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I can hardly believe this is the same woman. :^( I don't find this funny. Just incredibly sad.

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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 11:35 PM
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I can hardly believe this is the same woman. :^( I don't find this funny. Just incredibly sad.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 11:40 PM
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1. My dear GreenPartyVoter...
I'm with you.........incredibly sad. Meth must be awfully addictive for her to care so little about her looks, and no doubt, her health.

What a waste of a life...

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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 06:29 AM
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2. Well...they grind their teeth to dust. That accounts for the sunken cheeks.
She doesn't even have the open oozing sores that many of them have.

She started hacking off her own hair with house scissors obviously.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:02 AM
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5. I was wondering how her cheecks became so sunken.
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 04:24 PM
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8. That being part of a larger condition known as "meth mouth".
Edited on Sat Jun-12-10 04:25 PM by Chan790
Smoking meth dries out the mouth which leads to disease as saliva acts to prevent decay. Further, saliva acts as a mild lubricant meaning this dry mouth acts to worsen the already-present grinding behavior which damages the teeth, damage which then allows further decay and compromising of the teeth; it's a nasty spiral.

In severe cases, the teeth die and turn black; or shatter from the combination of being cavity-riddled and ground; or infection sets into the bone requiring surgery and/or dramatic measures to prevent further morbidity or rarely heart-disease from endocarditis caused by anaerobic bacteria living in this dental sewer.

I have a friend who is now clean from drugs who at 32 is facing having what few live teeth he has extracted by the time he is 40 and being fitted for dentures...he's missing most of his molars and suffers from too-severe of bone-loss for dental implants to be a viable option.
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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 06:29 AM
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3. How sad. nt
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 06:59 AM
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4. Do meth, get your hair done in bad looking bangs.
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 03:59 PM
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6. "This is your hair on meth"
That would probably be a more effective slogan.
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jazzelle Donating Member (162 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 04:22 PM
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7. Damn....no drug is worth that
scary
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 04:32 PM
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9. Even in the first picture, she looks like a tweaker to me.
Guess they couldn't find any actual "before" shots? :evilfrown:
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kimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 04:41 PM
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10. Aw, that's just too sad.
And it's a very effective poster too. Should be hanging in every middle and high school in the country.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 08:59 PM
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13. That's why I showed it to both my boys today.
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mokawanis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 05:00 PM
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11. I've taken care of heavy meth users
and to me they are the worst cases. One patient I cared for used to try, repeatedly, to pick up tiles from the floor and couldn't understand why he couldn't lift them. He also spent a lot of time trying to open locked doors by inserting a full-sized sheet of typing paper into the lock. Meth is, imo, one of the worst drugs, on a par with huffing.
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AngryOldDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 05:45 PM
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12. There are no words to describe meth.
And whoever concocted it has a special place in HELL waiting for them.

In my time working in a homeless shelter, I would see women like this all the time. They would first come in, some really pretty, and then disappear for awhile. When they came back, the change in their appearance was often breathtakingly horrifying, and you could tell that the drug was also having a psychological impact -- at first they were relatively stable, but as their addictions grew they were often violent and unpredictable.

How very, very sad...
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snailly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 09:20 PM
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14. I see this woman's picture on other websites and just feel so sad
So many people make fun of her but they don't stop to think about the horror that is going on in her own mind. What led her to take this path? I just feel so sorry for her and hope she has some peace.

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