Methamphetamine it is a powerful drug. It looks like disperse crystalline white solid. Other names for it are: chalk, meth, ice, among others. It was developed from it is parent amphetamine, which was used as an inhaler. However, the difference from this two is that the original one does get into the brain as much as the other does.
There are many ways of using this drug such as: inhaled, injected, smoked or orally ingested. However, for getting the effects as fast as possible it is smoked and injected. These effects only last a few minutes, but it provided a great pleasure. It can be manufactured according to NIDA with “ingredients such as pseudo-ephedrine, a common ingredient in cold medications.” Therefore, even with the limits of individual purchase that has been established, it still manages to prevail.
I love watching series and one of those it is about this drug. The name of the TV series it is “Breaking Bad” and it is about an “unsuccessful” chemistry, which with the bad news of having cancer turns to make a lot of illegal money by making this drug. At the end, it does not lead him anywhere good. In this program it presents lot of example how drugs can destroy families. Like the family of the chemistry, despite his good intentions of getting money to leave when he is gone, it brings a lot of problems to their life.
Reference:
Animeme. (2014, November 15). Do You Want to Build
a Meth Lab? (Frozen x Breaking Bad Parody/Mashup). Retrieved April 2015,
from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uty2zd7qizA
National Institute
on Drug Abuse. (2013, September). Methamphetamine. Retrieved April
2015, from NIDA:
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/methamphetamine
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