I know I would never do normally. Sex things, immoral things. Meth eats away addicts' bodies, altering their brain chemistry and shutting down circulation to parts of the body not associated with feeding the high. Since many inject meth, Hepatitis C and AIDS also are a growing problem among meth users. The drug also eats away at society.
Addicts commit crimes to feed their habit and amateur labs leave behind toxic wastelands.
Meth makes people more aggressive and violent, leading to an increase in domestic violence. Meth has so devastated Montana's American Indian population that it's referred to as the small pox blankets of the new millennium, said Stephen King, clini cal supervisor at the Montana Chemical Dependency Center. They've both lost con tact with family members because of their addictions and risked their health and sanity to keep using. Piche lost a successful business in Missoula to drugs, she said, and Waldron, who would get high and then gam ble, lost most of his belongings, his wife of 11 years and his children. Like many meth addicts, they say they lost control and literally could not stop the binging and crashing cycle of meth.