Drugs? Heres your drugs

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-meth09.html

Face of meth: Former abuser warns others

Penny Wood poses with grandson Dustin when she was 31.

Her drug-ravaged face stares out from billboards worldwide.

Enormous weight loss shows a boney, sunken face with ghost-like features.

Ratty hair, rotten teeth and a vacant expression spell out a dire warning.

Downstate grandmother Penny Wood said she often regrets allowing authorities to publicize her mugshot -- even though her permission spared her a lengthy stay in prison. But she regrets discovering methamphetamine even more.

"This drug is evil," she wrote in an e-mail to law enforcement officers.

Wood was caught manufacturing the highly addictive and destructive drug, which almost killed her. It is a drug that is being made all over rural parts of Illinois.

Methamphetamine, also known as "ice" or "crystal," is snorted, injected or smoked. A small dose can lead to a two-day high, making it more cost-effective than other drugs like cocaine, authorities say.

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[maveric]

1. Being active in that culture on and off for 30 years I must say that meth

is the absolute worst drug out there. It ravages your body and your mind.
Many a friend and aquaintance have either died, gone to prison, become hoplelssly homeless or lost their sanity due to methamphetamine.
The shit is terrible. Been there done that and seen the light.

[tridim]

5. Well, then shouldn't we dump the "marijuana is evil" PSA's

and concentrate on the real problem? Imagine that.

[DS1]

2. Dobby?

[jukes]

3. gee!

i haven't seen my sister in years!

[redqueen]

4. Good on ya

Hate the tragedy of it all, but love this thread.

[jukes]

6. hi, r/q!

:hug:

[redqueen]

7. Heya jukes

Check your PMs!

[Mojambo]

8. I've been catching that Bounty Hunter show lately

It's a nice close-up view of the kind of utterly ugly existence that these addicts live.

It's bad stuff, REALLY bad stuff.

[Shoeempress]

9. A GRANDMOTHER AT 31?! I don't think drugs were the only issue

here.

[FuzzySlippers]

10. I was thinking the same thing.

[NNN0LHI]

11. She started drinking at 11 according to the article

>>>'I started drinking at 11'

"I hung out with an older crowd and started drinking when I was just 11," Wood said. "At 12, I ran away from home with my stepfather's brother, George, who was 17.

"He provided the pot, beer and Jack Daniels that kept us giggling as we spent every day and night dodging the law.<<<

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