Wyy is it so difficult to break cocaine addition?
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Because cocaine actually causes a chemical reaction in the brain, gradually reducing seretonin (the pleasure chemical that tells you when you have had enough of something like when you eat, tells your body you don't need any more food when you are full)until you get to the point where your body thinks that the only thing that will satisfy all of its needs and cravings is the cocaine...evil shh--ite!
1019700
I would be one of your best sources for your book.  My name is Ame and I have a hell of a story to tell you about crack/cocaine.  My e-mail is amereese5683@yahoo.com
340770
Crack and cocaine users have died from overdose. High doses can raise the body's temperature, cause convulsions and respiratory arrest. Risk of overdosing increases if crack is mixed with heroin, barbiturates or alcohol.\nCocaine is bad news for anybody with high blood pressure or a heart condition. Perfectly fit, young people can have a fit or heart attack after taking too much coke. \nThose who get into coke often find they begin to crave it more and more. \nUsing it a lot makes people feel depressed and run down.\nToo much sniffing coke and you're sneezing lumps out of your nose into a hanky. \nPeople who use crack or coke regularly often develop serious problems with anxiety and paranoia. It's a known cause of panic attacks. \nBecause the effects wear off so quickly, cocaine and crack are expensive drugs. A cocaine habit can seriously damage your wallet. \nVery large doses can cause death from heart or respiratory problems. You may not know you have a pre-existing heart condition.\nLarge or frequent use of coke tends to knock sexual desire on the head.\nIf there have been previous mental health problems coke could bring those problems to the surface again. If a close relative has had mental health problems there might also be an increased risk in some users.\nInjecting any drug can cause vein damage, ulcers and gangrene. Dirty or shared needles and other injecting works can help the spread of HIV and hepatitis.\nIt's easier to overdose injecting. Cocaine is a local anaesthetic and it deadens pain at the injection site. This makes it harder for injectors to notice the damage they may be doing. \nUsing alcohol and cocaine together can be deadly.\nInjecting a mixture of cocaine and heroin, known as a 'Speedball' is one of the most dangerous cocktails you can put in a human body. It is also potentially deadly.\nTaking coke when you're pregnant can damage your baby. Coke causes miscarriage, premature labour and smaller babies and may cause congenital abnormalities. Babies born to mothers who keep using throughout their pregnancy show withdrawal syndrome.
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I am sorry to say you can't. The only one that can make them stop is the person who is addicted. I know this from personal experience, I am addicted to cocaine--I haven't used in over a year, but even though I am clean I am not foolish enough to think that I can ever use again. Once an addict always an addict. I don't know who the person that you are referring too is, whether it be you or someone you love, I just wish you all the best because addiction in any form is very hard to overcome--but remember it CAN be done--I am proof of this. Good luck to you and God bless.
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The thing is, sadly, coke is never easy on the body. Even if you are a super-fit athlete, coke constricts the blood vessels, so if you happen to have a narrow artery somewhere in the brain (which no-one knows about themselves until it's too late) where the vessels are by nature narrow, you can constrict one enough to prevent blood getting thru to that area of the brain, so that area dies - and that is a stroke or CVA. This is a permanent condition and can result in loss of use of one side of the body, ability to speak etc. This can happen in anyone, even the health conscious.\n\nMy second point is that the body needs rest periods between things to recover from stuff. Eating junk food is ok as long as it's not at every meal time for example. Having alcohol is ok, again, if the body can rest a few days a week without it.\n\nYour friend sounds mis-guided and addicted. Addiction makes people believe all sorts of things that allow them to top-up their habit....it's called denial. Try www.talktofrank.com for more info. about drugs.
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As with most other habit-forming drugs, frequent use of cocaine causes the user to focus mainly on the high received from that drug, and other needs take a lower priority (sometimes much lower).  In this case, a cocaine user might be more concerned with the high from the cocaine that he or she uses it to "replace" most of his or her food intake.  Even basic personal hygiene, such as bathing and brushing one's teeth, might be lower on their list of priorities because in their minds: "They gotta have that high!"\n\nAs with other things in life, misinformation can really prove detrimental.  It's sad to see the way some people fall into traps like this, with very minimal chances of getting out.
1100604
well i think that in the 70's cocaine was more of a glamourus thing and it was expensive so if you did coke it was more like a status symbol then it was frowned upon. Not to mention all the disco music and when you do coke it like keeps you up and gives you energy goes hand in hand with dancing. but they wanted more!! So then they went on to something else called freebasing. what that is is that they cut the coke with something else to make it more potent and you can smoke it . instead of snorting it. then when the poor people got their hands on the idea they instead of cutting it with whatever chemical they were doing it with they started to cut it with baking soda thus the birth of crack. then it became cheaper yet more addicting and then when the poor people got ahold of it it was considered a bad thing. chalk it up to society to turn their nose up at something that they created.
914228
take a couple roofies, or xanax and that should do the trick...
1095785
That's something you shouldn't know because you shouldn't be doing cocaine in the first place. It's dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1070158
I was in a relationship with a cocaine addict. I got out of it after MY health became an issue due to the stress he was causing ME. I know it may sound uncaring, but you have to look out for yourself.
198623
I think there are people out there that can do all kinds of things--not sure it's super strength, but maybe they have some kind of energy.  Saw a guy once who would take my cigarette wrapper (the foil part), and he would ask me to dip it in any liquid.  He would then take the foil wrapper and rub it in his hands, fold it up, put it in my hands, and it felt like it was going to burn me.  I don't think it was a trick--never could figure it out.
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i was trying to find an answer and the only thing i was able to find is this web site that basically explains EVERYTHING you need to know about cocaine...3/4 the way down is the section about cutting agents\n\nhttp://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/psychedelicchemistry/chapter8.html
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cocaine?  that's bad!!
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this is not normal as far as i know. you need to build a budget that takes into account your lifestyle. it also has to take into account things like clothing and car maintenance down the road. if you have a compulsion to spend you may think about setting a limit on it such as under 2.00 so that you can do it more often but its just like any addiction cold turkey is best but its also the hardest. seek therapy if this is a constant thing and if you feel forced to do it.
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cocaine is made from the leaves of the coca plant - about 10LB of leaves tomake 1Lb of cocaine.\n\nChemicals are used also but nothing terribly elaborate.\n\nSo "man modified" - but simply chewing the leaves "works" - and locals DO chew the leaves - for both recreation purposes and for pain relief
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I'm sure there is. Look it up in your yellow pages...ask places that you call if they know of a clinic specializing in cocaine.  Every state has a recovery facility!!
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I saw the skank earlier that night...drunk as hell, and hanging all over the guys. She was also snorting cocaine in the bathroom...\n\nSo, whether she fell or was pushed, who knows? I know that there is one less bar-fly at the local watering hole now...geez, I'll miss her and the donkey show she did...