# "Tweaker" behavior without meth use?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweaker-behavior-without-meth-use/570535
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 7, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweaker-behavior-without-meth-use/570535 "2011-02-07T16:54:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweaker-behavior-without-meth-use/570535/21 "2011-02-11T13:16:05Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#):
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> If anything she was a “casual addict”, if such a term can be said to exist, since it was not significantly affecting her ability to function as a normal (if enabling, in regards to her boyfriend) adult.
The medical term is a “functional addict.” You’re right–casual use and addiction are not compatible.
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### Author:  [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweaker-behavior-without-meth-use/570535/22 "2011-02-11T17:53:16Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#):
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> There really isn’t enough information, and there isn’t a very polite way to inquire unless she mentions it first. Sorry.
Absolutely correct, which is why I am asking the internets. None of my mollyfrocking beeswax except that I do hand her my credit card a few times a month.
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### Author:  [@kimmy12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimmy12)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweaker-behavior-without-meth-use/570535/23 "2011-03-22T19:12:37Z")
People who are [crystal meth abuse](http://recoverynowtv.com/crystal-meth-abuse) mostly feel agitated and alive, but not coordinate.
The mildest side effects include paranoia, irritability and anxiety. When meth abuse is more severe, it can make the addicted individual violent due to extreme paranoia, suffer from permanent psychosis or be at risk of heart failures or strokes.
Even the smallest doses of meth can lead to addiction and serious dependency, which is why crystal meth abuse should never be taken lightly.
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### Author:  [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweaker-behavior-without-meth-use/570535/24 "2011-03-23T04:35:56Z")
> [@Skyscrapers\_Are\_Gravestones](#):
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> I’ve never understood how some of the employees stay there for so long considering the working conditions (droll, repetitive, hours of frenzied activity followed by hours of staring blankly at Central through the windows), but for everyone I’ve known or spoken to, it’s a means to an end. They pay something like $9.00/hour to start and easily accommodate school schedules.
“Droll”? I suppose even the most trenchant witticisms do get old half-way through a full-time shift, just as you get bored in traffic school even if it’s one of the ones that have comedians for teachers.
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