Intervention for a friend who just started meth.. Help please

so i just found out that a friend of mine has started to do meth and i reallly need to help him before he f*cks his life over.

What do i need to say to him? i really want to help him i dont want him to ruin his life. His friend said he was never gonna do it again but i cant risk them completely screwing their lives over because of this. Theyre both 17 and me and some close friends are gonna talk to them tomorrow about it so What can i say to them that will help them and make them nevvver do it again?

please advice me on what to say, thanks

 

tell him that meth is bad and have pictures of meth mouth and statistics from some .gov site

 

Interventions are for people who are deep into a habit, not someone who just tried his first dose of a drug. If he truly ends up having a problem with it that's when you interfere with his life. Right now you can just be disappointed with him but he's gonna experiment regardless of your opinion it seems.

 

I live in an area thats nothing but meth trash or former meth trash. As mentioned meth mouth is always charming. That and when you look 40 when your 18 is super cool too.
Its a shit drug made from house hold chemicals so white trash can get high, Stay up for a few weeks and take your house apart "because they are watching me". They are thieves, Liars and would steal from their mom to get high.
Good luck trying to help, But if it persists your best bet is to get away from the low life trash asap and get better friends.

 

Sometimes there is nothing you can do. My brother shot meth for years and years. This Wednesday will be the 8 year anniversary of his body being found after it had laid in the woods for a month because of a Meth overdose.
I wish the best for your friends. Meth is very hard to kick.

 

that is imo the worst drug, except heroin, to get off. I have never done either, and never will.
Good luck. Just dont push bullshit on him. That wont help. Be honest about rational drug use policy, like our county should be doing

 

wake up at 6am smoke your meth and you will be able to go to bed late that night after smoking a fat blunt of weed. one of the main reasons meth messes people up is because they don't get proper sleep.

Another reason meth is bad is because meth is so fun and feels so good some people who don't like their life that much get addicted to it because they don't enjoy their life and when they find out how good meth makes them feel they decide they don't care how bad it is gonna destroy their body/brain because they just wanna get high.

Another reason meth is bad is because it helps motivate people to work. both people in college/jobs that hate their job or hate doing college work will use it because when you are on meth working is actually fun and easy.

another reason meth is bad is because it can play with your mind once you have done it to much. experienced smart drug users know the difference between reality and the trick that their mind plays on them but some drug users can't handle their mind and start thinking the crazy stuff their mind tells them is the truth and this is why some meth users end up in mental hospitals because they think crazy bizzare stuff and can't handle their brains.

I am pretty sure anybody who has done lots of stimulants knows what is like to have their brain mess with them. the key is understanding meditation. if you don't know how to meditate then it is gonna be hard.

now another reasons people get super super super messed up with meth is once their brain is at the point where their brain messes with them they can't handle it. and rather notice that something is wrong and quit drugs and try to heal their brain they decide to keep using meth to make them feel good to escape. at that point the person is just digging their grave.

sometimes once someone has done enough meth then even meth can't make them feel good. at that point the meth users start using heroin to feel good.


so basically just warn your friend what he is getting into. if he is just gonna do it once a month or something not a big deal.

 

You sound like the people who tried to "save" me from smoking weed in HS. I always remember hearing from a friend, that another friend referred to me and said: "What a waste." All I could think was, "What an asshole."

(I really don't know if that's the approach you are taking, but I just got that vibe from the post. Don't take this personally if I misjudge you based on what little I know.)

I know meth is totally different than weed, but trying it once is really not that big a deal. (I know people will strongly disagree with that...but I really tried crystal meth once in my life and that was it.)

The main thing is to not insult him with over concern and treating him like a child. If you are truly a friend, be a friend and treat him like an equal.

Tell him you are concerned, that you heard about how bad it is, and that you heard it's easy to become addicted. Tell him to be careful, and that if he ever needs any help he can come to you.

Knowing that others care about him and don't think he is an idiot is probably the best thing to keep him from getting addicted to a chemical that can be so evil if misused.

 

im assuming that he knew SOMETHING about meth before he tried it, with that being said, everybody knows that meth is highly addictive and probably the last drug to recreationally fool around with.
this is only my advice and I'm going off of the little information that you gave me, but i would suggest that you simply talk to him. be a friend. make sure everything is alright. he could be rebelling, he could be experimenting, but whatever the reason is, you need to find out.
Just be a friend to him and everything else will work out.

 

As a person who has experimented with many hard drugs, I would not be very forceful to this friend of yours. I can tell you one thing, and that is that drug users aren't fucking stupid. They use drugs for a reason and it is not simply because "they want to have fun" or whatever. It is usually something very private and deeply emotionally charged. So, if you tred into this topic be prepared to have to learn a lot about this friend that you probably didn't know.

Also note that it IS possible to "chip" at hard drugs without being addicted. I don't know about your friend, but I know people who have done this. However, I agree that it is probably best that he stops using meth. But don't make it so black and white. Don't say "Now you can NEVER use a drug again" or something. Perhaps your friend can enjoy snorting an Adderall once in awhile or something to get that feeling in a safer way. You know?

I just know that I am repulsed by most interventions I have seen on television and if I were the addict I would fucking punch the people in the fucking face (the non-family members). People who take hard drugs have fucking HARD reasons for doing it. The reasons aren't easily fixed. They sometimes take DECADES to fix. Sometimes, they never are fixed. I am talking SEVERE personality disorders or mental illnesses here. So the attitude of many interventionists, that quitting drugs is an easy fucking thing like pressing a button is SICKENING.

Sorry to get mad. I am not mad at the OP who seems to be a cool person. I am pissed at our culture in general!!

 

From my experience, a drug user needs to "awaken" on his/her own to see what life is and is worth. No amount of hate or information can change a mind set for destruction. My best advice would be to love that friend till the end and always tell them you care and love for them and be there for them. BUT DO NOT enable them or give them money or allow them to take advantage of you.. Good luck my fellow friend.

 

Make him spend a day (or better yet a week) in an ICU waiting room, with nothing to do but eavesdrop on other people's tragedies.

 

Show him a picture of what goes in that shit. Anyone that wants to take drano and other corrosive chemicals into their body is on a one way trip to a toothless,jaw-grinding,arm-flapping,neck adjusting,stealing,disgusting existance. I see 'em here ALL the time,floppin' around,talkin' to themselves and lookin' to steal shit. I guess some people want that. Maybe that's what he wants. Ask him.