Addiction Crossword

The initial response the abuser feels when using methamphetamine. The abuser's heartbeat races and metabolism, blood pressure and pulse soar. It can last for up to 30 minutes.
The abuser often feels aggressively smarter and becomes argumentative, often interrupting other people and finishing their sentences. The delusional effects can result in a user becoming intensely focused on an insignificant item, such as repeatedly cleaning the same window for several hours. It can last four to sixteen hours
Is the uncontrolled use of meth, the abuser’s urge to maintain the high by smoking or injecting more methamphetamine. It can last three to fifteen days. The abuser becomes hyperactive both mentally and physically. Each time the abuser smokes or injects more of the drug, he experiences another but smaller rush until, finally, there is no rush and no high.
A condition reached at the end of a binge when methamphetamine no longer provides a rush or a high. Unable to relieve the horrible feelings of emptiness and craving, an abuser loses his sense of identity. Intense itching is common and a user can become convinced that bugs are crawling under their skin. Unable to sleep for days at a time, the abuser is often in a completely psychotic state, seeing and hearing things that no one else can perceive. Hallucinations are so vivid that they seem real and, disconnected from reality, they can become hostile and dangerous to themselves and others. The potential for self-mutilation is high.
Happens when the body shuts down, unable to cope with the drug effects overwhelming it; this results in a long period of sleep for the person. Even the meanest, most violent abuser becomes almost lifeless. It can last one to three days.
After the crash, the abuser returns in a deteriorated state, starved, dehydrated and utterly exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally. This stage ordinarily lasts from two to fourteen days. This leads to enforced addiction, as the “solution” to these feelings is to take more meth.
First, they become depressed, loses energy and the ability to experience pleasure. Then the craving for more methamphetamine hits, and the abuser often becomes suicidal. Since it is extremely painful and difficult, most abusers revert; thus, 93% of those in traditional treatment return to abusing methamphetamine.
Abusers swallow or snort their drug. They want the extra stimulation narcotics/meth/stimulants provides stimulation, so they can stay awake long enough to finish a task or a job, or they want the appetite-suppressant effect to lose weight. They are one step away from becoming “binge” (meaning uncontrolled use of a substance) abusers.
Abusers smoke or inject narcotics/meth/stimulants with a needle. This allows them to receive a more intense dose of the drug and experience a stronger “rush” that is psychologically addictive. They are on the verge of moving into high-intensity abuse.
Abusers are the addicts, often called “speed freaks.” Their whole existence focuses on preventing the crash, that painful letdown after the drug high. In order to achieve the desired “rush” from the drug, they must take more and more of it. Each successive high is less than the one before, urging the meth addict into a dark and deadly spiral of addiction.