|
Post by Yossarian on Apr 12, 2007 23:40:48 GMT -4
Personally I think that Faces of Meth might be the best anti-drug tool out there day. Don't rely on logic, statistics, biology ... cater to people's vanity!
|
|
spider
Guest
Sept 29, 2024 18:32:30 GMT -4
|
Post by spider on Apr 12, 2007 23:49:51 GMT -4
seriously. My ex neighbour started in on meth after her divorce at the ripe old age of 34. She looks easily 48 or 49 these days. Ugly drug.
|
|
dancedancexenu
Guest
Sept 29, 2024 18:32:30 GMT -4
|
Post by dancedancexenu on Apr 13, 2007 0:11:07 GMT -4
This is a totally inappropriate question but: Why do people in Hollywood take it if the people on the Faces of Meth site don't appear to have lost large amounts of weight? I can see weight loss in some, but most just look more ravaged, not necessarily thinner.
Of course, I'm assuming the people in Hollywood have more knowledge of drugs than the average person. Personally, pot turned me off the whole illicit substance thing, so I'm really useless when it comes to drug use. But I fail to see how such a destructive drug can be so powerful when people see its effects and it doesn't even have the effect that most stars (presumably) are using it for.
|
|
spider
Guest
Sept 29, 2024 18:32:30 GMT -4
|
Post by spider on Apr 13, 2007 1:30:40 GMT -4
Based on my experience living next door to meth addicts I'd say it definitely makes you far thinner, especially in the thighs, stomach and ass. A 35 year old women will look like a 12 year old boy from the chest down with less than a years sustained use. Her face will look like a baboons ass but a lot of meth users think that really, really bg sunglasses hide all that. Pete Doherty looks like a typical meth user to me, sores and all.
|
|
Deleted
Posts: 0
Sept 29, 2024 18:32:30 GMT -4
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2007 7:04:37 GMT -4
In my personal interactions with meth users, there are basically two conscious reasons for using (the unconscious reason being that it's nightmarishly fucking addictive): maintaining a superhigh level of energy and sex. Lots of energy and lots of sex. No one in Hollywood ever has a desire for either of those, right? Weight loss would be a by-product of not needing to eat in order to maintain energy, bloatiness from binge-eating when not tweaked.
Every single person I know/knew who became a heavy meth user lost everything before rehab -- job, relationship, family and, most devastatingly, health. Y'see, for gay male tweakers... well, let's just say that drug-induced erectile dysfunction (and lack of viagra) creates a semipermanent role as receiver. And sometimes driving a firetruck up there doesn't satisfy the need. Or dozens of firetrucks, with the firemen not wearing any protective gear. Because the fire that called them is really really hot.
If you know what I mean and I think you do.
|
|
marywebgirl
Guest
Sept 29, 2024 18:32:30 GMT -4
|
Post by marywebgirl on Apr 13, 2007 9:35:23 GMT -4
I thought it's been hinted at that meth is becoming more popular in Hollywood, they just have the money for the dermatologists and dentists to cover up the side effects.
|
|
|
Post by clementine74 on Apr 13, 2007 9:42:43 GMT -4
I would love to see the clip, if you don't mind. Now, more on topic, a friend of mine is a screenwriter in LA, and she told me the drug that the young starlets are taking (of course, in addition to cocaine) is...a horse steroid. It helps them maintain the deathly-skinny, yet sinewy, not skin-hanging-off look.
|
|
viridian
Guest
Sept 29, 2024 18:32:30 GMT -4
|
Post by viridian on Apr 13, 2007 10:10:26 GMT -4
Allure magazine had a recent article that mentioned the horse steroid as a weight-loss aid. I've also read that human-growth hormone is popular, too.
I'm a bit skeptical of stars using meth, mostly due to its effect on people's looks. Who wants to look like Fergie? Plus it has more of a downmarket reputation, since many associate it with the Midwest, rather than the supposed glamour of coke.
|
|
dancedancexenu
Guest
Sept 29, 2024 18:32:30 GMT -4
|
Post by dancedancexenu on Apr 13, 2007 10:24:08 GMT -4
Macleans also did a piece on it, where they basically said that Rachel Zoe was handing it out to all her clients.
It makes sense, I'm young, I go to the gym, and I probably drink a hell of a lot less than Mischa Barton (we're similarly built, heavy bottoms, twiggy upper body), but there's no way I could ever whittle myself down the way she has.
|
|
rascal
Sloane Ranger
Posts: 2,459
Mar 9, 2007 1:39:50 GMT -4
|
Post by rascal on Apr 13, 2007 11:25:30 GMT -4
I also heard it's the quality of meth that contributes to 'meth face'. The higher quality doesn't cause the same kind of problems that the street quality does...but that could be my complete ignorance of all things drug related.
|
|