Philip C. Keeling
Once located in rural towns and on the West Coast, meth has erupted across the United States and is now devastating countless families, children and neighborhoods.
Inside you will discover the history, effects, common slang words and prices of Methamphetamine. You will find out how Meth effects our children and our loved ones.
“Narcotics is the worst of all crimes except murder and perhaps even more offensive to society than murder itself.
In the case of murder you take away the life of a fellow human being. In the case of distributing narcotics, you take the mind of the individual and make his life intolerable for the good of his own soul.” President Franklin Roosevelt - 1940
Read my book and find out the facts about Methamphetamine and what you can do to protect yourself and the ones you love.
I was born in Westminster, California in 1972. I went to college at Kaplan university. I currently reside in Pawnee, Oklahoma and have four wonderful children. My law enforcement career consists of 14 years. I started my career as a detention officer at the Pawnee County Sheriffs Office and then joined the United States Marine Corps. There I was assigned as a Military Police Officer. After the Marine Corps I worked the streets as a patrolman. By 2003, I started working as an undercover agent with the District 10 Drug Task Force, in Oklahoma. I spent 4 years working as an undercover narcotics agent and worked over 500 cases involving Methamphetamine. I am currently in Afghanistan working as a police advisor and training Afghanistan recruits at an academy.
Chapter 2: Effects of Methamphetamine
When meth is used occasionally, a user’s body has some time to recover. However, prolonged use causes a person’s body chemicals to become depleted, and systems shut down to allow the body to replenish one’s energy supplies. Depression can last for several days, weeks, or even months depending on the length of the use, strength of the drug, and the extent of biochemical disruption. Meth copies the action of adrenaline and dopamine. One’s feelings of increased alertness, agitation (flight-or-fight mode), and exhilaration or euphoria are a result of using the drug. Feelings of panic, paranoia, hallucinations, rage, seizures and stroke occurs when there is too much stimulation.
Some of the long-term physical tolls of crystal meth can be severe, including the following:
• Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
• Anxiety organ damage (particularly to the lungs, liver, and kidneys) after long-term use
• Lowered resistance to disease
• Depression
• Chronic fatigue
• Delusions
• Toxic psychosis after prolonged, heavy use
• Addiction emotional swings
Symptoms increase with long-term use of crystal meth and can involve paranoid delusions and hallucinations. Violence and self-destructive behavior are common. Overdose is also a risk with crystal. Symptoms include fever, convulsions, and coma. Death can result from burst blood vessels in the brain (triggered by spikes in blood pressure) or heart failure.
What are the immediate (short-term) effects of methamphetamine use?
As a powerful stimulant, methamphetamine, even in small doses, can increase wakefulness and physical activity and decrease appetite. A brief, intense sensation, or rush, is reported by those who smoke or inject methamphetamine. Oral ingestion or snorting produces a long-lasting high instead of a rush, which reportedly can continue for as long as half a day. Both the rush and the high are believed to result from the release of very high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine into areas of the brain that regulate feelings of pleasure.
Short-term effects of methamphetamine:
• Increased attention
• Decreased fatigue
• Increased activity
• Decreased appetite
• Euphoria and rush
• Increa
