What are the Signs of Meth use?
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What are the Signs of Meth use?
The signs of meth use show both on a person’s body and in their mental health. Your ability to see the signs of meth use will vary on the relationship that you have with the meth, or methamphetamine, addict in your life.
Listed below are only some of the warning signs of Meth use.
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Physical and Emotional signs of Meth use:
- Significant appetite and weight loss
- Severe mood swings
- Unpredictable behavior
- Tremors or convulsions
- Depression, Anxiety, nervousness
- Delusions, paranoia, and hallucinations
- Feeling of bugs crawling on the skin
- Body sores from picking at skin
- Irregular sleep patterns
- Hyperthermia symptoms
- Elevated blood pressure, rapid heart rate, irregular heart rhythm
Socially signs of Meth use can include:
- Loss of interest in things that people used to love to do
- Isolation
- Socialization with a rougher crowd
- Disappearing for days at a time
- Sleeping all day, then gone all night
- Asking for money – your valuables have disappeared
If you are an employer, you might notice these signs of Meth use:
- Late to work
- Quality of the work has slipped
- More mistakes
- Act like they’re hiding things
- Making a lot of excuses
- Missing work completely
