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According to StopMethAddiction.com:
- The estimated cost of making meth is $100 an ounce, with a street value of $800 an ounce.
- Methamphetamine's street value is approximately $3,000 per pound (about the size of a brick), while the price of cocaine is roughly $11,000 per pound.

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"When addicts use meth over and over again, the drug actually changes their brain chemistry, destroying the wiring in the brain's pleasure centers and making it increasingly impossible to experience any pleasure at all." - Quote from Dr. Volkow's study, Nora Volkow/American Journal of Psychiatry.
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"The human brain on meth does not look like fried eggs. It looks more like the night sky over Baghdad during the first weeks of the war." - Quote from David Sheff, author, Beautiful Boy, p. 134. referring to PET/MRI scans of meth addicts by Dr. Edythe London, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA.

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"When addicts use meth over and over again, the drug actually changes their brain chemistry, destroying the wiring in the brain's pleasure centers and making it increasingly impossible to experience any pleasure at all." - Quote from Dr. Volkow's study, Nora Volkow/American Journal of Psychiatry.

"The human brain on meth does not look like fried eggs. It looks more like the night sky over Baghdad during the first weeks of the war." - Quote from David Sheff, author, B

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An addictive stimulant that is closely related to amphetamine, but has longer lasting and more toxic effect on the central nervous system. It has a high potential for abuse and addition.
From National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Meth
Human-made,
smoking produces a high that lasts 8-24 hours.
50% is removed from the body in 12 hours,
limited medical use.
Cocaine
Plant derived,
smoking produces a high that lasts 23-30 minutes.
50% is removed from the body in 1 hour,
used as local anesthetic in some surgical procedures.

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- Increased domestic violence.
- Child abuse/neglect
- Traffic accidents.
- Theft/crime.
- Lab clean up costs approximately $10K each.

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Tweaking occurs at the end of the binge when nothing the abuser does will take away the feeling of emptiness and dysphoria, including taking more methamphetamine. Tweaking is very uncomfortable, and the abuser often takes a depressant to ease the bad feelings. The most popular depressant is alcohol, with heroin a close second.
Tweaking is the most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse cycle to law enforcement officers and other individuals near the abuser. If the abuser is using alcohol to ease the discomfort, the threat the law enforcement officers intensifies.

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It is extremely addictive, and changes the brain chemistry of the user.

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Depression.

Anxiety.

Fatigue.

Intense cravings.

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Sex causes dopamine levels to jump from 100 to 200 units.
Cocaine causes them to spike to 350 units.
Meth shoots the dopamine levels to about 1250 units.

"...something that's about 12 times as much of a release of dopamine as you get from food and sex and other pleasurable activities"
"This really doesn't occur from any normally rewarding activity. That's one of the reasons why people, when they take methamphetamine, report having this euphoric [feeling] that's unlike anything they've every experienced." - Dr. Richard Rawson

Then, when the drug wears off, users experience profound depression and feel the need to keep taking the drug to avoid the crash.

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Increased energy or activity.

Decreased appetite.

Breathing more or faster.

Rapid or irregular heartbeat.

Overheating.

Meth use can become even more detrimental over long-term or chronic use. As a person begins to use more meth, the brain will need higher and higher doses to achieve the same high. This pattern of increased doses often leads to dependency and addiction, which come with many negative and dangerous consequences.

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Meth

Speed.

Crank.

Tweek.

Uppers.

Chalk.

Christina.

Tina.

Go fast.

Cookies.

Cotton candy.

Dunk.

Gak.

Go-go juice.

No doze.

White cross.

Pookie.

Rocket fuel.

Scooby snax.

Wash.

Trash.

Garbage.

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It is a stimulant that can be used for medicinal purposes, but it is extremely addictive and is only prescribed by a doctor in low doses.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, meth changes the brain’s chemistry by blocking dopamine in the brain. When someone uses meth, the drug enters the brain and releases huge amounts of dopamine, causing an extreme high (euphoria).

Chronic meth use can cause functional and structural changes to the brain, especially to the areas that deal with memory and emotion. It can also cause molecular and chemical changes in the brain, which can be reversed after an extended period of abstinence from the drug.

As a popularly abused substance, meth has accumulated a number of names. Some nicknames like “speed” and “crank” have become a part of our colloquial parlance, while others remain much more obscure, perhaps intentionally.

Desired effects of user

At low dosage it may make the user feel better, however, at any higher of a dose it produces an extreme euphoric feeling.

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Psychosis (paranoia or hallucinations).

Problems in thinking ability.

Problems with motor control.

Memory loss.

Aggressive or violent behavior.

Extreme weight loss.

Dental problems.

Skin sores.

Erratic mood fluctuations.