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by exassaty828 on May 25th, 2005

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Why is smoking methamphetamine so much more addictive than any other forms of doing it?

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  • by riffraff814 on May 30th, 2005

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    This is actually true of virtually any drug that can be smoked or otherwise ingested.

    If you need to eat the drug (pot brownies, opium plants, mushrooms), there's a time lapse between ingesting the drug and when it gets into your bloodstream, and then when it gets up to your brain for the effects to begin.

    Smoking the drug puts it rather immediately into your bloodstream, and some blood fresh from the lungs goes straight to the brain, rather than wandering from the stomach to the lungs and then up.

    Snorting meth is usually quite fast in terms of reaction, simply because the blood around the nose is near the brain, and the drugs are likely to cross the blood-brain barrier. Snorting crystals of anything, however, damages the sinuses. Not irreparably, but a lot more than putting smoke into your lungs damages them. So, snorting is self-limiting in that way.

    I'd wager that shooting up meth would rival smoking it in terms of addiction, it's just not commonly done.

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    • look up online recent studies. recovering meth smokers have the highest relapse rate next to herion.

      exassaty828

      by exassaty828 on May 31st, 2005

    • Good answer.

      Jodie44

      by Jodie44 on August 12th, 2006

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