What is Crystal Meth
Effects
Crystal meth is a stimulant.
Using crystal meth increases your breathing, heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature. Pupils get bigger and you get a dry mouth. You have to urinate more often, you sweat more and you have stiff jaws due to increased muscle tension. Breathing is easier because your bronchi (airways) expand. Hunger and tiredness disappear like snow in the sun. You feel cheerful and full of energy, you feel like talking a lot and quickly, you are alert and you can dance or have sex all night long. You have more stamina and muscle strength. Some become more confident. Others feel restless, anxious, paranoia, irritable, or aggressive. What is also typical are the repeated movements and the moving and putting back of objects.
Positive effects
Energetic feeling
You have feelings of being energized. Sitting still is sometimes more difficult and this energetic feeling is often expressed through the urge to dance or move.
Alertness
This drug can make you more active than usual. You are feeling sharp, awkae and it is easy to focus your attention on the things that are happening around you.
Increase in self-confidence
You feel more confident. It may be easier to ignore the opinions of others, and you will feel less self-conscious about yourself and your own actions.
Need for contact, conversation and intimacy
Having a good conversation with someone, or cuddling, can be very pleasant and interesting.
(Nederlands) Verandering in tijdsperceptie
The passage of time could feel altered during drug use. Some parts of the evening fly by, while some parts feel a lot slower. When you are feeling comfortable, it can be nice that the feeling does not seem to stop. But if you feel uncomfortable, this can be a bothersome experience. So this effect can work both ways.
Mood swings
Using this drug may cause mood swings in users. These mood changes may be either positive or negative, and often alternate between extremes.
Increased libido
Increased sexual desires. You feel more attracted to others and feel a stronger need for sexual intimacy.
Accelerated thoughts
Thinking seems to go faster. It’s also easier to think clearly. You can go through certain steps in your head faster and make choices faster.
Dose and route of administration
Crystal meth can be snorted (nasally); smoked; injected (‘intravenously’ into the veins, ‘muscling’ into the muscles, ‘skin popping’ under the skin), plugged (rectal, ‘booty bumping’ without needle insertion anal) and swallowed (orally).
If you take methamphetamine orally you can dissolve a little powder in a drink, or you can put a little powder in a paper, close it and swallow (bomb). Methamphetamine also sometimes comes in pill form. In Thailand it is sold as a pill under the name Yaba.
When smoking, the methamphetamine is put in a glass pipe and heated with a lighter. Methamphetamine is also more suitable for injecting than amphetamine. This mainly happens abroad and more specifically in the US and Australia.
| Dose for swallowing | |
| Light dose | 5 – 15 mg |
| Medium dose | 10 – 30 mg |
| High dose | 20 – 60 mg |
| Dose for snorting |
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| Light dose | 5 – 15 mg |
| Medium dose | 10 – 40 mg |
| High dose | 20 – 60 mg |
| Dose for smoking |
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| Light dose | 10 – 20 mg |
| Medium dose | 10 – 40 mg |
| High dose | 30 – 60 mg |
| Dose for injecting |
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| Light dose | 5 – 10 mg |
| Medium dose | 10 – 40 mg |
| High dose | 30 – 60 mg |
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Duration
| Duration for swallowing | |
| Effects start after | 20 – 70 min |
| Peak effect | 3 – 5 hours |
| Coming down | 2 – 6 hours |
| Worn off after | 12 – 24 hours |
| Duration for snorting | |
| Effects start after | 5 – 10 min |
| Peak effect | 2 – 4 hours |
| Coming down | 2 – 6 hours |
| Worn off after | 12 – 24 hours |
| Duration for smoking | |
| Effects start after | 0 – 2 min |
| Peak effect | 1 – 3 hours |
| Coming down | 2 – 4 hours |
| Worn off after | 12 – 24 hours |
| Duration for injecting |
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| Effects start after | 0 – 2 min |
| Peak effect | 4 – 8 hours |
| Coming down | 2 – 6 hours |
| Worn off after | 12 – 24 hours |
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