What are the wounds you see on Meth Addicts faces?

I was looking at Faces of Meth, a site that shows before and after pictures of meth addicts. One thing I noticed it that they all seem to have small to moderate sized wounds on their faces. At first I thought it was acne, but they look like open sores. What is this condition? What does the drug do that causes this?

Those wounds you are seeing on their faces are actually places where they have picked at their skin and caused open wounds. It's not a condition, it's just from them scratching and picking at their own skin until it starts bleeding and turning red, causing those wounds to appear.

The drug itself is made from over the counter medications and causes your heart rate to speed up. This is called tweaking. They become paranoid, hyper, unsettled, sometimes combative, amongst many other things. The reactions people have to meth differs from person to person.

Some people don't sleep or eat for several days at a time and when the effects of the drug start to wear off, they become very unreasonable, tired,sore, etc. Some people even complain of pain in their mouths from where they have either chewed the inside of their cheeks and lips or from where they clinch their teeth together for so long that it feels like they have lock jaw.

I have seen too many people during and after they have been on meth and it isn't a pretty sight.

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I believe when someone is under the influence they can hallucinate, and they believe bugs or spiders can be crawling on their face (they may feel tingly skin or scratching) and they scratch hard, causing the skin to tear.

Alot of the sores and open wounds you see on meth addicts are "meth sores" and some are actually acne in combination with meth sores. One of the side effects of meth is that it makes you nervous and jittery, so you constantly scratch yourself as if you think there are bugs crawling on your skin. The toll of doing that day after day is that you end up scratching your skin off, leaving these red oozing sores all over your arms and face.

ok, the sores are from a few things... crystal meth acts to constrict blood vessels all over the body, obviously less blood for a prolonged period of time is bad, then the crystal meth itself destorys the kidneys that are tyong to excrete it, that makes the stuff build up in the other excratory ogran your body has, the skin, this causes the itching thing theyre always doing. so what we have is low blood flow + itching/irritation = sores.. and why they dont have any teeth..

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Crank bugs..... they think bugs are crawling on or under their skin. They try to scratch the "creepy crawling" feeling. I've even seen a guy take out a pocket knife and try to dig them out, only to be digging chunks of flesh out. GROSS!!!!!

Picked at zits. With all that crap in their bodies, they break out with pimples, and when you are high and going 90 to nothing, you pick at things to keep your hands busy. Gross huh!!

It's the meth poison leaving the body in the form of acne. Meth addicts pick at and pop the pimples, leaving icky scars on their face and other areas of their body as well.

well i was on meth for 10 years, and have been clean for 4 years now, the sores on the face is where you are so high that you pick at places on your face non stop. which eventually become huge sores, its like they think they have a pimple and try to squeeze it and squeeze. when there is really nothing there at all but the drug makes them think there is.

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