RE:Well Horace “hard drugs” indeed … you can’t let it go, can you? That’s because you got caught, exposed.
Racing thoughts, incoherent articulation, inability to stay on track in one’s attempts at explication - going days on end without sleep - these are all symptoms of chronic methamphetamine use. Generally these people are far from dumb - that is not their problem. Their problem is that they are horribly addicted and exist in a whole other distorted reality. Their level of incoherence varies with their levels of drug intake (and their degree of exhaustion from lack of sleep and adequate self-care).
People with such dependencies are seldom able to hold down normal nine-to-five jobs - and must resort to sporadic, occasional employment when they can find it. They live lives where there is no real line of demarcation between night and day.
The thinking of such people at an advanced stage of meth addiction is characterized by, among other things, fantastical delusions of grandeur. Over time their lack of perspective and sound judgment becomes increasingly pronounced - and their paranoia increases. They become convinced that others are jealous of what they have - and are out to get them. A persecution complex takes hold and doesn't let go.
And on and on it goes …