FACES OF METH

I have often wondered what it feels like to be on drugs. What does it feel like to be craving for the next trip to feel invincible for a couple of hours and then be kicked back into a vicious hangover with deep depressions and other withdrawal symptoms? What does it feel like to disconnect yourself, to have no control over your actions? Always attempting to exceed the previous ecstasy. I have really no idea. The closest I've come to addiction is candy. Being full up with food still making room for a dessert. I don't think that this could possibly bear any proper relation to drug addiction. But taking a look at those faces below, I know I won't ever try to figure it out.

2.5 years later                                   1.5 years later

2.5 years later                                   3 months later

Those four people are part of the U.S. "Faces of Meth" drug prevention project, which intends to display the horrifying effects of methamphetamine consumption. Methamphetamine, or meth, is one of the fastest self-destroying drugs there is and it has high dependence potential. Due to the fact that meth is very inexpensive it can be a hazardous starter drug. Especially poor people turn to meth easily.

What puts someone up to take this drug? What puts people up to take drugs anyway?

There must be some point in their lives where they either made a deliberate decision to do it or their circumstances, their helplessness made them do it. 

Taking drugs means you intoxicate your body. On meth you feel self-confident, you feel communicative, you feel attractive and you feel invincible. You need neither sleep, nor food or drink. But this lasts only for a couple of hours. The more meth you take the more it will change who you are on the inside and outside. The drug will weaken your immune system; you will tremble, perspire and lose weight. Furthermore, it will cause skin inflammations, alopecia (loss of hair), tooth exfoliation, cardiac arrhythmias (heart problems), insomnia, paranoia and schizophrenia. You'll be aggressive. You'll become another you and this other gains the upper hand. You're not in control anymore. Meth will eat its way through your body, consume you to finally ruin you. From the pictures above one can see that those people are only the shadow of their former selves because the drug destroys them gradually. These pictures are from 2005. I don't know what happened to the people. All I know is this drug is fatal.