What are the long-term side effects?
• Diminishing levels of calcium throughout the body resulting in tooth decay. • Undesirable weight loss. • Impaired memory, potentially permanent damage to dopamine nerve cells resulting in slower motor and cognitive functioning. • Chronic depression, paranoia, temporary psychosis, suicidal thoughts. • Abscesses, soft tissue infections, hepatitis, STDs, and HIV infection. • Impotence (“crystal dick”). • Reduced decision-making capabilities and lower functioning levels that can result in problems keeping your job, financial security, and housing. • Arrest, imprisonment, and criminal record. • Relationship or interpersonal violence. • Isolation, including loss or degradation of relationships with partners, friends, and family; inability to feel pleasure; inability to have sex without crystal. Who is using crystal meth in Chicago? In Chicago, as with other urban areas, the population most impacted by crystal meth use appears to be gay men. Approximately 1 in 10 Chicago gay men reported us
