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Cocaine In Your Body - Cognitive Information |
| Date Added: March 10, 2010 07:21:05 AM |
| Author: kismberly66 |
| Category: Computers & Internet: Web Directories: Niche Directories: Health |
| Cocaine represents a substance obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It is famous as a stimulant of the brain and in this way represents a a dangerous drug. It is in the list amid the oldest drugs and has been applied by people for a thousand of years. Cocaine drug is amongst the leading positions in the list of the most popular drugs in the US and Europe. The use of cocaine brings euphoria, energy and lots of positive emotions that may last for a few minutes or hours depending on the person's state of health and the amount taken. Such effect of the drug is explained by its powerful action on the brain, and by travelling through the blood the coke has an influence on the whole body. But at the same time it affects your health in a negative way and becomes a reason of heart attacks and strokes as it increases the blood pressure and heart rate and constricts the arteries supplying blood to the heart. Snorting coke causes damage to the sinuses and nose, smoking crack cocaine irritates the lungs. This all may bring to problems with breath. In addition to these symptoms, the overdose of cocaine may lead to fatal outcome. Despite all the negative side-effects of the coke dependence a lot of people still think that the coke drug isn't addictive since there is no withdrawal syndrome like when taking heroin or alcohol. But actually, coke has powerful psychological addictive characteristics. Numerous researches with cocaine have shown that coke-dependent animals prefer using coke to other activities and go on using it till they are exhausted. The reaction of humans is almost the same. The thoughts and lifestyle of a person is changing to a great extent. His ideas are focused on where to obtain the next dose. Such an addiction gradually results in the loss of family and job, poverty and even death. Today there are products for cleaning your system out of cocaine drug. In this way even people dependent on coke drug for a long time have a possibility to get out of the abuse. But the best decision will be not to be involved in using drugs at all. |
