Meth Zombies

The movie “Night of the Living Dead in 1968 confirmed the existence of Zombies, at least in our fantasies, and the beginning of the 21st century brought a plethora of Zombies to our screens. Zombie movies and games became popular as Americans opened their hearts to The Living Dead.

The Living Dead are usually individuals that have become infected by being bitten by another Zombie. After being bitten, normal looking and behaving humans morph into Zombies over a period of time. However, it is not easy to recognize zombies in the beginning stages. – they look pretty normal. However, zombies get creepier and more evil after time and eventually possess few of the decent human qualities. They come out at night but also are up all day. If a person is bitten, it is necessary for them to stay up and not go to sleep or they will wake up transformed into the living dead. At least that’s how it is in the movies. Most people probably leave the theatre happy that they don’t have to contend with such creatures in real life. Until the 21st century, that was fairly true, but not now.

Beware! The Living Dead are amongst us.

They are passing the venom to innocent victims, who in turn, transform into Zombies. You won’t see these Zombies on the big screen, but there might be one living next door to you. At first you might not recognize them. A brand new zombie is not always easy to recognize. You might just notice that their pupils look a little big and that they are acting jumpy. Time will tell. The zombies we are talking about here start to have rotten teeth, their body turns into skin and bones and like the zombies in the movies they operate day and night, all the while becoming less human and more devil.

These are the methamphetamine zombies and they are moving across America at alarming speed. The Meth watch campaign has been warning us about them, but still, every day a new person is infected and on their way to become a member of the living dead.

Other signs and symptoms are an increase in body temperature (so high it can cause death), itchy, dry skin, acne sores (often accentuated by the user picking at their face), panic attacks paranoia and Bad Body odor – fortunately accompanied by a decreased libido.

Another unsavory characteristic of Meth abuse is another zombie like trait – aggressive violent behavior. And like the movie, some have left a wake of crimes.

Here are some examples of crimes committed in recent years that have been reported by the press.

• A teen was driving under the influence of meth and ran over three siblings. Two died and the third was crippled, having to wear metal braces.
• A woman who was reportedly high on meth and driving a stolen car ran a stop sign as she tried to flee police. She hit another car and killed the other driver.
• A 16 year old passenger was killed by a driver allegedly high on methamphetamine.
• A truck driver was so high on methamphetamine that he believed he was protecting children in the truck from the “gargoyles” that were chasing him. In actual fact he was the pursuer and while speeding at 90 miles an hour he crashed his truck and killed two other drivers
• A man high on meth slammed into a car. He killed two people and injured two others.
• A man high on meth was driving 110 miles an hour on the wrong side of the road. He crashed into a truck and killed the passenger in his car.
• A man was driving around with materials that are used to make methamphetamines in his car. These materials are potentially explosive. He drove his car on the wrong side of the road and crashed his car. He then fled the scene, leaving behind a potential explosion. Fortunately, no one was hurt because a drug lab team eliminated the threat of explosion.

It is just not the crimes committed while a person is under the influence, but there are crimes committed while a person is trying to find the wherewithal to buy the methamphetamine. Not surprisingly, many meth users aren’t employed or at the very least don’t manage their money to well and wind up committing crimes to purchase their drug. They break into cars, businesses and homes taking valuable property and selling it. One city reported 364 incidents of auto theft and most of the people were reportedly on methamphetamine.

Addicts sell the contents of the cars and then some also keep small mobile meth labs in them. There are reports of thefts of tools and appliances from homes under construction and burglaries, all suspected to be the result of meth users looking for money to support their habit.

These are horrible crimes, committed by people who had turned into meth zombies. Most of these people have become something that even their families don’t recognize in appearance, action and spirit.

In the last couple of decades, local law enforcement has played cat and mouse games in trying to take down meth labs. One would be taken down, just to be replaced by another. The game changed somewhat when the Mexican Cartel became heavily involved and there was more people chasing along with the lab chasing. Despite all the efforts of good intentioned people, it seems like this problem is uncontrollable. But why?

History tells us that this has not always been the case. When amphetamines were first developed in Germany in the late 1800s, nobody was even interested enough to sell the stuff. It became somewhat abused during the time of the depression and dropped off the radar screen. Methamphetamines and amphetamines reappeared during World War II when soldiers on every front took the methamphetamines or amphetamines as prescribed by their governments and field doctors. By the end of war, most governments had decided that the stuff was no good for soldiers and the use dwindled.

In the 60s, amphetamines reappeared and started being abused to the point where the government again intervened and the abuse receded to the shadows to those few who took the extra efforts to find it.

Why society hasn’t been able to control methamphetamine use in this century is a mystery.

However, it is never too late to rewrite the script.

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