Booty Bump Meth Effects, Health Risks & Meth Addiction Treatment Options
How Do You Booty Bump Meth?
Methamphetamine — often called “crystal meth” — is a powerful drug that stimulates the central nervous system and lasts for many hours. It generally comes in white powder or solid crystal-like chunks, but its color may vary. It can be snorted, swallowed, smoked, injected into a vein, or inserted into the rectum. Some people call injection “slamming.”
How to booty bump meth? The slang terms “booty bumping meth” and “keistering” are used to describe inserting methamphetamine into the rectum. Compared with other illegal drugs, it is rather inexpensive and provides a strong high that lasts 6 to 12 hours. It is fairly simple to manufacture, but the process is dangerous because it involves heating chemicals that can explode. [1]
How Much Meth Do You Put In A Booty Bump?
People booty bumps so that they can avoid injecting because injecting drugs can cause skin/vein damage and can be painful. If you booty bump meth, you won’t end up with “tracks” on your arms and might be less likely to end up with scabs, sores, and other abscesses on your skin. People also may booty bump meth so that they can avoid snorting drugs, which can damage your nose, or avoid smoking, which can damage your lungs.
Also, you’ll likely experience stronger effects of the drug if you booty bump (than if, for example, you swallow your drugs). The rectum happens to be very efficient at absorbing a high percentage of a drug into your bloodstream—which is why some medications are administered through the rectum.
Booty bumping has a very high “bioavailability” rate compared to other routes of administration. That means that a higher percentage of the drug gets into your system with booty bump meth than for example if you smoke your drugs. [2]
Is It Safer Than Other Ways Of Consuming Drugs?
What is drug misuse? Drug use refers to any scope of use of illegal drugs: heroin use, cocaine use, tobacco use. Drug misuse is used to distinguish improper or unhealthy use from the use of medication as prescribed or alcohol in moderation. These include the repeated use of drugs to produce pleasure, alleviate stress, and/or alter or avoid reality. It also includes using prescription drugs in ways other than prescribed or using someone else’s prescription.
Addiction refers to substance use disorders at the severe end of the spectrum and is characterized by a person’s inability to control the impulse to use drugs even when there are negative consequences. These behavioral changes are also accompanied by changes in brain function, especially in the brain’s natural inhibition and reward centers. The National Institute on Drug Abuse uses the term addiction corresponds roughly to the DSM definition of substance use disorder. The DSM does not use the term addiction.
DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria For Substance Use Disorders
Substance use disorders are defined as a pattern of use that results in marked distress and/or impairment, with two or more of the following symptoms over the course of a 12-month period:
- Using the substance in larger amounts or over a longer period of time than intended
- Unsuccessful attempts or persistent desire to reduce the use
- Too much time spent on obtaining, using, and/or recovering from the effects of the substance
- A strong craving for the substance
- Significant interference with roles at work, school, or home
- Continued use despite recurrent social or interpersonal consequences
- Reducing or giving up important social, occupational, or recreational activities because of the substance use
- Substance use in situations in which it may be physically hazardous
- Substance use despite recurrent or persistent physical or psychological consequences
- Tolerance of the substance
- Withdrawal from the substance [3]
What Does Booty Bumping Meth Feel Like?
Some of the desired effects of booty bump meth include:
- A great boost in energy and mental focus that allows users to work or play for long periods without getting tired
- A stronger sense of self-confidence and self-worth
- Lower sexual inhibitions and increased sex drive
However, men who use booty bump meth may be less able to get and keep an erection without using erectile dysfunction drugs, such as Viagra® (sildenafil), Levitra® (vardenafil), and Cialis® (tadalafil).
What Are The Risks?
Short-term adverse effects from booty bump meth include:
- An increase in blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature, sometimes to dangerous levels, can lead to a heart attack or stroke
- A “crash” period often occurs after several straight days of using methamphetamine. When they crash, users have little energy and feel depressed and isolated
Longer-range adverse effects from booty bump meth include:
- Intense craving for booty bump meth when not taking it. Users are likely to develop a tolerance for the drug (more and more is needed to get high) and become dependent on it or addicted to it. However, some people can use methamphetamine, even for long periods, and not become addicted.
- Deterioration of teeth and gums is common and often severe
- Reduced appetite, weight loss, and poor eating habits can be harmful, especially to people with
HIV or AIDS - Potentially serious damage to nerve cells in the brain. The person may need to stop using the drug entirely for the brain to heal — but the damage may be permanent and cannot be reversed
- Impaired memory, reasoning, and ability to process information
- Psychological problems: depression, psychosis, aggressive behavior, hallucinations, and paranoia
- Damage to the cardiovascular system, lungs, liver, muscles, and nerve cells; skin lesions
Tearing
Inserting crystal meth into the rectum or through the process of booty bump meth can damage this delicate tissue, making it more likely to tear and possibly transmit HIV by exchanging blood.
Infection
Although methamphetamine can be swallowed, smoked, or snorted, injection and rectal use carry
specific risks for disease transmission.
Injecting the drug into the bloodstream increases the risk of transmitting blood-borne infections – HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C — if syringes and other drug injection equipment (“works”) are shared. Users can greatly lower the risk of transmission by not sharing drug injection equipment.
Overdose Or Overamping
According to Healthline, a booty bump meth can overwhelm your body in some cases, regardless of the kind of drug you’re using. Opioids and other central nervous system depressants can slow your breathing to the point of death. This is what happens when someone experiences an opioid overdose. Your overdose risk increases if you mix multiple downers. Using for the first time or after a break can also contribute since your tolerance is nonexistent or diminished.
An “overdose” of stimulants, such as meth, is called overamping. Unlike an opioid overdose, it’s not defined by drug quantity or potency. You might have a higher chance of overamping if you haven’t been sleeping, eating, or hydrating. Mixing multiple drugs or using them in an uncomfortable environment can also make you more vulnerable. Boofing your usual sniffing or smoking dose may hit harder and faster, potentially raising your risk of overdosing or overamping. [4]
Meth Addiction
Methamphetamine is a powerful and highly addictive stimulant that may affect your central nervous system. Although medications have proven effective in treating some substance use disorders, there are currently no medications that counteract the specific effects of methamphetamine. Also, there is no medication yet to prolong the abstinence from meth or to reduce the misuse of the drug. Evidently, the most effective meth addiction treatment at this point are behavioral therapies, such as cognitive-behavioral and contingency management interventions. [5]
Meth Addiction Treatment Centers
Clearing meth from the body and overcoming withdrawal symptoms is the goal of meth detox, which is the first step of treatment for meth addiction. We Level Up has a comprehensive team prescribing medications that can alleviate your withdrawal pains while monitoring your health 24 hours during the detox. We prioritize your safety and comfort because this is a fragile and challenging time for you.
Once detox is complete, a new doorway in treatment opens up, which is referred to as a residential level of care. We Level Up residential care program slowly and effectively introduces the individual into an atmosphere of therapeutic growth, marked by master’s level therapists, clinicians, group counselors, psychiatrists, and a community of like-minded individuals with the same aim: to attain sobriety and live a great life.
Some of the many modalities applied and practiced within our residential treatment facility are:
We Level Up treatment tailors the program to the individual and the individual to the program of recovery. The process begins by assessing our client’s history of mental health, drugs, and alcohol-related past. The needs of each patient are specific and personalized because we aim to provide comprehensive support for mental health, addiction, and dual diagnosis treatment. Our supportive environment is designed accordingly to give patients 24-hour care for sobriety. Most importantly, we hope to have our clients live comfortably within the facility during this crucial and fragile time.
How We Can Help? Searched for a “meth booty bump addiction treatment program” or are you seeking a national inpatient rehab destination?
We Level Up prioritizes removing temptations for relapse and applying an air of recovery into every component of the treatment timeline, including meth addiction treatment.
We Level Up finds that when clients are living in a supportive community, especially during their early recovery process, they can truly focus on what matters most: their recovery.
Above all, if you or a loved one is struggling with booty bump meth, reach out to us because we may be able to help you explore treatment options.
Sources:
[1] Methamphetamine and HIV: Basic Facts for Service Providers – New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
[2] How to Booty Bump Better – https://www.sfaf.org/collections/beta/how-to-booty-bump-better/
[3] Adapted from American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5®). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing; 2013.
[4] What’s the Deal with Booty Bumping (aka Boofing)? – https://www.healthline.com/health/substance-use/booty-bump
[5] Methamphetamine – National Institute on Drug Abuse