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Methamphetamine


            Methamphetamine (C10H15N) is a powerfully addictive drug. The chemical structure of methamphetamine is Acetone, .
             Anhydrous Ammonia, Drian cleaner, Battery Acid, Lye, Freon, Antifreeze, and Coleman Fuel, it is also similar to the drug amphetamine. .
             That is made very easliy in clandestine laboratories with inexpensive over-the-counter ingredients. Since the methamphetamine is very .
             cheap to make it is a drug with high potental for widespread abuse. In 1887 in Germany they discovered the drug methamphetamine, but .
             nothing was done with the drug from it's discovery until the 1920s. When they found out that it could cure or treat againist almost .
             everything from depression to decongestion. But in the 1930s it was marketed as an over-the- counter inhaler to treat nasal congestion, .
             after a period of time people started to abuse the drug to get a buzz of it. By 1937 it was available in a tablet form. .
             The uses of methamphetamine is to give the person a rush to the body that effects it up to 6 to 8 hours before losing the rush. .
             When you are in that state of having the rush some people it can lead to violent behavior during the period of time. When it is in the body .
             it can increase wakefulness, and physical activity, and it can also decrease the person's appeite. There is different ways people can uses .
             metamphetamine, and they have different names for them when it is used different ways. When it is swallowed or sniffed it is called .
             "speed" or "crystal" when you snort it, it can cause irrtation and bleeding from the nose. It is injected into the body it is called "crank" .
             when it is injected it there are puncture wounds that can be seen over the blood vessels and it can cause great damage to the skin tissue. .
             When it is smoked it is called "ice" or "glass". All the forms of using metamphetamine are extremely dangerous and some of the effect .
             are short-term, and some are long-term lasting.
             The effects that methamphetamine are different, because some of the effects are short-term and some are long-term.


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