ANTH106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Methadone, Louis Theroux, Methamphetamine
31 May 2018
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ANTH106 Week 7 Lecture Notes!
Neuropharmacology !
Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth !
-deteriorates your teeth !
-Califorinia - downtown Fresno!
-Grinding teeth, eyes !
-Derivative of speed !
City Police on frontline !
-domestic violence, child abuse, property crime, vehicle thefts !
-Gang activity !
-Meth for pain of memories - can make them laugh !
-Home of largest rehab facility - WestCare!
-Many addicts sent to facility instead of !
-Addicted women - sexual activity - many women have children !
-299 adults and 59 children - children can be born addicted !
-Takes the pain away and makes them feel good !
-cheap, easily manufactured !
-Pathways different - comes through relationships - develop connection with another person -
95% mental health disorders - 85% sexual, physical, emotional abuse - women abused by
those who say I love you !
-Chose meth over kids - felt that was the best thing at that time !
-Struggle with unemployment - help them work longer hours, others to escape their problems !
-Illegal - highly secretive !
-Injecting - meth, shards !
-$100 a day on meth - 4-5 smoke of shoot a day !
-Chose drug over children - not involve with children b/c of drug !
-Rural hides labs - small towns still have large numbers of meth addicts !
-Cooks - inhaling !
-Cooked - Fresno - Hells Angels - Meth capital of the world !
-Using since 11 - !
-Chris taking breaks - meth related - Andrew joined him !
-Smoking meth !
-After a bit - lively and energetic !
-Twitchy !
-Close to midnight - presence of children - around meth!
-Children exposed to the chaos of meth users and sellers !
-WestCare - the hot seat - facing of patients and family, friends !
-High everyday, at night in the evening !
-Criminal history extensive - 10-20,000 a week !
-Love being together - give anything to stop using the drug - don’t like being suicidal - wants to
be able to function !
-Active in addiction no choice - make choices getting clean - makes bad choices using drugs
not a bad person !
-Couldn’t breath air b/c she missed her kids - after 7 years think pain would lessen but it doesn’t
- hate not having her kids!
-Trigger can doing poorly, doing well - money !
-Needed energy to clean house - used for energy like coffee !
-Plague on this generation - majority is meth - primary drug of choice - families and kids and
getting addicted - not as many rehab - addicted and wants to continue that lifestyle !
-Incidents of death of baby, see themselves in the mirror, avoid prison - once feeling good about
themselves they can see they deserve the good things in life!
-67% enter complete treatment - how many say sober unknown !
-People from traumatic backgrounds - self-medicated themselves !
-Meth - cheap - highly addictive - rapid spread and destruction of families !
Document Summary
Louis theroux: the city addicted to crystal meth. Domestic violence, child abuse, property crime, vehicle thefts. Meth for pain of memories - can make them laugh. Home of largest rehab facility - westcare. Many addicts sent to facility instead of. Addicted women - sexual activity - many women have children. 299 adults and 59 children - children can be born addicted. Takes the pain away and makes them feel good. Pathways di erent - comes through relationships - develop connection with another person - 95% mental health disorders - 85% sexual, physical, emotional abuse - women abused by those who say i love you. Chose meth over kids - felt that was the best thing at that time. Struggle with unemployment - help them work longer hours, others to escape their problems. a day on meth - 4-5 smoke of shoot a day. Chose drug over children - not involve with children b/c of drug.
