Since I have started school at U.N.R, I have been expose to a more variety of drugs than
high school. Speed (Methylamphtamine) is a drug that I totally despise. I was in shock
because I did not realize how many students were addicts to this drug. I have always
known what this drug does to people because I know someone that is addict to speed. The
drug is one of the most addicting drugs out there and I hope the information I have
researched on can make you never think twice about trying this addicting drug.
Speed is a stimulant, a drug that can make one feel cheerful and wide awake for days
after days. Students use the drug for intensive study habits or during depressing
moments of school. On Speed, users never want to eat because the drug shrivels up their
stomach that causes massive weight loss. One of the reasons' women use the drug is to
lose weight, which is an extremely unhealthy way of doing it. What Speed does is it
effects the middle nervous system, and stimulates the brain. The drug causes insomnia,
restlessness, and a fake sense of acting normal. People either snort the drug up the
nose or smoke it through the mouth. After staying up for days on Speed the drug where's
off and a person will sleep for days, there is a larger fatigue and one will be so damn
depressed.
I stopped talking to a friend because he was so addicted to this horrible drug called
Speed. One thing I noticed is he was a totally different person when he was using speed.
Whenever he was high on the drug he was a great guy with all this incredible energy,
nothing would ever possibly make him upset. Though when the drug wore off he was so
grouchy that no one could stand a single bit of being around him. Every little thing you
did when he was coming down on Speed annoyed him and it made me wonder if I was wrong at
times. I remember a group of us walking through the mall one day and we were teasing him
about some girl he was courting at the time. He had not been on the drug at the time and
was upset he couldn't find any because he was so addicted. The next thing you know he
was trying to fight me in the middle of the whole mall. My other friends had to hold him
down on the ground because he was so out of control. Till that day I have always thought
that people exaggerated on how addicting and nerve wrecking the drug could be.
Apparently for me to realize how addicting the drug could be was I had to witness it
first hand by someone I knew.
I never knew till this research that using Speed can cause heart failure, increases
blood-pressure, disorientation and even cause one to hallucinate. I have noticed first
hand that when a person is in denial about being addicted to the drug is when they are
addicted. My friend used the drug for so long that he even knew how to disguise his
addiction so good. Every time I explained him that the drug controlled him, he would
just deny it. He would always say, "There are users and there are abusers and all I am
is a user."
It is a horrible fact that students at this school often use Speed before and during
exams. I can understand that one needs to stay alert and ready during exam time, but
the only reason students use the drug is because of their bad study habits. When
studying, the drug will keep you so wired and you will study more in one hour than you
ever could before. This drug will sure enough change one's personality to the extreme.
People use the drug for all sorts of reasons. Often times when people can not keep up
with their work, need to lose weight, depressed, insecure, loneliness and insecure about
themselves.
Over all I feel sad about this whole issue and I wish the drug would be demolished off
the face of this world. After all the trauma people in this society go through some
people let a yellowish powder substance control their lives. I feel drugs in our society
is a big issue and people need to pull together to stay drug free. In my opinion the war
on drugs is the war on people. Drugs have always been in our society forever and I feel
the best thing we as people can do is just educate our youth of the dangers of drugs. I
just feel that people will always be exposed to drugs as a metaphor to there are good
choices and there are bad choices. What made me write this paper is that students on
this campus use this drug and it is a problem we as people can not ignore. I hope some
of my personnel experiences and facts I have mentioned about this drug can be a learning
experience for you and keep you from trying it.
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