P t p meth is accompanied by very severe symptoms of scesophrenia. You begin to have severe paranoia, very florid hallucinations. The world becomes this concentrate and you really begin to retreat indoors. There's also an enormous focus on hoarding, just scavenging stuff from the street. I believe that this methem feteman is a major driving force. And are mental illness and homelessness problems, particularly tent encampment homelessness, that we're seeing.
While the nation’s attention has been focused on the opioid crisis, a new, more dangerous form of methamphetamine has swept across the country.
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