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2006-09-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Why You Shouldn't Do Drugs, Part 457.....

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Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-09-15 06:33|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Years ago I saw a batch of tweekers, identified as such by someone who knew them. After watching them for a minute, I had a horrible realization. Each and every one of them had acute lead poisoning. They even had the telltale "Burton's line", a noteworthy grey black line along their gums.

Somehow, in the process of manufacturing their drug, it is most likely that a large quantity of lead acetate was introduced. Before, this was known most commonly among moonshiners, when some novice had used a car radiator to condense his distillation.

My friend also pointed out the "paradox of the tweeker": many of them work overtime at their minimum wage jobs to afford their meth, and smoke their meth so they will be able to work overtime at their minimum wage job.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-15 11:25|| 2006-09-15 11:25|| Front Page Top

#2 reminds me of a psych eval I had to do a long time a go in grad school. . .

the guy was trying to put his best foot forward. he told me that he was committed to stop his use of PCP. He said, "I know I gotta stop. My uncle's a doctor...and he told me that if I don't stop using PCP, it'll affect my memory and, um, I forgot what else he told me. . . "

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2006-09-15 12:45|| 2006-09-15 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Tweakers make up an extra large number of the cast of COPS. The jittery can't stop moving bit is kind of unnerving.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-09-15 13:45|| 2006-09-15 13:45|| Front Page Top

#4 But its hilarious when they tell the cops they've been clean for months or some other such transparent lie.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-09-15 13:45|| 2006-09-15 13:45|| Front Page Top

#5 My friend also pointed out the "paradox of the tweeker": many of them work overtime at their minimum wage jobs to afford their meth, and smoke their meth so they will be able to work overtime at their minimum wage job.

That's about as viscious as a cycle can get.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-09-15 14:15|| 2006-09-15 14:15|| Front Page Top

#6 That's about as viscious as a cycle can get.

Never watched a chain smoker, have you?

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-15 16:42|| 2006-09-15 16:42|| Front Page Top

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