Meth Stats and Other Information

• The average person cooking meth on an annual basis will teach 10 other people how to cook meth.

• Every pound of meth produced leaves at least behind 5 or 6 pounds of toxic waste.

• The average age of first use has dropped from age 22 in the mid-1990’s to about age 18 now.

• The fastest growing group of users is between 18-23 years old.

• It takes the brain 6-12 months to start to show signs of recovery from chronic meth use. Until then, you experience fatigue, depression, hallucinations, psychosis, paranoia, disturbed sleep patterns and or insomnia, tremors, uncontrollable movement similar to Parkinson Disease, and inability to think clearly.

•  User often starts to pick at their skin. resulting in open sores with infection and permanent scarring. meth also retards flow of saliva, so dental problems are common.

•  Up to 80% of children taken from labs test positive for meth.

• You can die from meth overdose. Heart rate increases, sometimes resulting in a heart attack or stroke, and temperatures increase to 108 or higher resulting in the shut down of major organs in the body.