Meth can make you feel like a robot. Ever seen those videos inside a car factory where a big blue metal arm swings up and puts the car's roof into place? Then the arm does that same action again, repeating every three seconds. If you do your dishes on meth, it's just like that.
Or you can do meth with a group of people and it's like the night a couple of guys decided to form a band. Sometimes that's literally what happens. I mean, there had to be some meth behind Daft Punk, right? You just shout ideas at each other at 100 MPH. And every idea seems like a good one.
You notice early on that meth messes with your sleep. You're basically mainlining espresso so that makes sense. You might get 'meth mouth.' That's hard to put into words. Check it out on Google unless you get grossed out easily.
In Aurora, Illinois, the year Adelina was killed, meth was a huge problem. Some kids in the public school were doing it, but that happens with every drug. Anxious parents dragged their kids to private school. People in the trades like carpenters and electricians were smoking meth. They had rough lives to begin with. What really scared folks was when accountants and lawyers were caught with meth. One guy sent his tax return to a well-known accountant with good Yelp reviews. He got back his tax refund in March and it seemed low. His company paid him almost the same as last year, actually a little more, but his refund was $1,000 less. Okay Reader, I know you're ahead of me but yeah, the accountant smoked enough meth to make a car payment.
Adelina's corpse tested positive for meth.
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