Cocaine addiction is a deadly addiction a person could have. This drug comes from a plant called coca, it is called crack cocaine when it is made to smoke. Cocaine can be snorted as a powder through the nose or it can be dissolved and injected into the blood stream. When cocaine is snorted it goes up the nose where the sinus cavity dissolves it and it is then entered into the blood stream.
Cocaine addiction starts with about 5% of the users that are trying it for their first time. DEA has it classified as one of the scheduled 2 drugs. One reason cocaine addiction is common in users is because they lose their high rather quickly causing them to want another dose of the drug so they can keep their high leading them to repeat this binge of doses.
Cocaine addiction will affect the part of the brain that controls a person’s pleasure causing them to have a negative outlook on life. There will be physical changes go on in the brain as well due to cocaine addiction. When the brain tells the body it feels bad the person automatically thinks they should use more cocaine. Although they feel an immediate high it quickly disappears with their mood changing also. Watching someone go through a cocaine addiction is very hard but while everybody that’s around the person with the addiction sees they need help the addict doesn’t see it and will cause a number of deaths that very same way.
The following are some physical signs of someone having a cocaine addiction:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Tremors
- Hyperactive
- Running a temperature
- Dilated pupils
- High Blood Pressure
- Weight loss
- Blood shot eyes
- Sniffing, running nose
- Constricted blood vessels
- Higher heart rate
- Nosebleeds
- Chills
- Perspiration
- When addiction has been stopped or if the binge has come to an end, the addict will have depression soon after
If you or someone you know is addicted to cocaine, call A Forever Recovery now, it could save your life or the life of your loved one.
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