Question by michaeldrennie: What are some ways to help someone using Meth and suffering from extreme paranoia as a result of using?
My room mate and good friend has recently been hanging out with the wrong people, he had a drug habit a couple years ago, but went to rehab and has been doing great. Recently he has been hanging with the wrong people and I know for a fact he has been using Meth, I don’t know how often he is doing it, but he definetley is. He has been using no longer than 2 months. Now he is becoming extremely paranoid, he is adiment that this ex-girlfriend of his is having people follow him everywhere and that we are going to be robbed. He thinks alot of our neighbors are watching him and are a part of the people following him. Another close friend of ours who I know doesn’t have any intention to harm him, is being accused of following him and a part of the people following him. I really don’t think there is anyone following him. I want to know what I can do to get him help while it is still early. How can I show him that he is just paranoid and no one is after him? Please help, this is very serious.
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Answer by Dr.Kensi
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Call the ambulance. They can safely get him to the detox. He definitely needs intervention.
Meth is some really bad stuff. The only thing he can do to drop the paranoia is to quit the drug. There in lies the problem, Meth is instantly addictive, and probably one of the most destructive drugs known to date. I would start by trying to help him clean up, talk to him at first see if he wants help. If not, you need to get him out of your life, because you will start to loose valuable things around your house, and it will go down hill from there. I have know several people who have started the drug, and only one ever quit it (and it destroyed his life and everyone he knew before he decided he needed to quit). As for the rest of them I had to write them off because they had no intentions of changing their life and they were quite OK with not caring about anything or anyone but their next high.
well my boyfriebd did it and to tell u this is a very serious issue. before he does any sort of harm to anyone or himself he nds to tlk to someone.
Sleep will be a big cure. The meth monster is derived not from the drugs but the lack of sleep and the psychosis this introduces. Often folks doing Meth need a heavy seditive to actually finally go to sleep. Especially after a long run. If he’s paranoid but sleeping he’s prob doing Coke not Meth. Coke induces paranoia rather rapidly and the drug itself does it. I call it the window dance. You get a room full of people doing coke and inevitably somebody will look out a window. Once somebody does everybody else will have too and pretty soon cops are coming out from behind mailboxes, every car is an undercover cop. All of which is very contagious. Each persons rising paranoia adding to the core paranoia. This will last after even the drugs wear off. Takes a few days of being down before a heavy coke user loses most of the paranoia.
In both cases weed will help calm the guy though weed does tend to contribute a little to paranoia.
After he’s had a good rest tell him what he’s been doing. I think that will solve the drug probem hopefully.
—- Sweetleaf you trying to get somebody killed? Paranoid + cops and amubulence = violence.
Meth is not instantly addictive. Most people I know who got hooked on it did it for several months before becoming hooked. Occasionally a gal who has already a strong affinity for speed will get pulled in much quicker than that. Physically it is not very addicting. It is psyhologically addicting. Very much so after you use it long enough. It is crak that is instantly addicting and I think you are confusing the two. They are very different animals.
I really wish I could warn you of the shape of things to come.
I really wish I could. If you are using the computer instead of the telephone to call the paramedics…then there truly is nothing I can say.
I really wish I could warn you…
And he is already exhibiting drug-induced psychosis?
Good god!
Do I tell him that the friend he thinks he knows does not exist…he is looking at an addict…and the voice he hears is the voice of addiction…
it can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with…and it absolutely will not stop trying to kill him until he is dead.
This is your roommate, and he is on meth, and you are not worried about your own safety? Your own welfare?
If this is what you mean by ‘it is still early’ and you are not taking steps to safeguard yourself just how well equipped are you to rescue him?
You throw him a life preserver from the comfort of your ship…the moral high ground …to keep him from drowning…but the writing on that ship says Titanic…as things stand now my friend you…are the one who goes down.
I am a Meth addict.And have Paranoid Schizophrenia.I have been through rehab twice.Meth is a bitch to unhook from.It’s a Monster and once it gets its claws into you it sucks the life out of you.I’M SORRY THAT YOUR FRIEND IS NOT OKAY….alls you can do is reassure him that no one is after him.I THINK HE’S GOT PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA and needs to get on some medication to calm those feelings. I take Risperdol,Lexapro and Benztropine and they sometimes help.If he’s been in rehab,he has probably heard things pertaining to a Higher Power.Well,trusting in him,his God, is the supreme answer.Show him lots of LOVE.