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Age: 40
Gender: Male

I've been clean from meth for 20 months (and all narcotics)! Even now my life is in shambles. I've been unemployed for 13 months, I have a clean record I just don't have any desire to do anything. I was just a weekend user at first, all I did was snort the stuff (that was 20 years ago) right around the year 2004 I was introduced to smoking it, well I knew about smoking it since around 1996 but I refrained because people told me how much more or how different the high was. So one day an acquaintance told me, the crash was not so bad smoking it compared to putting into your body by snorting. So one day I tried smoking it, I got tremendously high, but I could sleep 8 to 10 hours after the last hit! I said man I should have never snorted this poison. Well before you know it, I was hitting the pipe before work 2 to 3 hits, then it was 5 hits, then I was using at work! Well, what I'm trying to say is, I smoked about a half gram a day for 3 years. Now I'm clean but, I went from being a pretty good-looking guy to a fat lazy disinterested person. I got off meth before my teeth were any way noticeably affected, but I put on 50 pounds, I have no will or interest to do anything, live back with my mom, have no girlfriend, no money, NO LIFE! People tell me it takes a long, long time to get your interests back, well like I said I will be totally clean off meth for 2 years come February and it is still affecting me and my mother. IT ONLY TAKES ONE HIT, AND YOU WILL NEVER BE WHO YOU COULD HAVE BEEN!

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