Methamphetamine-Induced Psychosis and Officer Involved Shootings

When Two Crises Collide: The Influence of Methamphetamine-Induced Psychosis on Police Shootings

You can't even call this methamphetamine anymore. The methamphetamine of today is made differently than it was just a few short years ago. With this change in manufacturing, there was a huge change in the way users reacted to this new meth and now methamphetamine is a major factor in police shootings. Simply put, methamphetamine is causing psychosis that is leading to paranoid behavior that leads to deadly interactions with law enforcement.

Police shootings and methamphetamine go hand in hand. Methamphetamine addicts are often paranoid, suffering from meth psychosis, and can become extremely violent. This makes them a danger to both themselves and to the police officers who are trying to help them. Many times, when police officers are called to a scene where someone is high on methamphetamine, they are met with violence. This can lead to a shooting, as was the case in a western state earlier this year. In that incident, a man high on methamphetamine fired at police officers, who then shot and killed him.

So, what is the exact correlation between methamphetamine and police shootings? What can you do to control meth psychosis so that you can avoid an officer involved shooting (OIS)?