Cocaine is a drug produced using the leaves of the coca plant Cocaine is otherwise called coke, C, drop, snow, break, and blow. Cocaine is an energizer, which means it expands readiness and energy. It influences the neuropathy courses in your mind, driving you to feel garrulous, enthusiastic, and euphoric. Cocaine addiction can develop quickly, even after trying it only a few times.
What is Cocaine Addiction?
Cocaine is one of the most widely abused stimulants. Cocaine is one of the oldest known drugs and has been abused around the world for decades. Cocaine addiction leads to extreme physical and psychological consequences that can have permanent effects on the user and those around them.
Psychological effects of cocaine addiction include:
- Paranoia
- Panic
- Hallucinations
- Aggression
- Irritability
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Impaired judgment
- Repetitive or abnormal behaviors
Physical effects of cocaine addiction include:
- Unhealthy weight loss
- Increased heart rate
- Nausea
- Abdominal pain
- Headaches
- Chest pain
- Heart arrhythmia
- Heart attack
- Seizure
- Stroke
Medical conditions:
- Respiratory diseases
- Weakened immune system
- Hepatitis
- Gangrene of the bowels.
Signs of Cocaine Addiction
- Covered clothing
- Weight loss
- Money lost or missing
- Mood changes
- Isolating from loved ones or friends
- Agitation
- Paranoia
- Sleep disturbances
- Hallucinations
- Delusions
- Uncontrolled violence
- Breakdown of nasal cartilage
Risks of Cocaine Addiction:
Addiction to this powerful stimulant develops easily, in part because the effects of the drug only last for a short time. To sustain the high, users will often take cocaine repeatedly in a short period. Chronic use leads to a physical tolerance to the drug, which forces the user to take increasingly higher doses to continue or produce the same high, swiftly leading to physical and psychological addiction.
Methods of using cocaine:
Snorting:
Cocaine is used in some different ways and some of the methods of having a more powerful impact than others. One of the most common methods of cocaine use is to snort the drug, which causes effects that last for about an hour and then gradually taper off. To prevent the “coming down” effect, the user will snort more cocaine each hour or less to keep the high going and to prevent withdrawal symptoms.
Injecting:
Another method of cocaine use is to inject the drug using a needle. This method has many additional risks and adverse effects. Shooting or injecting cocaine is dangerous because it can:
- Produce a much stronger high
- Lead to the contraction of blood-borne diseases from the use of shared needles
- Cause an increased risk of infection
- Produce an increased risk of overdose because it is difficult to measure the potency of an injected dose and because the full load is very quickly delivered to the brain
Injecting cocaine can cause additional health complications that are typically more dangerous with more severe long-term consequences than those experienced from snorting or smoking cocaine
The effects of injecting cocaine include:
- Increased risk of contracting blood-borne diseases such as HIV or hepatitis
- Infection of the injection site
- Allergic reaction
- Death
Smoking:
Cocaine can also be smoked. In its soft form, the drug is typically added to another substance, such as sprinkling cocaine in a joint of marijuana or mixing it with standard tobacco for a hand-rolled cigarette. The effect of smoking cocaine in its powdered form is not typically as strong as when the drug is manipulated through chemical changes and cooked into a hard form called crack. Smoking crack is highly addictive, highly dangerous, and a much larger problem for users than other forms of cocaine.
The way cocaine is taken affects the duration of its effects as well. Faster absorption creates a more intense high, but for a shorter time. For example, the effects of smoking last 5 to 10 minutes, but are felt immediately. When snorted, the cocaine high takes longer to arrive but lasts 15 to 30 minutes.
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