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"With chronic use, tolerance for meth can develop. In an effort to intensify the desired effects, users may take higher doses of the drug, take it more frequently, or change their method of drug intake."

National Drug Intelligence Center, U.S. Dept. of Justice

Age: 27
Gender: Female
Location: Mountain Home, Idaho

I started using Meth when I was 18 living in Montana. I had a hard time while I was growing up and took the bad way out. I just didn't know how to control my life and my roommate got me into the Meth. A few months after I started meth I moved to Boise. I had family here and needed the help. I was surprised how easy it was to get it. I slowed down and tried stopping. I was doing a really good job until my dad kicked me out. He has a drinking problem and I was getting in the way. I lived in the shelter for a while. About 2 days after I was there I found it once again. I used it as a way out of my problems. I got into it bad. I moved in with some people who I had no idea who they were. I lived with them for about 3 months and then moved to Nevada with one of them. That is where I really got into trouble. I don't remember much about it but I do know that I couldn't sleep. I would walk for hours on end. I always had to have it. I did things I am not proud of at all. To this day I have to live with that; afraid that the men in my life will judge me for it. I was raped 3 times in the 6 months I lived in Nevada. I moved back to Boise at that point. I starting dating someone and he thought I was getting clean. I wasn't. I was stealing money from him to support my habit. He couldn't understand why I couldn't get a job. About 7 months after we got together I realized that I didn't want that anymore. I found NA meetings and started going. It was so hard to come off of it. I had been on it for over a year at that point. Nobody told me how bad it could be. I am 27 now and I still have cravings when things in my life go bad. I have to fight it with everything I have. Remind myself that, that isn't what I want in my life. I want to be the successful person I am now. I have been clean for 7 years now. My life is so much better. It isn't worth doing that to your life. You can get past it, you can move on. You have two roads to take. Which one do you want to take?

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