Iowa Meth Mom

Why is this video "no longer available?" Did pstuart delete it, did Current delete it? If the video is no longer available, why is this thread still here? Can it still be found "On TV?"

What's going on Current?

Great piece and I really hope this lady has clean up and stayed that way. However, nothing annoys me more than when people blame God for their issues. 'Sometime I feel as if God just put me here to suffer.' Obviously her suffering was self induced thus God had nothing to do with it.

Even though this tape was really direct and genuine, I was cringing half the time I watched this... I saw it twice on TV, and the second time I just turned away...

I wish I could say poor woman, but hey... if you decided to depend on a drug, an illegal substance nonetheless, and would place that drug in a pedestal, above your friends, your family, and even above your own health and life, then you're going to have to pay for your actions...

I'm glad she stopped doing meth... 30 years too late, unfortunately.

Thank you for inspiring me to not do drugs! Work well done, Farnsworth!

Meth use is growing rapidly amongst teenagers-at least in Riverside, CA. My teenage brother was a meth-addict. Now dealers are making "it" flavored. They're using cotton candy flavor and watermelon flavor to attract to an even younger crowd. Highschoolers have a system to buying and selling this drug on their campus. They carve out holes in books and leave books with drugs and money for the buyer or dealer to pick up in a designated area/s. My brother was on Ritalin and he would trade his perscription with the dealer for Meth. It's such a shame. I really hope that this woman can survive the habit and fight the tourment of her past.

This pod is so powerful and visceral that it almost made me sick. Really good job pstuart.

If the government wants an "anti-drug/meth campaign", this is the type of imagery they need to use. Real people struggling with the addiction.

She is only 30 in this video? I figured at least 50.

Meth is huge in Oregon, and here in Portland they're still coming up with ways to combat the problem. We've got three houses in my neighborhood alone that are going to be demolished because they were drug houses. I hope that something comes our way soon to keep people away from this stuff, because it doesn't just kill you, it tortures you slowly, removes your humanity, and then kills you. Its horrible.

seeing this Pod made me nervous primarily because I've done meth before and it was not fun.
I only did once with a college roommate. I, stayed up for a couple of days over a weekend.
My roommate, on the otherhand, stayed up as well, but he had a soccer tourny the morning after we did the meth.
He was super paranoid about everything, thought everybody knew he was high, his eyes were wired and constantly looked out our dorm peephole, watched tv with the sound off.
Even more, at his first match, he faked an injury to get himself out of playing so high on meth.
He continued to use meth recreationally, and couldn't continue with his soccer club. Later he transferred universities.

To say that this is a very real problem is an understatement, and it is ignorant to say that this is just an "Iowa" problem. Meth is a problem EVERYWHERE affecting the makeup of the USA in ways that are unthinkable (Please ... if you have not seen the other Meth pods here ... you owe yourself to watch them). Future generations will be long-paying the costs of the social wreckage that so many addicts have left behind. This woman was lucky if she got clean. Many livelihoods (families and lives entirely) have been destroyed by this true societal menace.

That was heavy the first time I saw it. I never want to do meth.

Jeez. Can't believe it. That's some serious shit.

great story but the holiday piano soundtrack is seriously wrong for this topic and excellent piece

It really hits hard when you see what power these drugs have over people and the things that they do almost against their own will to score and get that high

The bottomless pit of chasing a high that she will never reach again. She will never get over it usumacinta, it will always consume her thoughts every single day either avoiding meth or regretting all the mistakes made.

That was intense. How does this happen?

it's true ice is a really big problem in Hawaii. Doesn't anyone watch Dog the bounty hunter???

Although you mention with subtitles that because of this video she is no longer doing this? or "clean" HOW CAN WE KNOW FOR SURE???? Some subtitles do not mean that this video can not also have the opposite effect on people. I am a bid skeptical on this type of subject for camera. Why? because I can never be sure if she is 100% able to know what being in camera really means. It is a big commitment to accept to be on camera! if you are on drugs. I find this a bid of an easy subject for camera.

This is disturbing... I am so glad she is clean now.