Dallas Bragg explains why crystal meth overdoses rarely make headlines: the drug kills slowly, destroying health and personality over time rather than causing sudden death. Fatal overdoses usually happen only when meth is mixed with fentanyl. Bragg describes meth as a thief that steals identity while letting users stay functional enough not to notice.
Here's why I think we don't hear about overdoses from crystal meth that often. Unless it's mixed with fentanyl, of course. Because crystal meth doesn't want you to die physically. It wants to slowly tear your life apart so that you would wish you were dead. It wants to steal the light from your eyes. It wants to dissolve your personality neuron by neuron. It wants to turn you against your friends. In your family. It wants to adhere you to other drug users so that together you can march to your death. It wants to keep you dehydrated so that your body is slowly breaking down, but in a way where you can function. It wants to keep you in this fantasy world where you think you're right on the verge of something working out, but slowly you're actually losing everything. I know this because I lived it. Crystal meth is like a thief in the night. It is stealing everything you know to be true about yourself right underneath you.
