Look up what's in meth. It eats through you. See it everyday. We call the sores crack mites. The poison has to push itself out of the body ( it's not sweat ) and being tweekers, they pick at it continuously until it's all a seeping bloody mess. All of the fuels, etc. have to leave the body someway. Slumlord hit the nail on the head. Hate it but Heroin is really bad now also. That stuff is the Devil.................
Yes, meth heads, and we have lots of 'em here in the NC mountains, love Mountain Dew. [Funny how the different ethnic groups like different drugs. Crack for inner city Nigs, meth and oxycontin for hill billies.]
Meth heads will drink a gallon of Mountain Dew in a day. Mountain Dew has more sugar than Coca Cola and about 3 times the caffeine. So they get a cheap sugar and caffeine high, in between their ingestions of meth. And marinating the teeth in Mountain Dew all day causes tooth rot with all that sugar.
Somebody explain to me how meth does that to somebody's mouth versus other drugs??
Amphetamines, (meth,dextro, mescaline, tryptamine, cocaine, nicotine) are vasoconstrictors, as a pharmacological group.
While their basic chemical category may be different, ex. phenyletheylamines vs. tryptophan they contain amine groups.
Just like the natural vasoconstrictors, in your body -epinephrine, and norepy, - they cause the blood vessels to constrict and limit the amount of blood to that area. Over a period of time the cells die, and smoker's teeth, and gums are the result. Excess sugar really doesn't play a role here. Its role increases insulin resistance which causes wide swings in blood sugar, causing everything from lethargy to motormouth. (not getting into psychological behavioral swings).
Crack and cocaine snorting causes vasoconstriction when used in the nasal passages, and causes literal holes in the nasal septum. Shooters, see the same in the form of vein tracks.
This is why meth, cocaine, users, cannot be trusted and have no credibility. They have no idea what they said, promised, and in most cases what they have done.