There is something off-setting about a tweaker itching away at their scabs, smiling with their missing teeth and frantically running around. They talk to me in a kind matter but all I can say to them ...
For those of you not hip to the lingo, or who missed the wave of '90s T-shirts and bumper stickers that made this phrase a borderline cliche, a "tweaker" is a slang term for a methamphetamine user.
In 2003, the federal government declared DC “does not have a serious problem” with meth amphetamine. I’m no epidemiologist or addiction expert. But I’m gonna say: DC still doesn’t have a serious meth ...
The War on Drugs is working. There are fewer and fewer drug addicts every year — just 4 million “chronic” cocaine and methamphetamine users in the entire country, according to a RAND ...
At the clinic where Connie Johnson works, they’re called methamphetamine addicts, and she is seeing a whole lot more of them these days. “They look like every ounce of life has been drained from them, ...