Heart and Soul

Methamphetamine

Long term Methamphetamine abuse can make a person mean and appear to have no heart.  Now this study shows that amphetamine users do have a heart, but it is very much at risk through amphetamine abuse.  It might become incapable of getting blood to the organs of the body through aortic dissection caused by methamphetamine abuse.

Spiritually and physically, methamphetamines are not good for the heart.  Drug treatment done in time can save a person – both heart and soul.

“Young adults who misuse amphetamines have a three-fold risk for tears in the aorta — the body’s largest artery — compared with nonusers, Reuters reported Aug. 17.

Researchers at the University of Texas examined the medical records of 31,000 Americans ages 18–44 hospitalized between 1995–2007 and found that patients who abused amphetamines had three times the risk for aortic dissection than patients who did not, even after controlling for other risk factors.

Amphetamines are known to increase heart rate and blood pressure. Aortic tears are potentially fatal.”