Yaaba

I have heard the drug Yaaba mentioned a few times here, and I wondered what it is and if it is any-good, and what are it's effects? Is it a plant that you chew or a purified chemical compound? :albino:

You are kidding, right?

It is methamphetamines -- purely chemical -- very dangerous and apparently quite addictive. Yaaba or crystal meth is a stimulant, so effects range from lack of focus and insomnia to heart palpitations and erectile disfunction. When you hear about Thai police conducting random urine tests in places like Silom Soi 2, they are testing for Yaaba - a positive test gets you into the Bangkok Hilton for free.

Not kidding. That doesn't sound very stimulating, is it a kind of slightly toxic speed? Is it the thing truck drivers are so fond of?

Dangerous stuff. Seen as one reason HIV is on the rise in the gay community.

www.freevibe.com/Drug_Facts/meth.asp?id=google (http://www.freevibe.com/Drug_Facts/meth.asp?id=google)

www.urban75.com/Drugs/meth.html (http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/meth.html)

[AMARETTO-old]

A FEW ARTICLES :
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php ... 29&t=63241 (http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=29&t=63241)

http://www.pattayagay.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=225

A 1999 survey in Songkhla province (in the South),
for instance, found that some two thirds of sexually
active secondary school students frequently used
alcohol (compared to less than one third of the
students who were not sexually active). A survey
in 2001 in Phayao province (in the North) revealed
the same pattern, along with high levels of yabaa
(a popular methamphetamine-based drug) use.
More than one quarter of sexually active students
were using the drug. Yabaa use does not in itself
carry risk of HIV infection, but facilitates more sexual
risk-taking.

Box 7.7 Risky highs
Surprisingly high levels of HIV infection have been found among people who use drugs but do not inject them.
Research at the Thanyarak Institute on Drug Abuse has shown that HIV prevalence among users of amphetaminetype
stimulants (such as yabaa) rose from 1.5 percent in 1995 to as high as 7.6 percent in 1998 before dropping
again. Among marijuana users receiving treatment at the Institute, prevalence hovered around 10 percent,
and among alcohol users it ranged from 5 percent to 7 percent over the period 1996-2001 (see Table 7.2). Unsafe
sexual behaviour when under the influence of drugs or alcohol was the most probable cause of infection.

Source: Thanyarak Institute on Drug Abuse,Ministry of Public Health.

Box 7.14 Drug use on the rise
Drug use has been on the increase in Thailand, more than doubling throughout the country in the latter half
of the 1990s, with the most favoured drugs being amphetamine-type substances, marijuana and inhalants.
Yabaa dominated the scene from the mid-1990s as the new drug of choice. Around the same time,
following the surrender of the Burmese drug lord Khun Sa in 1996, the supply of heroin became choked, pushing
up prices.
Heroin remains available in the hills of northern Thailand and in the South,where it is largely injected. Amphetamines,
on the other hand, are very easy to obtain, relatively cheap and available throughout the country. Yabaa is
generally taken orally or vapour inhaled. Reports of yabaa injecting are rare. The drug is used for a variety
of purposes. While some people тАУ especially those working long hours тАУ value the heightened alertness and
stamina the drug affords them, others use it for recreation, including in sexual contexts. Thus, there are concerns
that high yabaa тАЬuseтАЭ could have a bearing on HIV transmission, because of increased sexual risk-taking.
The actual number of users who inject drugs is unknown. Data does point to a strong direct relationship between
the chronic use of heroin and injecting behaviour. Estimates range from 100,000 to as many as 250,000 addicts.
Studies show most of them are male (around 90 percent) and most aged between 20-24 years.45 Recent studies
also show ongoing demands on treatment services by relapsing heroin users.

full report : http://www.undp.or.th/docs/HIV_AIDS_FullReport_ENG.pdf

[Aunty]

Not kidding. That doesn't sound very stimulating, is it a kind of slightly toxic speed? Is it the thing truck drivers are so fond of?

Cedric honey, you should check this site out.

http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/sheriff/faces_of_meth.htm

Ok I am being glib but that site is pure sensationalism. And rather compulsive viewing. I think I will stick to my gram of opium once a fortnight. They all look like alcoholics. Whats with the red lesions/abrasions all over the face? What causes that? The woman in example 2) is clearly at least ten yrs or more older than the original and would look the same had she stuck to booze and sun tanning. She also seems to have been through a lot of stress. I would hazard a guess that she has also been mentally and/or physically abused in some way or form.

a few years ago and I can report that it is just another form of speed..and there-in lies the problem as it carries all the joys and negatives that go with all speed drugs.

A great high for a few hours and then the eventual slump and with continued use..probably a sort of depression that means you want the high again and again. :cheers: :drunken: :cyclops: :bounce: :geek: :cherry:

In that sense it's not a physical addiction more a mental one simialr to cocaine and just as damaging to the wallet.

I see, pass thank-you very much.
I have become very cautious about using speed, ever since I had a chronic haemorrhage in one nostril, that took a week to cease spurting blood. Unpleasant and uninformed. We are all tempted to dabble, but I now like knowing what I am letting my self in for.

E's though not essential are quite relaxing, and the odd spliff wildly stimulating. For a very relaxed personality like me, I found dope works like speed , especially Sensamillia hash. But my no one drug of choice has to be a tiny pipe of opium. The side affects of reading classics as a boy.

I discovered that old Chinese men rather enjoy this as well, sitting in the back row of a movie house, watching pussy fuck movies. Of course it was pure accident that I discovered my toothless gang of four ,and who was I not to honour the filial duty that brought social harmony to the masses. Discipline is the key to success here and the advantage of having no interest in the genre keeps me from making an utter piggy of myself. That and the the rather smelly Viagra induced sloshing sound, coming from the front row, keeps me away at least three weeks out of four.

I don't know, Cedric...I think you should give it a try and let us all know. You never know, you might really like it.

[Monty-old]

CEDRIC
I Know of 2 young men 1 young women that are no longer with us , because of YABBA.
and about half the Thai's in Monkey house, and a few farlang in jail, are there because of YABBA & drugs.
And you are welcome to join them.

anyone Cedric , nor any drug but I don't believe in perpetuating the fallacies that surround illicit drug use.

However in Thailand one would be most foolish to get involved in any illegal drug use..as you know Thaksin's campaign to rid the country of yabba within 3 months, a few years ago when a few thousand so-called dealers were shot when "resisting " arrest failed for some inesxplicable reason.

I am sure local authorities would like nothing more than to arrest farang yabba dabblers...and there are spies everywhere who receive a bounty for spotting drug users.

Stick to the legal and just as lethal drug alcohol.