what does cocaine do to the human body?
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Well it speeds up the heart. When persons die from cocaine use it is usually because their heart gives out because it has been overworked for so long.
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That's something you shouldn't know because you shouldn't be doing cocaine in the first place. It's dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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yeah because cocaine is prob one of the worst.. they are both class a drugs but out of the 2 speed is better. It doesnt have any come downs but it is very dangerous as it makes you hard speed up and if your body reacts you can die. Cocaine changed you hole personality. My ex boyfriend got himself in so much trouble though it.... he owes money to big people. It starts off as harmless fun every now and again but its addicitive and hard to get off.\n\nTry and make them stop everything.. drugs are illegal for a reason. I know that sounds boring and goodie goodie but trust me, i know people whos lives have gone so bad through drugs. I live in a society where drugs are a normal weekend thing... my friends are so different when they do this, and i cant bare to be around them. They look depserate all fighting over the last sniff or tablet! its horrible
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You lose a lot of weight, its like cocaine.
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Drugs are substances that cause a physical or mental change in your body. If they are used therapeutically, they get classed as pharmaceuticals.
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One thing i can tell u is that it is highly addictive and expensive habit. If u snot coke it goes straight to your brain. Also, if your an avid sniffer u can damage your nose tissue. Cocaine will actually eat away the tissue in your nose. Play At Your Own Risk!!!
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The thing is, sadly, coke is never easy on the body. Even if you are a super-fit athlete, coke constricts the blood vessels, so if you happen to have a narrow artery somewhere in the brain (which no-one knows about themselves until it's too late) where the vessels are by nature narrow, you can constrict one enough to prevent blood getting thru to that area of the brain, so that area dies - and that is a stroke or CVA. This is a permanent condition and can result in loss of use of one side of the body, ability to speak etc. This can happen in anyone, even the health conscious.\n\nMy second point is that the body needs rest periods between things to recover from stuff. Eating junk food is ok as long as it's not at every meal time for example. Having alcohol is ok, again, if the body can rest a few days a week without it.\n\nYour friend sounds mis-guided and addicted. Addiction makes people believe all sorts of things that allow them to top-up their habit....it's called denial. Try www.talktofrank.com for more info. about drugs.
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it is extracted from the coca plant in south america, BUT there are so many other things that are in most batches of cocaine (meaning cocaine is "cut with" other products) such as analgesic drugs or even things like vitamin c or talcom powder, and most street coke is only around 40% pure cocaine...so its hard to say what the main ingredient is.\n\nthe side effects depend on the frequency of use, how long you have been using, and how much you blow. an occaisonal user will probably experience little to no side effects, while a moderate user (once or twice a week) may begin to experince a "drained" feeling somewhere around 30-60 minutes after use, or a slight increase in irritability or other such things. a heavy user (every day, multiple times a day) will experience a pretty harsh come-down where one would feel exhausted, depressed, and like there is no point to doing anything because everything feels so BLAH and the only important or fun thing is drugs. they start to have mood swings, become irritated easily, paranoid, insomnia sets in which causes one to do more and more coke throughout the day to stay awake and live. it effects your life and your friends and at some point its hard to function in a normal day. pretty soon you NEED it, coke is all you think about. you think about when you can do it next, how much you have left, and where you can get it when you run out....\n\ni think that is probably all i can say at this point.
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Crack and Cocaine have dopamine in them, Dopamine makes you smile and makes you happy, Your Body naturally produces Dopamine but Drugs like that give you extra, then addiction happens because the natural dopamine that your body had, was replaced by the artificial dopamine. Usually, by this stage its too late for people to quit, they are addicted like crazy. So once you try it, being peer pressure or whatever, you truly cant stop.
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Acute\nCocaine is a potent central nervous system stimulant. Its effects can last from 20 minutes to several hours, depending upon the dosage of cocaine taken, purity, and method of administration.\n\nThe initial signs of stimulation are hyperactivity, restlessness, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate and euphoria. The euphoria is sometimes followed by feelings of discomfort and depression and a craving to experience the drug again. Side effects can include twitching, paranoia, and inability to get an erection, which usually increases with frequent usage.\n\nWith excessive dosage the drug can produce hallucinations, paranoid delusions, tachycardia, itching, and formication.\n\nOverdose causes tachyarrhythmias and a marked elevation of blood pressure. These can be life-threatening, especially if the user has existing cardiac problems.\n\nThe LD50 of cocaine when administered to mice is 95.1 mg/kg. [13] Toxicity results in seizures, followed by respiratory and circulatory depression of medullar origin. This may lead to death from respiratory failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, or heart-failure. Cocaine is also highly pyrogenic, because the stimulation and increased muscular activity cause greater heat production. Heat loss is inhibited by the intense vasoconstriction. Cocaine-induced hyperthermia may cause muscle cell destruction and myoglobinuria resulting in renal failure. There is no specific antidote for cocaine overdose.\n\nCocaine's primary acute effect on brain chemistry is to raise the amount of dopamine and serotonin in the nucleus accumbens (the pleasure center in the brain); this effect ceases, due to metabolism of cocaine to inactive compounds and particularly due to the depletion of the transmitter resources (tachyphylaxis). This can be experienced acutely as feelings of depression, as a "crash" after the initial high. Further mechanisms occur in chronic cocaine use.\n\n[edit]\nChronic\nWith chronic cocaine intake, brain cells functionally adapt (respond) to strong imbalances of transmitter levels in order to compensate extremes. So receptors disappear from or reappear on the cell surface, resulting more or less in an "off" or "working mode" respectively, or they change their susceptibility for binding partners (ligands) – mechanisms called down-/upregulation. Chronic cocaine use leads to a DAT upregulation, further contributing to depressed mood states. Finally, a loss of vesicular monoamine transporters appears to indicate a long term damage of dopamine neurons.\n\nAll these effects contribute to the rise in an abuser's tolerance thus requiring a larger dosage to achieve the same effect. The lack of normal amounts of serotonin and dopamine in the brain is the cause of the dysphoria and depression felt after the initial high. The diagnostic criteria for cocaine withdrawal is characterized by a dysphoric mood, fatigue, unpleasant dreams, insomnia or hypersomnia, E.D., increased appetite, psychomotor retardation or agitation, and anxiety.\n\nCocaine abuse also has multiple physical health consequences. It is associated with a lifetime risk of heart attack that is seven times that of non-users. During the hour after cocaine is used, heart attack risk rises 24-fold.\n\nSide effects from chronic smoking of cocaine include chest pain, lung trauma, shortness of breath, sore throat, hoarse voice, dyspnea, and an aching, flu-like syndrome. A common misconception is that the smoking of cocaine breaks down tooth enamel and causes tooth decay. Although this is not true, the lifestyle of frequent cocaine users may include poor dental hygiene, which often results in tooth decay. In addition, cocaine often causes involuntary tooth grinding, known as bruxism, which can deteriorate tooth enamel and lead to gingivitis[citation needed].\n\nChronic intranasal usage can degrade the cartilage separating the nostrils (the septum nasi), leading eventually to its complete disappearance.
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Methamphetamines in general mimick the neurotransmitters Epinephrine and Norepinephrine. These are naturally produced in the body and regulated by other neurotransmitters. The meth will bind to the receptors for those neurotransmitters resulting in a stimulant effect of high magnitude. The more you use the drug the more tolerant the body becomes and the less natural epinephrine and norepinephrine are produced by the body to compensate for the excess(as it recognizes the drug as the neurotransmitter and will quit producing it over time). This results in a higher threshold to get "high" and therefore more of the drug required. At the same time the body is become dependant on the artificial supply being given to the body and the user becomes physically as well as psychologically dependant. The drug itself is extremely corrosive causing widespread damage to any and all tissue it comes in contact with, ultimately resulting in perferated septum, rotting teeth and gums, erroding esophagus, failing kidneys, etc, etc, etc. Dependant users get to the point that they will give up anything to get the drug, ultimately costing them their jobs, their relationships, their dignity and their life.
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O.K. Check this out!\n\nThe act of Eating normally triggers the bowels to move. (Take a dump)\n\nCocaine is a stimulant and causes the body to feel nervous and YES the result is having to take a dump.\n\nBut the urge for Cocaine users to do this is usually wihtin the first 15 minutes the first line or blast of Cocaine has been snorted.\n\nI hate to turn your friend out but if you really wan't to know for sure if your friend is getting high "LOOK AT THE PUPILS OF THE EYE" Cocaine like other drugs causes the pupils (The black spot in your eye) to dialate.(Get Big)\n\nBut Cocaine will not cause the pupils to dialate immediately. It takes some people 20min to 45min on the drug before this effect happens depending on the dosage taken and their body size. "But it will happen - Pupils will dialate!
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No and no, 99.9% of drug fund organized crime. So the money people spend on drugs can go towards people smuggling, prostitution and other crimes which take advantage of vulnerable people.\n\nAnother worry with drugs is that very few drugs bought are 100% pure and are cut with other compounds. These can be anything your dealer wants or finds lying around. With horror stories such as Ajax (bleach in powder form) being used to cut cocaine, I really wouldn't want to put that up my nose!\n\nAfter briefly studying the effects of drugs during my chemistry degree. What I saw about the effects of drugs on various parts of the body put me off even thinking about taking any type of drug in my lifetime. Even 'harmless' weed has been shown to cause long term effect on the brain. Although weed has less tar in it than tobacco it still has tar in it which is not good for you at all.
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no, but as you already know cocaine use causes a host of other health problems but gall stones isnt one of them
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MOST DRUGS CAN KILL YOU. I HAVE KNOWN OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE ECSTASY FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME AND DIED. I HAVE ALSO KNOWN PEOPLE TO DO CRACK /COCAINE WHICH CAN CAUSE HEART ATTACKS, SEZIURES, STROKES, RESPITORY OR BRAIN ANUERISMS. ICE/CRYSTAL METH HAS MORE OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT ON THE BRAIN. ALL DRUGS ARE HIGHLY ADDICTIVE REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOUR FRIENDS TELL YOU. HERE ARE SOME WEB SITES BELOW THAT CAN GIVE YOU A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF EFFECTS. REMEMBER THAT TAKING ANY TYPE OF ILLEGAL DRUG IS A GAMBLE BOTH LEGAL AND HEALTH.
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Alcohol and cocaine both depresses the respiratory drive and the person is prone to aspiration (getting food or fluid into the lungs). Cocaine also cause involuntary muscle contractions as well as myocardial infarction ( a heart attack). This is a simplified excerpt from emedicine which shows you that cocaine causes the following:\n\nA.Central nervous system and neuromuscular system\n   1. Headache: Cocaine use commonly results in headaches. Cocaine may trigger migraine headaches, but, most importantly, the headache may be secondary to complications of cocaine use such as strokes, subarachnoid hemorrhage, meningitis, brain abscess, and vasculitis. \n\n2.Seizures: Cocaine-related seizures usually are due to a hyperadrenergic state and usually occur within 90 minutes of drug use but have been delayed for as long as 12 hours. \n\n3.Abnormal movements: A number of abnormal movement disorders have been observed with cocaine use. Patients may present with torticollis, trismus, dystonic reactions, and choreiform movements ("crack dancing"). While most of these are benign, abnormal contractions of the vocal cords and larynx result in laryngospasm, which may be severe enough to cause airway obstruction and suffocation.\n\n4. Nausea and vomiting: Nausea and vomiting commonly are due to stimulation of the vomiting center of the brain and usually are self-limited.\n\n5.Anxiety: Anxiety and restlessness are common manifestations of cocaine toxicity and are due to the sympathomimetic effect of cocaine on the brain.\n\nB.Cardiac\n1.Chest pain: Chest pain is the most frequent cocaine-related complaint and constitutes approximately 40% of cocaine-related emergency department visits. Chest pain following cocaine use may be due to a number of causes, including those directly attributable to the effects of cocaine, such as myocardial infarction and aortic dissection, and causes due to complications of the route of administration. For example, inhalation of cocaine, resulting in pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax, and intravenous injection, resulting in septic emboli, may all present with chest pain and other cardiopulmonary symptoms.\nCocaine-associated myocardial infarction may occur in as many as 31% of patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain following cocaine use. The pain is described as substernal pressurelike discomfort and is associated with shortness of breath and diaphoresis. Patients who are affected usually are young males (aged 19-40 y) who smoke cigarettes and repetitively use cocaine. \n\nC. Respiratory: Shortness of breath, like chest pain, is a frequent complaint bringing patients using cocaine to the emergency department and may be due to a number of cardiopulmonary processes. Cocaine smoking is associated with acute exacerbations of asthma, bronchiolitis obliterans, cardiogenic and noncardiogenic pulmonary edema, interstitial pneumonitis, pulmonary vascular hypertension, pulmonary hemorrhage, thermal injury to the airway, pneumothorax, and significant impairment of the diffusing capacity of the lung. Shortness of breath also may be due to cocaine-induced laryngospasm. Inhalation of cocaine may result in pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax.\n\nD.Gastrointestinal: Abdominal pain following cocaine use should raise suspicion of ischemic bowel; bowel perforation; and, in the smuggler, bowel obstruction. . \n\nE. Skeletal muscle: Cocaine use can lead to rhabdomyolysis, which may or may not be associated with hyperthermia, seizures, or agitation.
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cocaine is made from the leaves of the coca plant - about 10LB of leaves tomake 1Lb of cocaine.\n\nChemicals are used also but nothing terribly elaborate.\n\nSo "man modified" - but simply chewing the leaves "works" - and locals DO chew the leaves - for both recreation purposes and for pain relief