| Cocaine is a substance extracted from the leaves of the coca plant. It's known as a stimulant of the central nervous system and thus constitutes a powerful and dangerous drug. It is in the list amidst the oldest drugs and has been applied by people for a thousand of years.
Cocaine has one of the leading positions in the list of the most widespread drugs in Europe and America. The use of cocaine makes you feel euphoric and energetic and brings plenty of positive emotions that last for some time – a few minutes or a couple of hours according to the person's state of health and the amount taken. Such effect of the cocaine drug is explained by its action on the brain, and by travelling through the blood the cocaine has an influence on the whole body.
But at the same time it negatively influences and becomes the reason of strokes and heart attacks as it raises the heart rate and blood pressure and constricts the arteries supplying blood to the heart. Snorting coke causes damage to the nose and sinuses, smoking crack cocaine irritates the lungs. All this may result in problems with breathing. In addition to the mentioned symptoms, the overdose of cocaine drug may lead to lethal outcome.
Despite all the negative side effects of the coke dependence some people still consider that the drug isn't addictive because there is no physical withdrawal syndrome like if using alcohol or heroin. But actually, coke drug has powerful psychological addictive properties. Numerous investigations with coke drug have shown that cocaine-dependent animals prefer taking coke drug to other activities and continue using it until they are exhausted. The reaction of humans is practically the same. The behavior of a person is becoming different from the previous lifestyle. His ideas are concentrated on how to get the next dose. Such a dependence step by step brings to the loss of family and profession, poverty and even fatal outcome.
At present there are medications for detoxing your body out of coke drug. In this way even people with long-term dependence on cocaine drug have a chance to get out of the abuse. But the best choice will be not to be involved in using drugs at all. |
