The Meth Epidemic (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

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This 2011 film investigates how and why meth use spiraled out of control and contributed to the drug abuse problem in America.

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@satt131313 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

I’m not sure I would call it the most addictive drug. I might say CRACK. The rush only lasts minutes. One hit of meth goes for hours. Not the rush but the high.

@MarciaThompson-n4n March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Executives at the pharmaceutical companies r soulless devils 😢

@D.T.A1 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

TRUMP, I HOPE AND PRAY WILL HELP STOP THIS EPIDEMIC … I REALLY BELIEVE HE WANTS TO HELP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

@KrisianIan March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

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@letsbuildasnowman7058 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

I like how the documentary tells everyone how to make shake and bake haha

@jaakkooksa5374 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

27:11 How can this be legal? Has the Fourth Amendment been canceled?

@jcreajr March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

The usual in Amerika…money over the welfare of its citizens.

@chadleebeel2013 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

why is sobriety not the cure?

@3noord3 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

The DEA guy saying we solved the problem of quaaludes, we beat the cartels. No you did not beat them, you forced them to move on to other drugs. The problem of cartels is not solved in the least sense.

@Jaguar1314 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Lobbyist are the scourge of the earth.

@Kyle-k7g March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Bro this s*** is easy to quit quit lying

@streamdream8310 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Congratulations on the last 14 years its got worse and now for the first time in the UK, more drugs then ever before on the market, quick question who pocketed the billions?

@Lo51848 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Meth, fentanyl, crack epidemics : how come? In the richest, most powerful country in the world… something is wrong

@RayleneOpal March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

It sad that most of the hillusions are man made

@cedricksamaniego9146 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

This is the most dumbest drug at least for me. I'm more of a 🍄guy😂

@GummerHummerQueen March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

I know 3 men and 1 woman have used off & one for over 20 years. They are by no means rich but they hold down long term employment with outside corporations and can do mini vacation from tome to time They have the Southern kindnes stype of personalities to different degrees, of course, but overall they're definitely good people I've been seeing this for a long time from middle school, I'm 49 now , I've witnessed is that the shows tend to exaggerate or they only talk about the worst of the worst in the situations. T always did the same thing and they found out that it probably did more harm than they did and now it's not much of a program anymore or at all. It is very rare that is only one drug that is plaguing an addicted, that caused the bad sores, walking around acting odd & saying extra weird stuff. weight loss and greasy hair and everything else like that and death

First and foremost though there is definitely reasons other than the purity of it, situations in regards to the economy have a lot to do with the two.

@chandler-yx4xp March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Thats why you use crack and not meth . Crack is all natural and shit .

@ElizabethWagner-f6m March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Whatever is done addicts and drug dealers will find a way. 2 years ago, my grandson sat right in my living room and said, " Grandma, everybody does meth. Everybody."

@Tanker4202 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

One thing that need to made clear is, Meth addiction is not about the massive dopamine rush that gets you high.
Addiction is what happens after.
After that massive high, your brain at the cellular level detects that something has happened it wasn't designed for and it changes how it operates to keep that from happening again.
This means that your brain chemistry changes to make getting high more difficult (tolerance) resulting in a lower state of arousal at baseline (refractory depression).
With each use, the brain attempts to adapt making the refractory depression worse.
That means addiction quickly (very quickly) changes from positive reinforcement to negative reinforcement.
Negative reinforcement is "what will you give me if I stop crushing your penis with these vice grips."

@Raz.C March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

The narrator hasn't even completed his first paragraph yet and already he's started lying!

Methamphetamine might be addictive, but 'addictive' in the way that McDonalds can be 'addictive.' In other words, you can love it so much, that you don't want to "eat" anything else. But, of course, there are times when you can't afford to eat McDonalds, so you just eat normal food until pay day comes around again. During this interval, you're not suffering any real discomfort. You might find that you're torturing yourself, by refusing to think of anything else and fixating on how much happier you'd be if you were eating McDonalds right now but the remedy is simple; If you can't use an act of willpower to stop fixating on your desired outcome, you can find someone/ something to distract yourself.

Heroin is the most addictive illicit drug! Some might argue that cocaine is more addictive. Either way, these two drugs are PHYSICALLY addictive. That means you're actually physically addicted to the drug and not having that drug results in the experience of painful withdrawal symptoms. Tortuously painful. Painful, agonising torture! I used to say "I wouldn't wish withdrawal symptoms on my worst enemy/ person I hated most." As I've grown, I've amended that to "I would only wish the experience of withdrawal symptoms on certain law enforcement officers and on every politician in the world!" After all, if politicians are going to legislate around these things and if police are going to enforce various related laws, then they should have first-hand knowledge of the driving factor behind most addict's behaviour.

If we're talking, now, about legal drugs, then alcohol can rightfully be said to be the single most addictive drug ever known to man! What's more, sudden cessation of alcohol consumption- for an alcoholic- can result in sudden death! Same for benzodiazepines (it might be barbiturates, though. I often get these two confused. I can't remember which one has withdrawal symptoms that include Sudden Death!) Even if withdrawal from benzos is NOT potentially fatal, the withdrawals are said to be far, Far, FAR worse than anything experienced in withdrawing from heroin/ cocaine.

TLDR – Whether we're talking about illegal drugs, or legal drugs, addiction is a SERIOUS problem with serious consequences. People "addicted" to meth often have a whole host of their own problems, but physical addiction with its associated withdrawal symptoms are not among these problems. I have as much respect for people saying they're addicted to meth, as I do for people saying that they're addicted to McDonalds. Contrast that with the peerless respect I have for people who confess to an addiction to heroin/ cocaine and who then seek treatment for said…

@Raz.C March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

re – 4:20
No, mate – It's NOT like a hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear weapon. It's much more like a chemical reaction that approximates a bomb – an exothermic reaction where oxidation/ combustion is also present, thus resulting in the rapid build-up of many HOT gases. Factor into this the knowledge that any gas under increasing pressure, will also generate increasing temperatures and you have your "bomb."

The main difference being – As a bomb, this process is WILDLY inefficient. If all your reagents were tailored for use in a bomb, you'd have a VASTLY more energetic reaction, producing FAR more hot gases from more dense reactants, resulting in more BOOM for your buck.

@Razamataz611 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

No judgment, freedom of choice. 40 year's later. No judgment, freedom of choice to reap what you've sown . It all depends on individuality, the freedom of our laws, based on I'm an individual, one of a kind, i have human rights that allow me to do what I chose. I have a right to my own well being as i see fit. And, I'll chose what I think should be chosen for me. This free will is my God given right. No one person is exactly alike. Im one of a kind . Im free to do what i like. I like meth, or dope, i like weed to smoke. I feel good on drugs. I've learned this on my own. No one ever had to teach me how to like drugs and how to chose the ones I like. No school, no church, no books, no way. This is my life this is what I've chosen to know. It what is own. I didn't no one to show me how to make a choice that have now. I've earned all of this, all on my my own. It is mine, like someones home. Yes, yes, yes, what i made for me is what i own. By my own free will, I'm free to choose. Because, no one could possibly chose my freedom of choice. My free will. And, that's the choice we all have. Do not force one of choice, their human right, nor interfere nor give advice, that's not nice, to assume you know what's best for someone else and their free choice. Just like you want for you, it just respect. For everyone all individuals. Get it. ?! Makes perfect sense. Doesn't it…? According, to our living standards in this time of this century. In other words ….. I CERTAINLY DIDN'T INTERFERE WITH ANOTHERS, CHOICE. I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T CHOSE WHAT THEY SEE RIGHT. FOR THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO ENJOY THIER LIFE WITH WA6 CHOSE. IT IS CALLED HUMAN RIGHTS. HAVE A NICE DAY. TODAY I LL CHOOSE WHATS GOOD ME, WHAT I SEE FIT, WHAT you FEEL WHAT IS RIGHT. JUST like ME. MY INDIVIDUALITY, MY INDIVIDUAL RIGHT. I WILL DO WHAT I LIKE TO DO. AND YOU WILL DO WHAT YOU SAID YOU LIKE TO DO. IT'S…. ALL….. FOR….. YOU.,…,. WHAT YOU CHOOSE….. IT FALLS RIGHT ON YOU…… IT'S WHAT YOU CHOSE. IT'S WHAT YOU LIKE . We all have this choice. Freedom of will. Freedom of choice. Get it.??? So, im gonna go over there. Bye. Try to Enjoy your human right. It'll soon be night.

@theDoctorium March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

The solution is to believe in the one God, to believe in Islam, to apply its commands, and to have good upbringing that creates generations that do not believe in this filth. No matter how hard you try to prevent this filth, while people are morally and ideologically lost, your efforts will not succeed. When your God is not the dollar, and good morals are the way children are raised, this problem will end.

@Alabaster_Joness March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Cheers to Mr. Suo. Top notch investigative reporting

@karte2626 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Please, somebody send this information to the cheeto guy (trump).

@danielmokori6032 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

U are a lia lets hear her say that

@oneseeker2 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

No gloves!

@Antun-vb5yx March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

This is now in Croatia last few years before only clasic hash speed mdma coke heroin no meth

@gillianreyes-allen9524 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

All compliments to " Squeak" The CIA thought they were only going destroy the American Natives and African Americans with this but it backfired big time 🤫

@Crocodonkey March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

This is a holy chemical structure, it is not made for ordinary people. Please stop stigmatizing what u can't /don't want to understand ❤

@Susan-n6q March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Meth is a very nasty drug!!you sweat out of every pore,your mouth dries out and breath stinks, teeth decay,then you can't sleep, can't eat

@frankiereid8240 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

I can’t help but think, for meth users, they aren’t very tidy🤔piles of rubbish, whaaat

@mouseandryforever6848 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Meth is the worst drug out there. I watch people who use it and what it does to them.

@FloydBothke March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

😊 all you can do is pray

@FloydBothke March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

😊 message stolen and is still stealing my children call mother from them what weight loss of time that you will never get back again

@ajoseph7666 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

How did they know he was on the bus is the real question. Unconditional is what it is

@markk8903 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Been on a binge watching these documentaries and they always involve lobbying groups, and they always get what they want at the cost of the public. Lobbying is a cancer on society

@johndyson4109 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

That's so typical of the Spanish-speaking countries below Texas. They don't give a shit about anything, especially the cartels and even the government. You are supposed not to be able to buy more than 3 boxes of ephedrine tablets but you can buy as many as you want. See, they don't give a SHIT about anyone but themselves in many aspects.. Corruption to the core, the U.S. has corruption to but not at that DEGREE!

@johndyson4109 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

Seeing those before and after pictures makes me really sad. They don't look very happy but they continue to use it because the pleasure chemicals in their brains control their actions.. I'm so glad I quit Crack over a year and a half ago.. Now I drink some beer. I'm into doing things again instead of waiting for that next friggin hit! Crystal has not really hit Vermont yet thank God! The police around here stay right on top of it..

@dancaptain2055 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

2:24 can I step in and talk to you? Uh no you can't without a warrant bro

@VinnyLealcruz-p3d March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

❤x3 puntos muertos

@roberto0561 March 16, 2025 - 9:52 am

The teeth it’s always the rotten decaying missing black teeth

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