean and pretty smug about the whole thing.


CHOCOLATECOFFEEBEANS

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @DorothyZbornak: They'd wind up throwing her back on the sidewalk! There's an O. Henry story like that.

Question: why do the producers blur out the brand of Vodka!?! Are they protecting Seagrams or something?

bigleggedwoman

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AnastasiaaBeaverhausen: How did the show end? I'm dying to know now.

niftypenguin

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Meth is more addictive than anything we've ever seen. It has made it a pain in the ass to buy a decongestant too. Assholes.

Anyway, the registry thing does help bust the cookers.

And, that shit is majorly toxic. Like, the cops will drive around a neighborhood looking for houses/trailers with dead plants all around them etc to target residences as meth labs. Nothing lives in those places, not fish in a tank or a parakeet. And usually, there's a bunch of dirty underfed neglected kids running underfoot. How they survive is a mystery.

That shit is the scourge of this century. period. end of story. and there's no trying it once and walking away. it does something to your brain and you are hooked. it isn't like crack where you probably will get hooked. you will be hooked.

there are no recovering meth addicts, just addicts.

sad.

randomthoughts

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Sunnyjean: lame.

sumac

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @3cardkitty: Hi!

I hear what you are saying; it's a given that the drug scourge would have a more impact on society's lower socio-economic class, but I'm not too sure it's strictly the case in America, being that it's a very prosperous society (comparatively); on average, more kids experiment with drugs than is common elsewhere.... Again, I really truly doubt there are any American communities that suffer the kind of poverty and lack we've got back home; but then it's all very relative in the end.... Here in America, I've encountered so many obviously bored kids (and adults too, I dare say!), who appear to have nothing to aspire to & lack any drive; they are so unaware of worlds different from theirs, and are extremely insular; their society nudges them to be very "self-centered", accountable to no-body; but this only leads to a state of distress because human beings are sociable entities.......

I come from a fairly "closed-up" and less tolerant society; alcoholism and drug use is considered an errant behavior; and the [poor]sufferer is thought of as a failure and an embarrassment to his/her family and hence, treated with much disdain, at best ignored; depression which is usually an underlying cause of these addictions, is not even considered an illness in our society. Growing up, kids are constantly reminded not to indulge in activities that would bring shame on the family... Furthermore, because of the disparate ratio between the rich and the poor, children are pressured to strive and at worse "do whatever it takes" to be better than their peers (ofcos this leads to high crime rates!); don't forget that the lack of a "welfare system" means that children are expected to care for their parents, and parents in turn pressure the kids to earn more (at any cost sometimes), so they can be well looked after; it's a vicious circle somewhat……

On a personal note, my mom and dad decided our colleges & careers; my older sister was going to be lawyer (she is); my brother & i, medical doctors (they figured it would be cool to have 2 MDs in the family, my brother finished med school and decided after his residency that he preferred ships and seafaring, he's now a marine engineer)… I failed out of med school; but currently have 2 degrees in engineering; 1 in engineering management; and because, I'm filled with this deep sense of failure for not having the prefix "Dr" before my name the way my dad (he's dead now) would've have wanted, I'm planning for a doctorate degree (which I really don't need)…

You see, I don't even have the time to even think of being high!  

Zouk!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @aubonpam: In at least some states pseudoephedrine is sold behind the counter and you need to sign in and show ID when you purchase it. I'm not sure if there has been any analysis whether this has had an affect on the meth problem, though.

Lizawithazee

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I grew up in southeastern Ohio and I can tell you that meth is most definately a problem here. We now have "rolling meth labs" because people who were getting busted at home have now moved labs to their trucks and vans.
Last year when my mom was teaching kindergarten she had a little boy whose dad was a meth user/dealer (it was widely known in the county, he was being investigated at the time) but the little boy was just a spazz. My mom suspected that the boy was exposed to the meth and perhaps even given it by his dad. Mom said that the kid would just be so wild and his little eyes were so dialated and behavior impulsive. On other days he could barely keep his eyes open, by halfway through the year the kid had already missed 15 days of school. Really sad.
On another note my mom worked with a family who was actually on Jerry Springer. I shit you not. They taped the epi and then had a viewing party titled the "Springer Spring Fling." Had my mom and her collegues not laughed at this they would probably all be in therapy.



savywench

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @katekate: I've been involved in some meth trials, too, and some of the cases arose because pharmacists made reports. Apparently methfolks do what's called "smurfing" (or this may be lame prosecutorial outdated jingo), which is driving around from drug store to drug store to get a sufficient amount.

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Sunnyjean: That seems a bit silly to say, after you've just described an enjoyable feeling of some drug (because alcohol is a drug as well). Think of the same feeling, only varying in type and intensity. It's not that hard to imagine an allure. Sure the effects can be horribly bad, but that can happen with alcohol when taken to excess as well.

(Not that this is meant as a promotion of meth use, but I find it strange when people can imagine the substances they use to be okay, but others they don't use to have no enticing merits.)

I have known quite a few people who used meth recreationally and went on to continue to be fine upstanding citizens. However most of those individuals quit adding it into their regular mix of other substances after a short period of experience with it. It does take people down quickly and quite hard.

fizzyg

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @HoldenCaulfieldsSister: Yeah, dude, you get all high at, like, 3 a.m., and you're restless, and it suddenly seems like a GREAT idea to dye your hair.

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I hate meth so much. I also have a hard time watching shows like Intervention, tapes of David Hasselhoff slurring, etc, because of personal stuff in my past relating to an alcoholic loved one. Seeing her flip out on her sister made me feel really bad.

I saw an episode of Frontline recently where a former DEA agent was talking about how simply putting products with pseudoephedrine behind the counter could radically reduce the meth supply, and how the drug companies don't want to do that because it could hurt their profits. This country continues to go to shit every day.

aubonpam

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AbbyNormal: i lost my best friend from junior high to a heroin overdose over 10 years ago. her funeral service was on her 27th birthday. from dealing with my beautiful, talented, smart-as-a-whip and now deceased friend, with the random phone calls and bizarre conversations to ultimately having her be afraid for me to see her "like this", all i know is that this addiction stuff never happens overnight. not a day goes by where i don't wish i could have done something more, but we had drifted apart by the time she got into heavy using. i'll send good prayers and vibes your way. stay strong girl.

rednrowdy

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @alaskanbrownbear: As a former meth prosecutor myself, I'll second that. Meth is kind of a double whammy: 1.)it is one of the most addictive drugs out there and 2.) all of the ingredients necessary to make it in your own kitchen are perfectly legal to possess and can be purchased at your local WalMart.

cocoesq

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AbbyNormal: Wow, I'm so sorry you have to go through that.

Brigit

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Jordan Lund: 1. Did you see the old photos of her? She looks a lot worse now.
2.Meth doesn't necessarily make you look that bad that fast (referring to your link). I've known a couple people who have abused it for several years and they looked a little more severe/thinner, but not that different.


estapesta

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Has to be fake. Meth will do way more damage way faster than in 10 years...

Faces of Meth mugshot comparisons:

[www.drugfree.org]

[www.drugfree.org]

[www.drugfree.org]

[www.drugfree.org]

[www.drugfree.org]

Jordan Lund

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> hmm. what country in which people are struggling for "a next meal" doesn't have a substance problem? drugs can numb the sharp edge of that hunger.

come on, do math!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Sunnyjean: That's a very interesting perspective, but drug use in the US tends to have more impact on lower socio-economic classes (the people with less money). I think there's a proven link between desperation/hopelessness and drug use rates. Of course, there's also availablity. Where are you from? Are drugs widely available there?

3cardkitty

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Apart from the occasional "happy feeling & looser tongue" after a glass of really good red wine; I have never been high.... And still do not understand why anyone would want to under the influence of some drug... I guess my deep need to be in control of "circle of influence" helps.. then again, coming from a society where most people are concerned with getting the next meal, i guess drugs (that is not easily available weed - janga) is the very last thing on our minds...

Sometimes I think the drug problem arise when people have too much time on their hands and very little to worry about.... In my book, life is hard; just get on with it!

Zouk!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> So glad that my meth days were small and insignificant. (Over 10 years ago, also.) I got out of it as quickly as I got into it. I've NEVER seen anyone that far gone on meth...or anything for that matter. Sad.

CissyPants

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Also, I lost a good friend to meth a few years ago. Every time I run into him now, he is a homeless guy on the street. It's so sad. He used to freak out about god and the devil and the end of the world, too.

estapesta

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I found her to be one of the least sympathetic addicts I've seen on this show. I know that it's probably due mostly to her meth use, but she was just so MEAN to her family (calling her sister fat, laughing when they read their intervention letters). Oh, and it wasn't her father's "guest house" that she was trashing, it was her dead grandmother's house.

estapesta

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @youknowverse: are you talking about fav drug movies? You forgot "Requiem for a Dream" and "Spun". I swear I'm not on meth but damn, why am I up at 5am?

Style Queen

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @hotpotatoes: I thought Mr. Sensitive was the right call because he was a former crystal meth addict -- There was a part in the intervention when she was all "How do YOU know anything about meth, STFU" and he calmly tells her he was on it for five years. I was still shocked they got her on the plane.

whitekidinflatbush

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Yeah, I saw this when it first aired. she's a lost cause.

olivia720

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Are you/we all insane?

I saw the show yesterday - the one thing Cristy didn't get was love. Yeah, corny sounding, but true.

Her mother is totally self-righteous, her father won't apologize for leaving her and paying no attention to her. The interventionist pays no mind to who she is.

Yes, her meth craziness has made her into a grating, very annoying person. But all she gets to hear, including here, is people coming from on high to control her.

Which is what the problem was in the first place.

Yeah, people love to feel so, so superior.

orisha5

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> On another note, what I really want now is a sports bottle with "VODKA" printed on it in giant red letters.

mwynn13

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Political Party Girl: Oh, man.......thanks, I did miss your comment. I've only seen about 5 of the Intervention episodes, and that's the second that hasn't worked out. At the end of the "episode," that is.
@lolowyo: I just did a bit of research. What I found was that meth production started in Oregon and spread into CA and Nevada and then eastward.

During the 1990s there was not only a surge in meth abuse on the West Coast, particularly in California and Oregon, but the drug cartels also moved into the meth trade.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I think a lot of states think they are the meth capital of the world. I am from Wyoming. SOOO many drugs. I, unfortunately, did my share. Watching this made me cry, because I realize that 10 years ago, I probably acted like this chick. So sad.

lolowyo

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Archetype: You probably missed it, so to save space, I'll just link to my comment summarizing the end of the epi. It's not a happy ending, I'm afraid. [jezebel.com]

Political Party Girl

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I was totally watching this episode last night. I think the alcohol might be as much to blame for her problems as meth. If you've ever spent time with a serious alcy you'd be familiar with this kind of ranting and raving. I have to admit that she seems pretty happy and thinks she's got everything under control. Why the hell would she want to change? She was so manipulative.

Am I alone in this, or does it seem like sometimes Intervention gets their interventionists mixed up? Mr. Sensitive was soooo not a match for Hair-gone-wild. I bet that bald guy would've been like, "you shut up and listen. These people are done putting up with you." Meanwhile, the poor Iraq vet totally had me crying. Soooo sad: "This one's for Srg. Deiker" or whatever his name was. Poor kid. No future? Of course he's going to drink. Duh! That's what vets do. I hate Republicans. Take care of your damn soldiers!!!! Hire them as your drivers or something; don't let them work in liquor stores!!

hotpotatoes

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Trixie from Toronto: I know someone who knows someone, blah blah blah ... The Animal is mos def a recreational user. Sad if she got Britney on it, and if Britney is bipolar. I wonder if meth is a common drug of choice for those with bipolar disorder, considering if they want to elongate the "high" rather than face the low?

@eraserheadpixies: I definitely agree DARE doesn't work, at least if it's anything like it was when they taught it when I was in fifth grade. I'll always remember my booklet, comparing Sandy to Daisy. Sandy was basically the perfect goody-girl who after a day of productivity went to bed saying "I'm glad to be me", and Daisy had a hard life so she started smoking. It was all too black and white for me.

I went to college in Wisconsin and while it's not a problem for the college set, it's definitely a problem in rural areas between Minneapolis and Chicago. My roommate's estranged mother was an addict and was forging his name on credit card offers mailed to the house in order to fund her habit (she'd get the cards and then get advances from ATM machines). Sad stuff.

whitekidinflatbush

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Archetype: At the end, she got kicked out of rehab and chose to do time in jail rather than get treatment. She claimed that she's now a sober stripper.

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> my personal favorites are the basketball diaries, trainspotting, drugstore cowboy, and blow.

youknowverse

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Cam/ron: Wow. I spent kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade in Marysville in a trailer park in the early 1980s. That wasn't a good time.

StormyMes

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @petitcerise: I think some other people have addressed this, but it's unlikely that your drug use caused the depression/anxiety, and more likely that you were self medicating. Or perhaps simply experimenting, I don't know. That being said, if you have a history of depression, drug use certainly will not help. It gets so muddled, chicken/egg, and everyone's experiences are so varied and not static.

I guess everyone has some demons (or ten).

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Okay, I was finally able to watch this clip. I am really curious how the film crew affected her behavior. I am most certainly not dismissing said behavior, far from it. It's just that no one exists in a vacuum.

Has anyone see the end of this? Did she ever end up in rehab?

I really can't say anything else as I haven't seen the entire episode - which I suppose wouldn't really tell me the whole story, anyhow.

What a shit drug.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @3cardkitty: Ugh. In the clip, she does call her sister fat.

HeatherNumber1

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> it would have been nice if her sister had put on a belt for the show.

bigtittiecommittee

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @missything: I definitely agree with this. Chances are, petitcerise, you were doing the drugs to self-medicate some kind of anxiety/depression that you hadn't recognized and with the drugs out of the equation, you're experiencing the symptoms of those issues.

The town I live in now (just outside of Omaha) used to be known for its meth addicts and a few labs but they've really managed to clean it up. Sadly, though, it wasn't eradicated so much as it was just pushed on to another town for them to deal with.

Its an evil, evil drug and the scariest thing about it is how its made. There is no way of knowing just what it is that's going into your body. And it does such permanent damage. I've known people who, even after getting clean, still suffer from mental and physical side effects.

Even if this Cristy chick ever does get clean, chances are she will still battle some sort of mental illness and mild psychosis for the rest of her life. Her brain isn't just going to repair itself after that much damage.

And, yeah, her teeth are probably fakes but I'm surprised her skin isn't that bad. I didn't watch the entire episode but she didn't seem to have the sores and scars most meth addicts seem to have.

Vermeil

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I agree with this being one of the craziest eps. The part where she "explained" her relation to the Jesus/Devil was creepy.

youtalkwaytoomuch

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @3cardkitty: Thanks very much for this enlightening info.. I'll definitely be passing it on!

Zouk!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AbbyNormal: Man I'm sorry. My bro laid that bitch meth to rest 15 years ago, only to resurrect her this past year. If I could find her, I'd put a stake in her heart. If you can, remember Bob Forrest from Celebrity Rehab...24 tries at rehab, when it finally stuck. I'm sure his family had lost most, if not all, hope. It's not over till it's over.

When it finally WAS over, for my other bro, there was the weirdest mix of grief for me and relief for him. That life is a misery.

Mrs. DeLesseps To You, Dahling

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I have been told, on good authority, that being high on crank makes you want to stick things in your ass. Not kidding.

I had to watch last night's episode of Intervention b/c I've lost a girlfriend to meth, and as it turns out, a lot of the particulars are the same: my ex-friend isn't a stripper, but she does have an enabling mom who's *never* made her hold down a job, plus lingering sadness over an asshole dad who checked out while she was young. She's not only addicted to meth but has a miserable relationship w/a fellow addict that's fueled by her self-loathing.

It's a long, slow, ugly death from what I can see, and I'd say you're better off addicted to anything else, heroin included. At least junkies aren't psychotic and destructive.

vixenatrix

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AbbyNormal: Yes, AbbyN...I grew up on the coast of Northern California (lotttts of drugs) and now reside in the valley. One of my best friends is dealing with someone she is very close with who is addicted to meth, also in Arcata.

It's just, so awful.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @PC: With all due respect, and speaking as a non professional (but a depressive and ex-partier) I don't think some time partying many years ago has the ability to permanently affect your serotonin levels to that degree. Many people start partying to treat underlying depression or chemical imbalances, not the other way around. Now you aren't masking those feelings with drugs any more, they might just be coming up for you Have you tried therapy/ yoga/ 12 step support for the underlying issues? If not, they may help... and doing something positive beats blaming the past. All we have is today.

missything

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AbbyNormal: I know what you mean about Humboldt. I grew up there & just went back to visit family after 5 years. Many people there have the dead eyes. It's really sad because it used to be a hapy, pot-smoking only kinda place.

nicoolio

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @charlotte corday: We don't have sanitariums in this country. We have dark alleys and pimps and a nice spot under the bridge.

syneblue

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @missbitchy: not saying the super-virus was "totally made up". just that reports were perhaps overreported.

agreed: no one should do meth or ride bareback, much less both at the same time.

miz_dj

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Trixie from Toronto: Yikes, really? The dildo scene in Requiem is so disturbing for me. I also like the movie - I just can't watch the end.

Sid and Nancy too.

Must be some kind of connection to the self destruction.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AbbyNormal: I am so sorry. I can definitely sympathize. My brother has been an addict since high school. I especially related about having to hide your stuff. I'll never forget meeting my brother and his GF at the time and realizing that they were so insistent about seeing my place because they wanted to see what they could steal from me. Or having him over for Christmas and having to hide the alcohol and lie about it when he asked (during one of his rehab stints, naturally.)

@tmmkitten: For my .02, most of my family eventually had to cut him off. For a very long time, my brother saw us as little more than a resource to get more drugs. Dealing with him was emotionally exhausting and eventually we couldn't justify the impact of his issues on our lives. No one needs that. And much as you love the addict in question, you need to let them fall on their ass so that they can see the need to change.

My brother is very lucky that my parents didn't give up on him. He lived with them for a long, nasty, painful year before kicking the habit. I have to give them credit for rising to the occasion. My brother would certainly be dead or in jail without their help.

Hooplehead

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Yes. Best episode. I was trying to tell my friends about this. Thanks for the clip!

perennial

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> God, I can't bring myself to even watch the clip. I can't watch shows like intervention because I get anxiety. I went through a period when I was "partying" in my early twenties and did a lot of ecstasy and even tried meth. It is the most horrible drug and coming down off of it I could not understand how people would want to continue doing it. I feel that this druggy period that I went through is the reason for the depression/anxiety that I have been having on and off since then. My doc doesn't think so but come on how could it not? I have a kid and I wonder if I should make her watch some of these shows so she will never want to touch a drug.

petitcerise

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Sunnyjean: You should read this -- a very good look at the drug demographics and how the whiter meth epidemic is getting more sympathetic treatment than previous drug scourges that affected blacks and other minorities more.
[www.november.org]


3cardkitty

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Trixie from Toronto: A reality show I could not take, but considering the role of drugs in American culture (and by themselves), sure I'll watch something like Blow or American Gangster. (And of course two of my fav movies --Goodfellas and Boogie Nights--are about the romance of being a gangster/porn being tainted in large part due to drugs and/or the "war" on it. Good stuff.

But reality TV--and especially this show? Can't take it.

marie123

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @ceejeemcbeegee: Thanks! I kind of thought so...

Zouk!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> this is occurring on a much smaller, but still very scary level with my younger sister. you don't know what helplessness is until you try to help someone who refuses it. and who also refuses to be honest with herself about a very visible and painful problem.

while i blame the family for enabling her, you have to ask yourself: if this were my sister, would i turn my back on her?

tmmkitten

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> you know meth is sucha weird drug
cause when homosexuals take it they become thin and fabulous.
but when straight girls take it theyre eyebrows get jacked the fuck up and they look like shit.

and straight guys look like shit always so they look like shit on meth by default.

lavitica

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @JRae: ok. it was a legitimate question; i'm no expert on the medical side of drugs and have known a lot of people really fucked up/dead from heroin and even crack to a certain extent, and i've seen the environmental destruction and human rights abuses connected to cocaine production in Colombia, so I was just asking for more information on the nature of meth's comparative worseness.

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> mystery_bouffe: I love you!

eraserheadpixies (now representing norwegian xanax and JESUS!1!@#!)

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Trixie from Toronto: Jesus! Requiem for a Dream fucked me up for a WEEK!

broad

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AbbyNormal: So, so true -- I've got a couple of addicts in my fam, too, so I know how that goes.

broad

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Drugs will meth up your life.

mystery_bouffe

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I didn't read the comments so maybe someone already said this, but the whole ep is available here:


+ Watch video

Yanee

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @misssgolightly: I knew that it emerged that Go Ask Alice was, in fact, an anti-drug hoax book, but that didn't lessen its impact on me reading it as a kid. And it worked! I was always far too frightened to ever drop acid.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @miz_dj: Super HIV is not made up. It's a strain of the virus that doesn't respond to any medication that we have so those infected are basically screwed. No treatment options whatsoever.

missbitchy

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> jackmarie: Yeah, I agree that DARE does not work. I pretty much encourages kids, since its always the nerdy old police men about to retire who do it. All it really is, is a way for kids to get out of class, like recess. The thing is if they wanted to show pictures of/show clips of/bring in real people, parents wouldn't agree with it. I just don't get it though, aren't a few nightmares better then a life in jail or a real life nightmare? Another thing that annouys me is how much time they fucking waste on pot and cigarettes, as I think most kids know all about them. I only had DARE a few years ago, but I don't even remember anything about Meth.
I could be biased though about the pot thing since I think it should be legal.
Man, I'm ranting again.



eraserheadpixies (now representing norwegian xanax and JESUS!1!@#!)

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Sunnyjean: I think it's safe to say that certain portrayals you see on TV are not only inaccurate, but sterotypical and broad.

ceejeemcbeegee

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I think about this girl every time I see Intervention and wonder how she is doing. I'm sure its better not to know.

Mando323

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> best episode EVER

adina

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Since the drug awareness programs in PA don't seem to work (DARE)...I honestly think that showing a couple of episodes of Intervention would make any child scared out of their minds to do drugs. Somehow a cartoon bunny saying no to beer is not as affective as seeing real people and how drugs have made them lose everything and everyone around them.

jackimarie

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> wow!!!!

I'm not American; but live and work here because a job posting; can someone please tell me, is meth addiction a white people problem? I don't mean any disrespect; but the only meth addicts i see on TV are white people? And the only crack addicts I see on TV are black people? I don't understand?!!

The drug problem we have back home is weed!

Thanks for sharing all your stories; God bless you all.

Zouk!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Easily my favorite episode of Intervention.

Yatta!

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> That is my brother (minus the boobs and the bad dye job) when he has been off his medication.

He never even did drugs, mental illness is not pretty.

CecilMcCecil

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @misssgolightly: Yes, but at 11 or 12 ALL the cool girls had to read it. AND it had the opposite effect I believe as all those same girls were hitting the chronic at some point in Jr. High

PICKLES

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @J.D.Regent: I'm almost offended that you would equate meth with other "street" drugs (but I know it's not personal). ;) Meth is way, way, way worse than most other illegal drugs on the market. After using meth ONCE you can be brain damaged. No other common street drugs come close to that (except maybe PCP?). Even heroin doesn't give you brain damage after one use. (I use the term brain damage loosely because I forget exactly what the scientists were testing when I read the study on meth, I just remember neurons died or something.)

JRae

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> this poor girl's brain is swiss cheese. when I saw her spitting food & breaking windows, I also thought 'feral'. Anyone who chooses jail over rehab doesn't really have a great chance.

fashionably-challenged

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> plus, whenever i see that color hair+that color eyeshadow+that level of desperation all i can think of is 2girls1cup.

screammylungzout

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Gingerlime: She refuses help and then gets sent to jail per her family's promises of what they would do if she didn't go to rehab. I think A&E sort of lost track of her after that.

shiningstar

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA: Go Ask Alice is actually a don't-do-drug book by the conservative/christian right.
[en.wikipedia.org]
They had a whole slew of books in the same vein: don't have sex, etc.
I did love it though.

misssgolightly

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Cam/ron: I live in nor cal too, its sad how often we get meth lab busts in the news paper.

Aaryn

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> She has haunted me for over a year now from when it first aired.

mandelion

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA: LOVE Drugstore Cowboy. I tell you, if someone's shooting heroin on the silver screen, I'll be in line to go see it. And I have never done anything harsher than smoking weed.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> *definitely

eraserheadpixies (now representing norwegian xanax and JESUS!1!@#!)

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Oh yeah, Sid and Nancy is one of my fave movies. So is Eraserhead, as you can tell from my sn, and I know it's not a drug movie, but it definatly could be interpreted that way. At least, it makes you feel that way.

eraserheadpixies (now representing norwegian xanax and JESUS!1!@#!)

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @3cardkitty: There are also rumours -- just rumours, people, just rumours!!! -- that Renee Z. and Jennifer Aniston have trouble with coke which developed entirely due to weight concerns. And of course that's why they all smoke cigarettes too.

I was at this thing on the weekend and saw Ellen Page up close and she is the teeniest, tiniest thing, yet on the Oscar red carpet she actually looked almost wide next to people like Keri Russell, who was disturbingly bone-rack-ish.

What a town -- it has convinced women they must be skeletons to be successful to the point where they will develop drug addictions to achieve it. And still get hired despite everyone knowing they have drug addictions because, well, at least they're thin!!

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Trixie from Toronto: Drugstore Cowboy with Matt Dillon is my Fav of the genre. Also Go ask Alice, 6th grade must have book.

PICKLES

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> goldengirl11, same here, except my mom would attack my dad every few weeks and would forget within the hour or so, and she might have multiple peronalities or dissociative disorder or something. Whatever, I don't want to think about her right now. Although my mom didn't do numerology, she mostly just obsessed over the past, *hated* my dad, and talked to herself. She also popped pills when I was a baby, but my dad did LSD and coke before I was born, so those things didn't affect me. Actually, I don't know why I'm typing this, since I always thought none of it did. Ah God.

eraserheadpixies (now representing norwegian xanax and JESUS!1!@#!)

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @marie123: Drug movies are my favourite genre of film and I don't know why either. It must have started back when I read Go Ask Alice and scared me half to death. But Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream, Sid and Nancy -- I could watch those movies over and over again.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Both National Geographic Channel and Frontline have done brilliant specials on the Meth Scourge. You can see the Frontline at pbs.org.

BeachLover420

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Oh, okay I bothered to read back over some of these posts and people are mentioning she might have a mental illness and meth addiction. Many people with mental illnesses do deal with substance abuse issues, in fact, I volunteered in drug/mental health which they combined because so many of the people had joint problems.

I thought maybe meth produced some of the same "symptoms," because I have nooo experience with this addiction, thank god! I thought it was a pretty big coincidence!

goldengirl11

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @J.D.Regent: I think its because of the 1) environmental contamination element from the disposal of the cooking by-product, this is a hazmat level clean-up if done properly. The chemicals contaminate groundwater and soil when casually disposed. They can also give off toxic fumes to people that unwittingly encounter the situation or by-product. And 2) the total lack of success in long-term rehabing people for this drug.

I've worked in Public Health for 15+ years and this is one of the worst things I ever had to deal w/from a clinical perspective and a hazmat clean-up perspective as the administator. To go into a meth house is almost beyond description. Imagine a war-zone w/hazmat issues.

AGreenEyeDevil

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Condensed info on meth: [www.usdoj.gov]

Political Party Girl

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> I suspected that Brit Spears was on meth for about 10 minutes, then I saw that her skin had not been picked all to hell and decided it was most likely just amphetamines.
I love and hate that I actually typed "just amphetamines" .


TheUptightMidwesterner

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @LadyChatterley: She went to rehab for 31 days (out of the 90 she was supposed to stay), left early/was kicked out for not following the rules, went to court where the judge gave her the choice between 90 days in jail or 2 years of treatment. She chose jail, served her time, and relapsed 6 weeks after she was released. Her dad kicked her out of the house where she had been living, and she was living with a friend.

Political Party Girl

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> My mom has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder...schizoaffective disorder, and she did shit like "numerology" and exhibited the same behavior in bit more of a manic way. It's bizarre to see the same sort of thing happening but in such a different way for such a different cause.

goldengirl11

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @HeatherNumber1: like the new Scared Straight

PICKLES

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @umm_okay: Or, if her parents are loaded enough to have a guest house, the teeth are fake.

The first episode of intervention I ever saw revolved around a young woman who was a meth addict and a nurse. Gah.

lisas

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @TheUptightMidwesterner: But mom was skinny, right? So she won! This drug pisses me off immensely.

3cardkitty

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @impeh: yikes. i researched the same sort of epidemic in moldova, alleged to be the poorest place in the former soviet union. yeah. they'd cook it up and inject it and fuck for several days, then crash. repeat. making the average junkie's life span 3 years, soup to nuts. mindbending.

Charlotte Corday

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @impeh: Damn. That's a punch in the gut for me, just reading it. How DO they manage to show up to work? So depressing.

3cardkitty

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @charlotte corday: Where are you going?!?!?!?!?

Anyone want to meebo chat?

Trashtastic

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> CRISTY!!! My favorite interventionee EVER!! Thank you!

shiningstar

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @3cardkitty:
She forgot about her kids for almost 2 days. Both in a play pen. I cannot believe they were alive. (Don't get me started about meth-babies--that is a whole separate downer thread).
The house has since been torn down, and they had to do some kind of soil clean up before anyone could build there.



TheUptightMidwesterner

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @3cardkitty:
As part of that research I was talking about earlier, I interviewed a woman who was raising her three grandchildren because her daughter was addicted to meth. The kids (all under the age of six) came into custody after the mother went on a week-long meth binge and left them alone at home the entire time. The worst part? The woman had four kids. The youngest, who was only about two, died before a neighbor finally reported that the kids had been abandoned.

I don't know how frontline child welfare and mental health workers, police officers, and hospital personnel in meth-plagued areas summon the courage to show up to work every day.

impeh

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @eraserheadpixies: Meth is a pretty big thing among gay men in New York City. I'd say it's in epidemic territory.

milkshakenhoney

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> This show should be required viewing for all teens. It is a true 'anti-drug.'

Also, I hate to say it, but she'd make a great cult leader.

HeatherNumber1

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> Intervention is one of my favourite shows. As much as it's criticized I really do think they have done an amazing job at educating the public as to the effects of these drugs. Not only that, but you can actually understand (in most cases) why they turned to the drugs or alcohol in the first place. Before I'd seen the show, I used to take a very hardline "drug addicts are scum" approach but I can now comprehend the addiction more.

This story is just heartbreaking. Does anyone know if she agreed to go to rehab in the end?

LadyChatterley

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @umm_okay: It's ravaged her eyebrows!!

PICKLES

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @AbbyNormal:

Abby, I am sorry for your sibling's troubles. My father and other andother relatives had and some still have issues with this and it sucks.

SleeplessNights

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @Trixie from Toronto: Christ. Wouldn't surprise me. Isn't it incredible that the promise of weight loss is enough to outweigh everything else we know about this drug? I mean, the ad campaign against meth has everyone I know pretty well-educated about how badly it fucks people up. And yet, people keep doing it.

3cardkitty

]]> <![CDATA[24-Year-Old Female Meth Addict Is, Frankly, Almost Beyond Repair]]> @misssgolightly: I'm strangely fascinated by addiction. Has anyone read David Shaff's book "Beautiful Boy" about his son's addiction? And his son's memoir?

I remember reading the NY Mag story when it first came out and the book review (both father and son wrote books) this weekend.

I don't know if I can get through the book (that piece alone was pretty damn depressing...talk about impotent helplessness) but it'd be interesting to read them both.

Addiction provides its own realm of hell and can be its own punishment...including for those around who must watch the disintegration of someone they care for.

Sad, sad, sad.

marie123

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