Formication

Words.  Every discipline has its own words.  There are strange words in chemistry and equally strange words in poetry.  But medicine and toxicology may top them all. 

Today's word is "formication".  I know what you are thinking. "I saw one of those growing in a cave!"  Close, but incorrect.  Formication is an odd delusion that is associated with methamphetamine abuse.  The abuser thinks that their skin is being infested and bitten by bugs.  What do you do when bugs on your skin?  You pick them off.  So formication is the act of picking your skin when nothing is there.  As a result your skin doesn't look to good. 

Its true, sometime a picture is better than words.