What are the physical side effects of methamphetamines?

Answer 1

Taking methamphetamine can result in increased wakefulness, increased physical activity, decreased appetite, increased respiration, rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, increased blood pressure, and hyperthermia.

Other effects of methamphetamine abuse may include irritability, anxiety, insomnia, confusion, tremors, convulsions, and cardiovascular collapse and death.

Long-term effects may include paranoia, aggressiveness, extreme anorexia, memory loss, visual and auditory hallucinations, delusions, and severe dental problems.

Methamphetamine is very addictive, and people may become addicted after only a few uses. It changes the brain of the user permanently, making them less able to learn and remember, and less likely to feel excitement and pleasure during normal life; it also affects the motor skills, so users are more clumsy - these results are from studies that go back thirty years, so there is good, solid evidence of the harm this drug does.

Methamphetamine use has also been shown to quicken the progress of the HIV disease if you already have it, and drug users are at increased risk of catching Hepatitis if they share needles.