Methamphetamine
Is Methamphetamine considered an anti-depressant or a stimulant?
I'm not a scientist and this is not a scientific analysis of this drug. However, I have seen plenty of people on it including a neighbor whose life was nearly torn apart until they gave it up. I say it is both. People on Meth tend to stay up for days at a time, unable to sleep or rest for days and hours despite how tired they are. After that, its a swing in the opposite direction. They will sleep for days on end. They don't just sleep, they sleep so hard they can't be woken up by anything, even an emergency. This means you have two extreme swings in sleep, both are destructive and problematic for your life. Of course, this is outside the damage that this drug directly does to your nervous system.
A random factoid about meth use: It is considered a white man's drug. You will very rarely ever find people of different cultural backgrounds doing meth.
Meth is classified as a stimulant because of the effect it has. Yes, what goes up must come down, and so when they are coming off of meth, users can sleep for large amounts of time. Meth users have been known to avoid sleed for up to 15 days because of the hight he drug causes.
Woman's 'meth-fuelled' Walmart bender
A WOMAN high on meth drove a motorised cart through a US supermarket while eating a stolen BBQ chicken, police said. Ref. Source 2w[That is shocking]/woman-20-shoots-up-meth-rides-motorised-cart-through-walmart-while-eating-bbq-chicken/news-story/cc35e2eaf2668354d935f8bfcd712b14
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Methamphetamine (Hover)
Experimental small molecule shows potential in preventing meth relapse
The reason methamphetamine users find it so hard to quit -- 88 percent of them relapse, even after rehab -- is that meth takes advantage of the brain's natural learning process, say scientists. Ref. Source 7h.