Horror stories
By Corey Taule . ctaule@postregister.com
Many of methamphetamine's horror stories involve tweezers.
Eleven addicts sitting in a circle at the Pocatello Women's Prison tell tales that make your skin crawl.
There's the guy, strung out on meth and paranoid about something that only he could see, who scraped the film off his eyeballs. There's the relative of a woman who picked layers and layers of skin off her nose.
A woman from Utah, a schoolteacher, supposedly picked out all the hair in her head, one by one. She thought something was crawling around up there.
Longtime meth addict Teresa Charboneau talks about "werewolfing," people whose bodies become so accustomed to this practice that the hair grows back in almost immediately.
Constant meth use causes the body to break out in sores, users say. Charboneau said she used to spend much time picking bloody scabs off her legs.
An Idaho Falls woman who asked not to be identified said she watches her daughter walk down the street, talking to herself and picking at the sores on her face.
"Tweezers and meth are a bad combination," Charboneau said.
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