Did anyone see the newest episode of "Explorer"?

[izzy31]

It's a show on The National Geographic channel, it's a series that has mainly scientific topics about an event, a phenomenon, and just tell all about whatever it is and what to expect in the future.

An episode about methamphetamine aired but focused mainly on addiction, statistics, and the actual epidemic. That didn't completely ruin it, but there were some things that as always, were inaccurately stated.

Specific example:They claim the drug itself causes delusions and hallucinations, when the drug doesn't directly produce symptoms like that, but results from sleep deprivation usually even though that occurs from use of the drug.


Also, meth isn't THAT easy to make. It can be done with things that aren't hard to get, but this just means it's easier to make than other drugs. The key ingredients are easy to obtain but the actual process of converting psuedoephedrine/ephedrine to meth requires intelligence and knowledge about chemistry to make any decent quality stuff.

I don't mean to say I'm supportive of meth in every way and think everything negative about it is a lie, but no one ever looks at just the drug. It's always about the addiction a drug causes, never to have a simple informal purpose that doesn't go into discussing how it affects society.



Did anyone else see it?