REAL STORIES

The truth about Meth is more powerful than any fictionalized account. These stories are real-life accounts of how Meth has brought pain, suffering, and havoc to people's lives. In some cases names have been changed to protect the identity of the afflicted, but the anguish and tragedy are real. Too real to ignore.

ANONYMOUS STORIES

Female, 19 - To me meth can be a monster that lives inside and grows slowly...
Male, 16 - We barely speak to him and my parents say he is no longer their son...
Female, 18 - She is completely grateful for getting caught when she did...
Female, 31 - I grew up in a family of addicts...
Female, 20 - My dad is serving a ten year prison sentence for trafficking meth...
Male, 18 - I have found 3 meth pipes in her room in the last 2 years...
Female, 18 - I was devastated that he was gone despite his abuse...
Female, 22 - There is no happy ending to a meth addiction...
Female, 21 - That one hit began my new life as a drug addict...
Female, 18 - She kept saying that "they" were going to kill her...
Female, 17 - I loved it even though I was raped by my cousin's boyfriend...
Male, 48 - My story ends in Caldwell, ID...
Male, 43 - My wife didn't want to quit so she left me and the kids to go back...
Female, 31 - My life on Meth? Chaotic and pathetic...
Female, 31 - I had to pee in front of people to test if I was still using...
Female, 27 - I knew my mom did drugs when I was in the 3rd grade...
Male, 30 - I am one of the few with meth-induced psychosis...
Male, 37 - And the voices came along with hallucinations that were terrifying...
Female, 26 - Staying up for weeks at a time I finally lost it...
Female, 17 - We tried lifting him up but he broke his neck. He died that night...
Female, 25 - Everything else I lost I can replace, but time I just can't...
Female, 22 - That's when I realized I had made the biggest mistake of my life...
Male, 18 - I am scared to leave my house ...
Female, 20 - I always had to be snorting it day and night...
Male, 16 - I watched my mom bleed to death that day in that church parking lot...
Female, 32 - After a few more years of use, I contracted Hepatitis C...
Female, 15 - His body changed, he got skinny and he smelled way bad...
Female, 20 - I was living a dream and before I knew it, it was a nightmare...
Female, 18 - I wrote a story about a month ago and wanted to update everyone...
Female, 32 - I would have rather shot up than hang out with my kids...
Female, 36 - My older sister introduced me to the drug...
Female, 14 - My mom and grandma are always crying...
Female, 33 - Which means I am selfish, self-centered, irresponsible & unstable...
Female, 29 - I was raped by my half brother at age 12...
Male, 39 - At this time I was slamming beyond a gram of meth in one sitting...
Female, 38 - I did not want meth - it had made me be the person I hated...
Female, 45 - My daughter tried meth once. She lost her children because of this...
Male, 16 - I do love my mom it's just I can't stand her when she's detoxing...
Female, 25 - It was like, no one liked me, unless I was high...
Female, 18 - I went and volunteered for the Idaho meth project...
Female, 38 - This jail has been a revolving door for me for twelve years...
Female, 31 - It breaks my heart more than he will ever know to be away from him...
Female, 17 - My mom started using meth when I was nine...
Female, 29 - I started using meth because I had struggled with eating disorders...
Female, 50 - I used and used and didn't eat, didn't drink water...
Female, 22 - I had to use meth throughout my pregnancy...
Female, 25 - I had my first child at 16 I never finished school...
Female, 22 - Being the person I am I said I will do it "just once."...
Female, 32 - I thank God every day that he gave me the strength to overcome...
Male, -- - Don't come crying to me I'll turn away...
Female, 22 - For the next 11 years I was a slave to meth...
Female, 40 - My husband didn't know I was behind on our bills...
Female, 15 - Halloween night was the first time she left and didn't come back...
Female, 17 - He never raped me, then meth came into our relationship...
Female, 17 - I would start freaking out on my mom and whoever was around me...
Female, 30 - I remember yelling at him, if you kill me, you kill your child!!...
Female, 41 - I work for 90¢ an hour at jobs no self-respecting person would do...
Female, 29 - I started using meth because I had struggled with eating disorders...
Female, 23 - I see meth addicts everyday now. It's sick...
Male, 17 - I've been addicted to meth for 4 years and I can't stop using it...
Female, 26 - My life was a whirlwind of incarceration, men, prostitution...
Female, 20 - I began stealing money from my parents to support my habit...
Male, 16 - My mother started using meth when I was 14...
Female, 49 - Our son has lost half his lung and almost his life...
Female, 30 - By 1998 I had 4 children and was snorting meth pretty much every day...
Female, 27 - I moved in with some people who I had no idea who they were...
Female, 29 - When I go I don't come home for weeks sometimes months...
Female, 41 - I have memory problems and problems with depression...
Female, 31 - They found meth in my car and I went to jail...
Female, 17 - My mom and I used to be so close...
Female, 24 - I was an I.V. meth user for about a year and half...
Male, 24 - I began smoking and drinking at the ripe old age of 9...
Female, 16 - He made it seem like it was the best thing in the world...
Male, 18 - I am behind the Idaho Meth Project 100%...
Female, 15 - I need to get away and the only way he could was to kill himself...
Female, 30 - My sister is 34 and all 6 of her kids have been taken away...
Male, 45 - I have been clean for 11 years now...
Male, 29 - One day I sat in my dark room, sobbed uncontrollably...
Male, 14 - Since I was young, my father had used meth...
Female, 18 - There's lots of different names for it...
Male, 39 - The hold that meth has on someone's life is forever...
Female, 20 - Once again things spiraled downward faster this time...
Female, 14 - Teenagers are willing to do just about anything to fit in...
Female, 23 - I am a 5th grade teacher in a very low income area...
Male, 26 - I am writing this in hope that I may reach in and touch your soul...
Male, 24 - All my friends were on their way to prison or in jail...
Female, 20 - I hate meth and what it's doing to people I love...
Female, 24 - I was hanging out with dirty old men to get drugs...
Female, 26 - I never believed how fast the world of meth could suck you in...
Female, 25 - But I'm dying from AIDS I picked up in prostitution...
Female, 30 - It was hell for me to lose everything...
Female, 14 - When my dad was gone I had to referee for my mom and my brother...
Female, 24 - In reality, I just wanted to stay home and smoke meth...
Female, 40 - I lost my husband. My children disowned me and so did my family...
Female, 34 - My best friend and her 11 month old baby were murdered for drugs...
Female, 29 - Moving far away from him was the best thing I could have done...
Female, 17 - He got taken in for a meth lab in his house...
Female, 16 - My dad started using meth when I was 6...
Female, 17 - One of my best friends began using meth two years ago...
Female, 40 - I found myself smoking meth from a light bulb...
Male, 36 - At age 19 I started using crank, coke, acid, weed, this is after alcohol...
Female, 16 - I cry myself to sleep because of how many people I have lost to meth...
Male, 29 - I started using meth at 13 years old...
Male, 14 - My best friend since 1st grade was on meth since 3rd grade...
Female, 20 - This drug had a hold of my mind, my soul, my life...
Female, 72 - I am a mother of a son who died from using Meth...
Female, 38 - The misconception many have about drug addicts, is that they...
Female, 25 - I have been a Meth addict since I was fifteen years old...
Male, 28 - Jail, std's, rotten teeth, loss of virginity, body sores from picking...
Female, 27 - My ex-husband had been trying to convince me for months to try Meth just once...
Male, 46 - I started using Meth while working as a bouncer at a local bar...
Female, 15 - I have a friend who is addicted to meth...
Female, 21 - By the time I was 13 I was smoking crank with my mom.
Female, 12 - I was 8 the first time I ever tried meth...
Male, 20 - After a while on crystal, I couldn't even go to school, I was so spun out...
Female, 37 - I was strung out before I knew what strung out meant...
Female, 26 - All it took is one needle, then two, then three...
Female, 33 - My first try was when a co-worker offered me a snort when I was 16...
Female, 20 - I used to think Meth was a social drug...
Female, 26 - I was 13 the first time I put a needle in my arm...
Female, 24 - My husband is the result of a meth addicted mother...
Female, 28 - I started using meth when I was 14 years old. I have been a continuous I.V. user...
Male, 18 - I first started using meth when I was 15 years old...
Male, 48 - I was an addicted meth user for ten years and have been clean for over fifteen...
Male, 45 - My wife is a recovering addict. She was a meth user for many years...
Female, 17 - When I was seven my mother started using meth and that's all she ever did...
Female, 30 - I started using Meth when I was 17 and used for more than 10 years...