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Can using certain drugs send you to a Mental Institution?

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I know of someone who was probably laced but maybe didn't know it. Maybe they did. This is their second time in the mental hospital because they were accusing people of different things that didn't make sense.
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"Ice" (methamphetamine) addiction leads to permanent brain damage.
Many such young people are now tragically locked in aged-care dementia words or psychiatric units - to protect both themselves and others in society from their impulsivity and violence.
BeautifulLibra · 46-50, F
@hartfire Wow. I didn't know that.. Jesus
I wonder why someone would want to try a drug that they see can ruin their lives or seeing someone else on it and what it does to them.
@BeautifulLibra I asked an ice addict (young male hitchhiker). He told me he was under a home custody sentence on probation to live with his father. I asked why. He said he'd committed a crime while on ice.
I asked him why he took it.
He said the very first time was the best experience of his life and he was instantly hooked.
I asked him what it felt like and he could only say "good."
He wasn't very articulate.
I hope one day to meet one who has a larger vocabulary.
But it's possible that the brain damage might interfere with language production. Definitely it interferes with insight and empathy.

One time, I came home and discovered a strange Honda Civic stuck on a precarious slope between my driveway and the fence.
At the house, my Landcruiser was missing.
At 5ish a young man rang: "Sorry I crashed Mum's car in the long grass off your driveway. I borrowed your car to get home. I'll wash it at return it at 7.
By 7, the car wasn't returned so I rang the police and gave them the caller's mobile number.
The next day, the police rang and said they had my car in their lockup yard and had dusted it for prints. They'd found the young man's prints on it. He was 28, had a girlfriend and 3-year-old son by her, used to be a BMW mechanic, had been up before judges for car theft many times - and had just broken his most recent parole. This incident would put him in prison.
Later his mother and her best friend came to visit me, explain and apologise.
Both women were sweet, honest, and seemed at their wit's end trying to cope with the son's addiction. They said he always slept after coming off the drug, and always regretted his actions.

I came to understand that while on the drug,
they lose any sense of what is right or wrong,
what harms and what might be dangerous.