| Meth devastates, it kills, and it ruins otherwise | | | | teens hold towards the drug, and a scary percentage |
| promising young lives. Almost half of all American | | | | do not fear the drug, and even more worrisome |
| parents never speak with their kids about the | | | | percentage sees some benefit from taking the drug. |
| dangers of meth, and reflecting this, an astonishing | | | | 33% see little harm in experimenting with crystal |
| percentage of high school kids either see little harm | | | | meth, 25% actually see some benefit to trying the |
| with trying the drug, or even worse, see some | | | | drug (weight loss, fun) and almost half of all surveyed |
| benefit. | | | | reported that their friends would not have any |
| Crystal meth is scary. Incredibly addictive recreational | | | | problem with them if they started experimenting with |
| use can so easily progress to addiction, and the | | | | crystal meth. |
| physical, mental spiritual harm done by an addiction to | | | | Teens are prone to experiment with drugs and |
| meth is beyond compare. | | | | alcohol, and parents can only do so much to protect |
| The health risks of meth | | | | their kids from the dangers that lurk outside of the |
| Meth addicts can expect greatly accelerated physical | | | | home, but neither are teens unresponsive to drug |
| aging, cognitive declines, early dementia, and a | | | | education and those teens that do get the facts |
| fantastically increased risk for a host of diseases and | | | | about meth are far less likely to report positive |
| cancers. Characteristic meth mouth is but one of the | | | | associations with the drug, and far less likely to risk |
| obvious and external signs of the damage of the | | | | addiction with casual experimentation. |
| drug, and a few years of meth use visibly ages the | | | | The job falls to parents to do a better job teaching |
| body by decades. | | | | kids of the dangers of meth and warning them of |
| The mental anguish of a meth addiction also | | | | the ease of addiction, and the lifelong battle that |
| devastates, and the high is punished with extreme | | | | would then ensue. We won’t beat meth in this |
| lows of depression and despair, and those meth | | | | country overnight, but we could do a lot to better |
| users who do manage to quit their addiction face | | | | the problem just by getting informed and speaking |
| months or even years of very intense depression | | | | with our kids about real dangers of the drug(How to |
| and dysphoria as the brain struggles to right itself | | | | beat a meth addiction). |
| from the legacy of abuse. The sad fact is that some | | | | A teen meth addiction is surely every parent's worst |
| people can never completely recover from a meth | | | | nightmare, and of all the drugs out there--and there |
| addiction. | | | | are some very destructive intoxicants--meth is by far |
| So it's very worrying when a recent survey | | | | the worse, by far the most addictive, and by far the |
| commissioned by the non profit Meth Project finds | | | | most destructive. |
| that more than half of all parents never speak to | | | | It's never a guarantee, but a few words with your |
| their kids about the dangers of crystal meth. | | | | kids can do a lot, and may just save a lifetime of |
| Scary attitudes | | | | heartbreak. |
| Perhaps even more disturbing is the attitude today's | | | | |