| Cocaine is a substance obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It's famous as a stimulator of the brain and in such a way constitutes a a powerfully addictive drug. It's in essence one of the oldest drugs and has been used by people for a thousand of years.
Cocaine drug is amongst the leading positions in the list of the most widespread drugs in the US and Europe. The use of cocaine makes you feel energetic and euphoric and brings lots of positive emotions that may last for a few minutes or a couple of hours depending on the person's health and the dose taken. Such effect of the cocaine drug is explained by its powerful action on the brain, and with blood the coke drug travels to all organs and in such a way has an impact on the whole body.
But at the same time it influences your health in a negative way and becomes the reason of strokes and heart attacks since it raises the blood pressure and heart rate and constricts the heart arteries. Snorting coke causes harm to the nose and sinuses, smoking crack irritates the lungs. This all may result in problems with breath. In addition to these symptoms, the overdose of cocaine may result in fatal termination.
Despite all the negative side actions of the cocaine abuse lots of people still consider that the drug is not addictive since there is not any withdrawal syndrome like if using alcohol or heroin. But as a matter of fact, cocaine has powerful psychological addictive properties. Various researches with coke drug have shown that cocaine-addicted animals prefer taking coke drug to other activities and go on using it till they're exhausted. The human response is practically the same. The lifestyle of a person is changing to a great extent. His thoughts are concentrated on where to obtain the next dose. Such an addiction step by step brings to the loss of profession and family, poverty and even death.
These days there are medical products for cleaning the body out of cocaine drug. In such a way even people with long-term dependence on coke drug have an opportunity to overcome this abuse. But the best choice will be not to be engaged in taking drugs at all. |
