health & physical effects of cocaine addiction

[kadence]

Changes in blood pressure, heart rates, and breathing rates

Nausea

Vomiting

Anxiety

Convulsions

Insomnia

Loss of appetite leading to malnutrition and weight loss

Cold sweats

Swelling and bleeding of mucous membranes

Restlessness and anxiety

Damage to nasal cavities

Damage to lungs

Possible heart attacks, strokes, or convulsions

HEALTH EFFECTS

Even though the public is often regaled with highly publicized accounts of deaths from cocaine, many still mistakenly believe the drug, especially when sniffed, to be nonaddictive and not as harmful as other illicit drugs. Cocaine's immediate physical effects include raised breathing rate, raised blood pressure and body temperature, and dilated pupils.

By causing the coronary arteries to constrict, blood pressure rises and the blood supply to the heart diminishes. This can cause heart attacks or convulsions within an hour after use. Chronic users and those with hypertension, epilepsy, and cardiovascular disease are at particular risk. Studies show that even those with no previous heart problems risk cardiac complications from cocaine. Increased use may sensitize the brain to the drug's effects so that less of the substance is needed to induce a seizure. Those who inject the drug are at high risk for AIDS and hepatitis when they share needles. Allergic reactions to cocaine or other substances mixed in with the drug may also occur.

[djscotphreak]

To stay out of the basement. You are really killin the modd here with all of yer drugs are bad...ummmmk talk

[kadence]

do you think i care what you say or think...i am just tellin the truth