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*Methamphetamine Addiction
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The increased energy sometimes referred to as a rush, draw many first-time users to try cocaine. The quick high will keep you up longer and can increase your endurance in many physical activities. Some people who are new to cocaine try it to increase work productivity to work longer hours and be supposedly more creative. Although this might work at first it tends to lead to increased usage that leads to becoming addicted.

Increased heart rate, blood pressure, constricted blood vessels, dilated pupils, and increased temperature are all short-term physiological cocaine effects. Large doses of cocaine will intensify the users high, which in turn sometimes cause the cocaine user to display erratic and violent behavior.

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Do you ever experience the following?

Do you look forward to drinking or getting high at the end of a work day?

Have you ever wondered about your high tolerance to drink or use drugs and were perhaps somewhat proud of this?

Do you find it difficult to enjoy yourself at a party if there is nothing to drink or drugs to use?

Do you ever drink or use drugs to help you sleep?

Have you ever failed to keep your promises to yourself about controlling or cutting down your drinking or using?

Have you ever missed worked because of your drinking or using, maybe because of hangovers?

Are you unhappy with yourself when you look in the mirror? Do you like (or proud) what you see?

Do you feel wore out or tired alot?

Have you ever used the expression that “I was feeling down and that I just needed a pick me up.”

Have you ever said that you know you have been drinking or using a lot lately it’s just that you are under a lot of stress right now.

Have you told a loved one that “I’m sorry and it will pass”?

If you have answered “yes” to any of the preceding questions, then you may want to consider the possibility of having an addiction that is growing out of your control. Contact our counselors 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a FREE, confidential consultation today.

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As soon as the cocaine enters the blood stream it begins to take control of the abuser mentally. The person becomes absolutely consumed with the prospect of getting more and more of the drug. This grows larger to the point that the mental obsession begins to manifest itself in the abusers actions. The abuser will begin to do anything to receive more cocaine. They will stoop down to levels they never thought their soul could reach. This includes stealing from loved ones, all the way down the line until they find themselves in jail for a crime they never thought they could commit.

The physical being of the abuser is affected almost instantaneous. The body’s chemical makeup adjusts itself in order to acquire the ability to consume cocaine. Therefore from the first ingestion of the chemical the person is hooked physically. The physical aspect of the cocaine abuse symptoms has quite a range of extremes. At first the person will just lose their appetite. This is a more subtle cocaine abuse symptom. Then slowly the septum of the nasal passage is eaten away. Once again this is a symptom only noticed by the abuser themselves. Eventually though, the abuser will become physically ill. This includes stomach cramps, the breaking out in cold sweats, and the increased heart rate, which wears away at the hearts ability to function correctly. All of these physical symptoms lead to the last cocaine abuse symptom-death.

Source: NIDA – National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Many cocaine addicts develop a high tolerance for the use of cocaine with continued use of the drug. Seeking the high that was involved with the first use of cocaine is common among cocaine addicts. The reality of drug addiction is that this high will never be felt again and some addicts chase this for years causing them to lose everything.

Withdrawal

For years people have been becoming dependent on cocaine. This dependence (although not always known to the abuser) is in fact a physical dependence. When the abuser makes the decision to be released from the binds of cocaine abuse they must undertake this process of cocaine withdrawal. This can be painful but the end result is freedom from cocaine abuse.

The cocaine withdrawal begins as soon as the person puts down the cocaine for just one day. The beginning of the withdrawal procedure is the hardest. The cocaine user will automatically want to put more of the drug in their system. The body will tell the mind that cocaine is needed. This physiological communication will flip the switch of obsession back on. The obsession will begin the search for more and more of the drug. This stage will occur within the first week of cocaine withdrawal. After the first week of cocaine withdrawal the body will have released the communication with the mind. The body will no longer need the cocaine. Unfortunately the abuser will not know this mentally and will still search for more.

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Some other long-term effects are lying to others about the use of cocaine, lying to one-self about becoming addicted, stealing to support the sometimes very expensive cocaine habit, and absenteeism at work.

Long-term Cocaine Effects: Addiction, Paranoia, Irritability, Restlessness, Auditory, Hallucinations

Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine affects the body in many ways, which in turn causes cocaine effects to be very dangerous by putting your body at risk. There are many cocaine effects that will be discussed in the following summary that can be grouped into two distinct categories, short and long term effects. Short-term cocaine effects appear almost immediately after a single use. While long-term cocaine effects can appear at different times after an extended time of use, all depending on the duration and amount of cocaine used.

The short-term effects of cocaine will be noticed right away which in some cases of use can cause serious bodily damage and in some cases lead to death. Cocaine-related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizures followed by respiratory arrest. Increased energy, decreased appetite, and increased heart rate and blood pressure are some short-term effects that will be noticed by most first time cocaine users.

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Health Hazards

Irreversible side-effects. Steroid users are vulnerable to more than 70 physical and psychological side effects, many of which are irreversible. Steroid use most seriously injures the liver and cardiovascular and reproductive systems. In males, steroids can cause withered testicles, sterility, and hair loss. In females, steroids can lead to irreversible masculine traits such as breast reduction. Psychological effects in both sexes can include depression and an increase in aggressive behavior.

Long-term problems. While some side effects appear quickly, other potential health effects, such as heart attacks and strokes, may not occur for years. Steroid abuse in young adults can interfere with bone growth and lead to permanently stunted growth. People who inject steroids also risk contracting HIV and other blood-borne diseases from infected needles.

Source- National Institute on Drug Abuse

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