Researcher/Scientist

So for example, how to surf an urge to use methamphetamine, how to urge surf, how to be able to sit with that discomfort and wait until it passes. How do you surf the urge?

They actually visualize the wave and the fact that the wave, you can actually watch the wave as it crests and it gets bigger and it feels like it's going to be overwhelming, but eventually it does actually crash and then recede.

No, I don't think that that's true. I think what's happened is that meth has earned itself a reputation whereby it's highly stigmatized. So I don't think it's that it's the scariest drug out there. I think that it's a highly misunderstood drug.

Some people, they just lose it. Stop! Research shows that taking methamphetamine, even just a few times, can impair your brain and movement for life.