Cocaine

Cocaine is an alkaloid used as drugs, derived from the Erythroxylum Coca plant, is highly addictive and brings a variety ofdamage to its users. The drug acts on the central system and cause euphoria, well-being and sociability. Its effects are confusing the organism causing the individual wants to use more and more.

In addition, cause arrhythmias, increases blood pressure and dilates the pupil. Frequent use causes muscle aches, loss of appetite and chills. Cocaine is made with various chemicals, and normally the traffickers alter their composition to makemore profit.

Cocaine causes a rapid and intense euphoria that is immediately followed by the opposite — an intense depression, tensionand greed for more of the drug. The people who consume don't eat or sleep properly. They may suffer a very high heart rate,muscle spasms and convulsions. The drug can make the person feel paranoid .1 angry, hostile and anxious, even when the person is not euphoric.

Regardless of the amount or frequency of consumption of the drug, cocaine increases the risk of consumers suffering fromheart attack, stroke, seizures or respiratory failure, and any one of these cause sudden death.

What are the short-term effects of cocaine?

Cocaine causes a rapid and intense euphoria that is immediately followed by the opposite — an intense depression, tensionand greed for more of the drug. The people who consume don't eat or sleep properly. They may suffer a very high heart rate, muscle spasms and convulsions. The drug can make the person feel paranoid .1 angry, hostile and anxious, even whenthe person is not euphoric.

Regardless of the amount or frequency of consumption of the drug, cocaine increases the risk of consumers suffering fromheart attack, stroke, seizures or respiratory failure, and any one of these cause sudden death.

What are the long-term effects of cocaine?

The word "hooked" was invented many years ago to describe the negative side effects of the constant use of cocaine. As the tolerance to the drug increases, becomes necessary to use more and larger amounts to get the same euphoria. Theprolonged daily use causes loss of sleep and appetite. A person can become psychotic and begin to hallucinate.

Cocaine interferes with the way the brain processes chemicals, a person needs more and more drugs to feel "normal".People who become addicted to cocaine (as well as by most other drugs) lose interest in other areas of life.

Reduce the drug causes a depression so severe that the person will do almost anything to get the drug — even commit murder.

And if you don't get the coke, depression can become so intense that can lead the addict to suicide.

Short-term effects

Loss of appetite

Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature

Contraction of peripheral blood vessels

Increased respiratory rate

Dilated pupils

Disturbed sleep patterns

Nausea

Hyperstimulation

Bizarre behavior, erratic, sometimes violent

Hallucinations, hyperexcitability, irritability

Tactile hallucinations that create the illusion of bugs crawling under the skin

Euphoria intense

Anxiety and paranoia

Depression

Intense craving for the drug

Panic and psychosis

Excessive doses (even if only once) can cause seizures, strokes and sudden death.

Long-term effects

Irreversible damage in coronary blood vessels and brain

High blood pressure that causes heart attacks, strokes and death

Damage to the liver, kidneys and lungs

Destruction of nasal tissues if inhaled

Respiratory failure if it smoked

Infectious diseases and abscess if injected

Bad-nutrition, weight loss

Severe tooth decay

Auditory and tactile hallucinations

Sexual dysfunction, reproductive damage and infertility (both men and women)

Disorientation, apathy, confusion and exhaustion

Irritability and mood disorders

Increased frequency of risky behavior

Delirium or psychosis

Severe depression

Tolerance and dependence (even when consumed only once)

"Don't touch the cocaine. I spent two years in jail because of this drug. And when I left, life was so hard that I started usingdrugs again. I know 10 women who become prostitutes because of cocaine. Is much more extreme and degrading than we believe. At the time we don't realize the extent to which destroys us. "– Shawne.

Cocaine causes damage to the heart, kidneys, brain and lungs.

dependency

Smoking 6-8 seconds

Intravenous injection, 10-20 seconds

Smell 3-5 minutes

Chewing produces a lower and stable level of drugs

Cocaine in pregnancy causes loss of neurons in brain of baby.

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