part of my paper
Skeletal lines, jaundice yellow, evil little breezes up the nose. One inhale, awesome, mean, tiny hammer blows to the brain. As I’m locked in a cage of dreamless sleep, a place where only the monster, can drop you so hard.- Crank by Ellen Hopkins. This is an excerpt from a book that I think everyone should read if they really know what if feels like to be on the monster or as we know all know it as, Meth.
When you are high on this drug you don’t see the reality, you don’t feel or see the emotions yourself or the people around you are feeling. You feel as if your on top of the world, and you can do anything but really your falling harder and faster into the bottom of a place you don’t want to be in.
And your taking everyone you love into this horrible place, even the people who look up to you every day, your children.
Meth is having an enormous afftect on our economy. Every year more and more children are being taken away from their parents whos lives are being controlled by this drug. There isn’t enough housing or foster parents or shelters, and a lot of children end up staying with their grandparents who don’t always have enough time left to be there for these kids.
From the ages of 8 to 12 my mother was a meth addict. We went from living in a brand new house in a nice neighborhood, to being homeless and living at a meth infested campground for 3 months. I don’t really even know how it happened, but my life changed completely from it. I saw the effects of what this can do to someone you love, and that it takes everything away from you.
Methamphetamine or Chrystal Meth is made from many things found under your kitchen sink. Things like draino, cleaning supplies and lithium. Because this has become such an epidemic pharmacy’s and places like target and walmart cant sell over the counter medicines that people will buy in bulk to cook up this stuff. I read in The faces of meth from cbsnews.com that people have gone into a meth users house and there will be a jar full of meth oil in the refrigerator but no milk or bread for their children.
Growing up where I did while my mom was an addict, everyone around us was too. My next door nieghbors mom was and her 2 year old daughter Sonny walked around outside barefoot with nothing but a daiper on and still hasn’t said her first word. Their house had no walls, with insulation everywhere. They didn’t have a floor in their kitchen, there was a piece of wood you had to walk across to get to the refrigerator, which never had any food inside. At night we would have to hide behind the couches while the police would knock on the door and flash their flashlights inside looking for our parents who were out on and all night meth binge.
Nationally, authorities have dismantled more than 50,000 clandestine meth labs since 2001. Roughly 30 percent were "mom and pop" labs in homes where children live. - David Cary cbsnews.com.
And more and more of these labs are being busted everyday, and more and more children are left without parents. I was lucky that my dad finally got custody of my little brother and I about 2 months before my mom left for treatment. It is estimated that children live in about 50% of Minnesota drug labs according to the minnesota department of health.
When you are high on this drug you don’t see the reality, you don’t feel or see the emotions yourself or the people around you are feeling. You feel as if your on top of the world, and you can do anything but really your falling harder and faster into the bottom of a place you don’t want to be in.
And your taking everyone you love into this horrible place, even the people who look up to you every day, your children.
Meth is having an enormous afftect on our economy. Every year more and more children are being taken away from their parents whos lives are being controlled by this drug. There isn’t enough housing or foster parents or shelters, and a lot of children end up staying with their grandparents who don’t always have enough time left to be there for these kids.
From the ages of 8 to 12 my mother was a meth addict. We went from living in a brand new house in a nice neighborhood, to being homeless and living at a meth infested campground for 3 months. I don’t really even know how it happened, but my life changed completely from it. I saw the effects of what this can do to someone you love, and that it takes everything away from you.
Methamphetamine or Chrystal Meth is made from many things found under your kitchen sink. Things like draino, cleaning supplies and lithium. Because this has become such an epidemic pharmacy’s and places like target and walmart cant sell over the counter medicines that people will buy in bulk to cook up this stuff. I read in The faces of meth from cbsnews.com that people have gone into a meth users house and there will be a jar full of meth oil in the refrigerator but no milk or bread for their children.
Growing up where I did while my mom was an addict, everyone around us was too. My next door nieghbors mom was and her 2 year old daughter Sonny walked around outside barefoot with nothing but a daiper on and still hasn’t said her first word. Their house had no walls, with insulation everywhere. They didn’t have a floor in their kitchen, there was a piece of wood you had to walk across to get to the refrigerator, which never had any food inside. At night we would have to hide behind the couches while the police would knock on the door and flash their flashlights inside looking for our parents who were out on and all night meth binge.
Nationally, authorities have dismantled more than 50,000 clandestine meth labs since 2001. Roughly 30 percent were "mom and pop" labs in homes where children live. - David Cary cbsnews.com.
And more and more of these labs are being busted everyday, and more and more children are left without parents. I was lucky that my dad finally got custody of my little brother and I about 2 months before my mom left for treatment. It is estimated that children live in about 50% of Minnesota drug labs according to the minnesota department of health.