Cocaine has become increasingly popular over the years. Currently, more than 50% of patients going into drug rehab do so as a result of their addiction to this drug. Presently, there is not a valid medical treatment for cocaine. The first step in effectively doing something to stop an addiction to cocaine is to understand how and why it is and becomes so addictive.
An addiction to cocaine can start just after a short experimentation with it. It is most commonly snorted through the nostrils but more acclimated individuals will inject it into the vein, while some choose to smoke it. If snorted, the effects can last anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes and can take effect in as little as a few minutes. This all depends on how large the dosage and how tolerant the user. When smoked, the effects of cocaine are far more intense and come on more quickly, but tend to also wear off just as fast. Injection of the drug offers similar effects.
People who use cocaine often do so to suppress some type of pain in their life. Cocaine is known to release what is called dopamine. Dopamine is a naturally occurring substance that when release into the brain causes pleasure. Cocaine prompts the release of this and inhibits any re-absorption of it to cause an overstimulation of the brain; thus causing intense pleasure. This heightened sense of pleasure where’s off quickly and when it does, withdrawal symptoms occur. Symptoms include, but not limited to, are: depression, paranoia, insomnia, anxiety, irritability, or aggression. Because the body is immediately surged with such intense pleasure, it must balance itself out by making the addict feel an intense depression, therefore inducing the need to do the drug again.
While there are many long term effects of cocaine, short term effects are also very common. These can include the withdrawal to the drug and a depressive episode that can last for days. The use of cocaine is also often combined with alcohol and most will tend to drink more due to the lack of feeling the depressant effects of alcohol. High doses of cocaine can make the user be paranoid, delusional, psychotic and even violent. It is also known to increase blood pressure, respiration and heart rate. This, in turn, increases the likelihood of a stroke or heart attacks. Ongoing use has been known to cause seizures and even death.
The initial step to successful treatment of cocaine abuse is to understand how the addiction doesn’t necessarily leave the brain after 3 days. While its most intense effects with have subdued and even subsided, many users complain of craving for years after they have stopped using. Many traditional treatments are ineffective due to their lack of properly detoxifying the body. Even detox specialists have only been trained to treat cocaine as a drug that leaves the body in several days and ignore its oftentimes ongoing effects. For this reason, proper outpatient and follow care is essential to a proper and lifelong solution.
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