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The White Devil
She still comes back to visit him often. She comes back in the middle of the night, when he wakes up fearing the worst, just to find out it was all a dream and he is still straight. See, my husband was addicted to methamphetamine from 1978 to 2000. "She" is what my husband refers to methamphetamine as. He has been clean now for almost 4 years. Methamphetamine took years off his life, with a bad liver now and he faced prison time too, in 1999. He lost his family (with his dad being the one responsible for my husband's almost being in prison), his children (with whom he'd lost any kind of custody rights of), and most of his friends (most of his friends were heavy methamphetamine users themselves). However, he recovered. As part of his recovery, he has been giving seminars on this drug and its usage, its addiction and its aftereffects. It helps him to remember what this drug did to him and how it almost cost him his life.

Right now there is an epidemic of drugs being used by our population with the current drug of choice being methamphetamine. Methamphetamine labs are popping up everywhere and people are being arrested at an incredible rate for the making and using of this drug. Why the recent increase in methamphetamine use? Like our unquenchable thirst for roller coasters that go fast or thrilling adventure activities like bungee jumping, our taste for getting "the almighty high" is great. That rush of adrenaline is what keeps us at these activities. Methamphetamine has been around a long time but, just recently, the ingredients used to make this drug have changed. Due to government regulations, the previous ingredients are no longer as readily available to people so; they have come to find new ways to make this drug. However, the new ingredients have made this drug more addictive and gave it some more punch, so, in our dash for better thrills; use of this drug has increased.

Some people believe this increase is because selling Methamphetamine is an easy way to make a lot of money now with the ingredients being those that anyone can easily purchase at their local Wal-Mart store. The pay-off for the drug maker is huge financially. According to the drug test center (a dot.com company), methamphetamine costs the user anywhere from "$400 to $3,000 per ounce" to purchase. However, the maker of this drug only paid maybe $100 for that same ounce. It is not hard to see the advantage of being the maker of

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