Cocaine is the strongest psychogenic stimulant, giving a temporary euphoric sensation and a sense of striking clarity of mind. This vegetable narcotic substance is capable of forming a strong psychological dependence on a person. And its use causes serious health problems.
The effect of cocaine use
Cocaine has a high tolerance level, in other words, it is possible to repeat the initial pleasure sensations only by increasing the dose. After eating, the cocaine feels a euphoric rush, it overflows with energy, new abilities and inexhaustible possibilities are felt. A similar condition can be compared to a mild form of stress - a person's blood pressure rises, the hormones go off scale, etc.
Positive
Among the positive effects of taking cocaine, narcologists distinguish several characteristic effects:
- Euphoria. Without a definite reason, a person suddenly raises his mood. In his behavior, there is excessive talkative and talkative, sociability increases. A cocaine addict under cocaine intoxication can tell others about such details of his life that he would have kept in a sober mind in a sober mind.
- Mental activity. Being under the influence of cocaine, a person feels that he has significantly increased mental ability, memory has improved, he is capable of quickly resolving difficult situations, all his abilities have developed many times. However, after the cessation of the cocaine effect, all newly acquired abilities and knowledge disappear somewhere.
- The energy tide. Under cocaine, a drug addict experiences feelings of incredible performance, no drowsiness, while energy literally beats the key, and physical abilities seem unlimited. But in reality the movements lose coordination, while moving the cocaine constantly stumbles, often falls, losing balance, which often leads to serious injuries.
- Self-confidence. A person feels himself in all the right, everything he does is the only true action. It is good that in such a state cocaineists are not able to bring it to the logical conclusion, otherwise unreasonable ideas and actions, backed by delusions of grandeur and mission, could lead to very disastrous consequences.
Negative
Negative effects after cocaine are significantly greater and they pose a serious threat to the body:
- Cocaine has vasoconstrictive properties, in other words, reduces blood vessels.
- The drug helps increase the temperature and frequency of breathing, suppresses gag reflexes.
- If the doses are excessively high, then convulsions or tremors may occur. Such processes cause neurological damage, which results in the suppression of respiratory function and even the arrest of the myocardium, which leads to death.
- After the repeated introduction of the drug and its intensive impact on the cerebral structures controlling motivation and emotions, the cocaine organism becomes most prone to epileptic seizures.
- The drug deprives cocaine of appetite, which leads to the depletion of the body, an imbalance of metabolic processes and the necessary nutrients.
- Against the backdrop of chronic use, cocaine psychosis develops, including manic persecution, paranoid conditions, various hallucinations, lack of motivation and depressive disorders.
- Inhalation of a drug causes mucosal damage and inflammatory bowel disease.
- With intravenous injection, the risks of developing inflammation of the heart, blood, hepatitis and AIDS are increasing.
- When smoking a drug, cocaine is often a violation of pulmonary circulation, visual disturbances, causeless cough, chronic bronchitis, etc.
- When cocaine is combined with alcohol in the body, the formation of ethyl cocaine - a substance that causes myocardial arrhythmia and its complete stoppage.
Any way to use threatens a cocaine serious problems, even death. But what sensations make a person take more and more doses?
Sensations
Considering the effect of cocaine, it should be said that the feeling of euphoria lasts only about half an hour, while the maximum pleasure indicators appear only 5 minutes after smoking or inhaling.
Therefore, in the aftermath of cocaine use, addicts become shattered, dejected, dreary and depressed. As a result, a craving for cocaine is formed, since you can get rid of depression only by introducing a regular dose of cocaine.
Symptoms and Symptoms of
Cocaine may be suspected by external manifestations of a mental and physical nature. People who take drugs change behavior, they stop watching themselves, often show excessive self-confidence in their actions, is marked by a dramatically changing mood, etc.
Physiological
The following symptoms can give a person on cocaine:
- Extended pupils;
- Pale skin;
- Hyperopia;
- Increases in pulse;
- Tachycardia;
- Narrowing of blood vessels;
- Chills;
- Intestinal disorders;
- Hyperthermia;
- Rapid breathing;
- Inhibition of emetic reflexes;
- Frequent respiratory infections;
- Chronic rhinitis.
Overdose in cocaine may cause severe seizures. Cocaine-dependent begins to lose weight rapidly, its appearance becomes untidy. Cocaine eyes often appear bloodshot, which is associated with prolonged and debilitating insomnia. Because of the seeming bites of insects, the addict combs his skin. A similar phenomenon even became known as "cocaine bugs".
Psychological
Cocaine use has a marked effect on the behavior of the addict:
- As the drug causes euphoric states, the person becomes unreasonably happy.
- In his behavior there is an excessive swagger and self-confidence, excessive loquacity, haste in movements.
- A person laughs more than usual or can suddenly become impulsive and aggressive.
- Hallucinosis can become a hallmark of cocaine.
- Similar behavioral changes can be observed in humans for about half an hour.
- Cocaine drinkers should regularly retire for regular doses, so frequent absences in a bath or toilet on the background of the above symptoms should cause a grain of suspicion.
- Constant overexcitation against the background of cocaine use provokes insomnia and lack of appetite.
- The use of cocaine has certain consequences. So, after a fun evening spent under cocaine the next morning, a person experiences noticeable irritation, depression and lethargy. Some eliminate the effects of cocaine with alcohol, tranquilizers or sedatives.
- A person who consumes cocaine often has financial difficulties, because this drug is very expensive. Therefore, such people are often asked to borrow, without explaining the purpose of the loan. From the house valuable and expensive items start to disappear, the addict has to steal to pay doses of cocaine.
- Over time, cocaine addiction develops. The cocaine becomes dishonest, unreliable and secretive, in his behavior often there are sharp and unreasonable mood swings, there are signs of mental imbalance, depression. The drug addict neglects the former values of morals, the family, children, etc.
Cocaine-dependent people need professional drug treatment. Only a long and well-thought-out rehabilitation will help him to abandon cocaine.