For situations where the choices are “stay awake and be safe” or “fall asleep and get yourself (and likely your buddies) killed”, methamphetamine at functional doses is a wonderful (and generally safe) companion.
As long as you only do it occasionally.
As an occasional emergency-override stay-awake stimulant in low doses, it’s more effective and has fewer side effects than alternatives like caffeine.
As a continuous daily dose, especially at higher recreational doses, it’s a complete nightmare. Makes you stupid, paranoid, and, eventually, psychotic. You’ll grind your teeth to stubs and get malnutrition from B-vitamin depletion and forgetting to eat. Nasty, nasty stuff.
As Galen the Physician said long ago, “The poison is in the dose.”
