Meth Invasion Part 2

Ron, which is not his real name, is a recovering meth addict who started using the drug at the age of 17.  He’s not proud of where it has taken him.  “I did everything that I could to get it.  I sold all my possessions that were important to me.  I stole from my mother.  I did just about every belittling thing I could do to myself in order to get this drug.  Meth became the most important thing to me in the world.“  Ron’s story shows the powerful grip that Methamphetamine can have on a person.  He says he felt like he could tackle the world and all its problems when he was taking the drug, but a picture he shows me from during that time shows how deceiving and devastating the drug can be.  He looks horrible.  Skinny as a rail.  During the course of his addiction Ron’s weight dropped from around 200 pounds to just 115 and the drug that he says once made him feel ten feet tall almost killed him. “I woke up one morning and I was experiencing a chest pain that I couldn’t identify.  They took me to the hospital and told me I was having an acute myocardial infarction, a small heart attack.“  Still he says even that was not enough to make him stop, “There was nothing that was ever enough to make me stop until I had lost enough of my life and experienced enough trauma.“ But Ron is living proof that people can recover.  Finally realizing the toll that Meth was taking on his health and his relationship with his family he got help. “I’m lucky to be where I am.  God gave me this to be sober.  Where I am at right now at six months clean.  I’m lucky to be where I’m at, anybody who gets clean off this drug is because it’s a devastatingly hard drug to get off of.  It’s a bad, bad drug.“