I've never touched meth. It and heroin were the two drugs that I and my "freak" friends were scared to death of.
I asked a meth head in the trailer park what exactly was so appealing about meth and how one got hooked on it.
He was very honest with me. He said, "Meth is a "b!tch." The first high is the best high. And ever afterwards, you are chasing that first high."
I did some reading. The sores are from the drug causing the user to hallucinate the sensation of bugs crawling beneath the skin. The user literally scratches holes in their own skin to get at the "bugs".
"Meth mouth" is caused by a combination of malnutrition and the extreme "dry mouth" caused by the drug.
I have a lesser version of meth mouth caused by extreme dry mouth from medications and connective tissue issues.
