Presumed Located OH - Samantha Bowman, 21, Ironton, 13 Oct 2018

[JerseyGirl]

Samantha Bowman was last seen by her family on Oct. 13 when Bowman and her boyfriend spent several hours on the Saturday afternoon at her mother's home. When Bowman's boyfriend woke up the next morning at a friend's house nearby, Bowman was gone and her bag too.

Her mother said two years ago her daughter started down the dark path of drugs addiction, which has only made only mental health problems worse. That makes her worried her daughter could be somewhere and forgotten her phone number or address.

Mother desperate to hear from daughter missing last 19 days

 

[Darling136]

She was arrested just early Oct
https://www.irontontribune.com/2018/10/05/jail-log-10-6-18/#//

 

[MissMalowe]

Not knowing phone numbers off hand I can understand because most people just have all the numbers they need saved to their phones and never actually dial them number by number....but what drug would make someone forget their home address, or where their mother lives?

 

[GraceG]

Not knowing phone numbers off hand I can understand because most people just have all the numbers they need saved to their phones and never actually dial them number by number....but what drug would make someone forget their home address, or where their mother lives?

Hundreds of studies have shown a link between substance abuse and memory loss. While research has demonstrated varying results, even within categories of drugs studied, virtually all studies have found that mood-changing and mind-altering drugs do affect memory, particularly with long-term use.

Drugs such as benzodiazepines interfere with the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory. For this reason, benzodiazepines are often used as anesthesia for medical procedures: They cause us to forget pain and discomfort. Sleeping pills, known as Z drugs, blunt memory in a similar way.

Opioids also impair both short- and long-term memory by inhibiting our perception of pain within the central nervous system and dulling our reaction to pain.

 

[MissMalowe]

Would it be very sudden....someone not remembering where they live or would it be more gradual/increasing? The mother mentions her recent abuse of drugs in the article, but not anything about recently being unable to locate her home etc before so I just found that odd.

 

[GraceG]

Would it be very sudden....someone not remembering where they live or would it be more gradual/increasing? The mother mentions her recent abuse of drugs in the article, but not anything about recently being unable to locate her home etc before so I just found that odd.

It can be both. But the dopamine overload in the brain from the overuse of opoids hyper stimulates the brain’s capacity for memory, causing such mnemonic difficulties as short-term blackout and sudden mild amnesia.

 

[Darling136]

Arrest from Sept 2019

Samantha R. Bowman, 22, Ironton, warrant, Sept. 9.

Jail Log - 9/18/2019 - The Tribune

 

[evilwise]

People with amnesia severe enough to forget their own identities are the stuff of medical research papers. Just sayin'

If her drug habit is so devastating to her life, though I hope she cleans up - for her mother's sake if nothing else.