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Cocaine And Your Health - Interesting Facts |
| Date Added: March 10, 2010 07:38:03 AM |
| Author: kismberly66 |
| Category: Health: Medicine |
| The coca plant has been used for producing cocaine since the earliest times. It's famous to be a stimulant of the central nervous system and thus represents a a powerfully addictive drug. It is in the list amidst the oldest drugs and has been used by people for more than a thousand of years. Cocaine drug has one of the leading positions in the list of the most popular drugs in Europe and the US. The application of cocaine makes you feel euphoric and energetic and brings lots of positive emotions that last for some time – a few minutes or hours according to the person's state of health and the dose taken. Such effect of the coke drug is explained by its powerful action on the brain, and with blood the coke drug travels to all organs and in this way has an influence on the whole body. But at the same time it influences your health in a negative way and is the cause of strokes and heart attacks since it raises the heart rate and blood pressure and constricts the arteries supplying blood to the heart. Snorting coke damages the sinuses and nose, smoking cocaine drug irritates the lungs. All this may lead to problems with breathing. Apart from these symptoms, the overdose of coke drug may result in lethal outcome. In spite of all the negative side-actions of the cocaine dependence a lot of people still consider that the drug is not addictive since there is not any withdrawal symptoms like if taking alcohol and heroin. But as a matter of fact, cocaine has powerful addictive properties. Numerous researches with coke have shown that coke-addicted animals prefer using cocaine drug to other activities and continue using it till they're exhausted. The reaction of humans is practically the same. The lifestyle of a person is changing to an unbelievable extent. His thoughts are concentrated on where to obtain the next dose. Such a dependence little by little results in the loss of family and profession, poverty and even lethal outcome. Now there are medical products for cleaning the organism out of coke. This way even people with long-term dependence on cocaine have a chance to get out of this abuse. But the best decision will be not to be engaged in using drugs at all. |
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