How does Cocaine affect your body and how does it make you feel?
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You will also remember that the effect that any substance has upon you is partly dependant upon your state of mind at the time you take it.\n\nPsychological dependency\n\nMany drugs are not actually physically addictive. Some are. But by far the majority are psychologically addictive. That is people feel that they cannot cope without them. This includes drugs from all categories - downers, uppers, hallucinogenic and analgesics.\n\nMood swings, changes in personality\n\nDrugs from all categories can seriously affect your mood. Anxiety, panic, depression and paranoia can result from whichever drug you take. Uppers tend to add irritability and aggression to the list, whilst downers can make you agoraphobic and cause loss of short-term memory. Fortunately many of these symptoms pass once you have stopped using the drug for a period of time\n\nMore serious mental conditions\n\nThe Hallucinogenic drugs - LSD, Cannabis and magic mushrooms can trigger much more serious mental conditions. You can suffer from flashbacks and hallucinations for a long time afterwards.\n\nThe stimulant drugs - amphetamines, cocaine, crack, can cause a condition called amphetamine psychosis which is similar to schizophrenia. These conditions are more severe and can be very long-term.\n\nEating Disorders\n\nCan be linked to drug abuse. Perhaps you have tried slimming pills and become addicted; perhaps you feel bad about yourself to the extent that you develop an eating disorder and then have used drugs to try and blot this out.\n\nThese problems can be helped. If you have fallen into the trap of using drugs for whatever reason, don´t hide. Come forward and find help to get your life back on track.
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According to the following website, it depends on the form of cocaine being produced, and looks like some really nasty chemicals are involved (sulfuric acid, kerosene, benzene, ammonia, etc...). Yuck.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine
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Because it can make you feel emotions that you cant feel, but want to. Some people have nothing to feel good about,or they have things that make them feel a little good, but are not experiancing anything that makes them feel very good. Theres nothing that is good that they can get excited about, and they feel that life is not worth living, because they feel bad emotions much more then they feel good. When they take meth, they may feel good and they are excited about feeling good,and they feel more alive. Meth does this by screwing up the chemistry in your brain. If they stop taking meth they go back to a life that is mediocre at best, so they will want to get high on meth again. They continue to take meth and it changes their brain, so that they believe that have to get more meth, no matter what consequences will be suffered. This may sound crazy, but that's the deal an addict makes with meth. he trades his mental health for some good emotions.
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You lose a lot of weight, its like cocaine.
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Seeing a mental health professional for a screening is the best way to find out if you're depressed. My experience with cocain addicts is that they go through mood swings through the process of getting high and coming down. They often will be paranoid and delusional. Saying things like, "there are video cameras in the bush across from my house" or "the cops rented the house next to mine so the can watch what I'm doing", and the like. They also will constantly being blowing and rubbing their nose if the snort it, and you may find small cornors of plastic baggies that have been licked lying around. They also will need lots of cash to keep their habit going and may ask for money constantly. Good luck dealing with them if you know one because it is a horrible drug to be hooked on and not a lot of people can get off it.
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Even though this question's answer will change depending on who is answering, there are specific chemical triggers in your brain cells (neurons) that affect certain areas of your brain that can give you those lovely little butterflies, your brain reacts to this chemical the same way it reacts to drugs like cocaine and e. People can become addicted, and eventually the high wears off.
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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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Yeah,\n\nStop taking cocaine, that stuff will KILL YOU!
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The Short-Term Side Effects of Ecstasy\n\nWhile it is not as addictive as heroin or cocaine, ecstasy can cause other adverse effects including nausea, hallucinations, chills, sweating, increases in body temperature, tremors, involuntary teeth clenching, muscle cramping, and blurred vision. Ecstasy users also report after-effects of anxiety, paranoia, and depression. \n\nShort-term side effects of ecstasy\n\nNausea \nHallucinations \nChills & sweating \nIncreased body temp \nTremors \nMuscle cramping \nBlurred vision \n................these are a few I found off of Google...it is withdrawals, and i think if you type in 'ecstasy withdrawals,.." you will find more..I think you will be fine, and never, never, go there again... Say your prayers love xox
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Scroll down to "Chronic"\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine\n\nHere is another view from www.erowid.org\nLONG-TERM USE:\nHeavy, regular use of cocaine is known to cause restlessness, anxiety, hyperexcitability, paranoia, irritability, insomnia, weight loss, and a variety of other less acute psychological symptoms. Insufflation of any substance can lead to damaging the cartiledge and mucosa in the nose, eventually leading to a hole in the septum (the soft structure separating the nostils). If injected, cocaine use can lead to a wide variety of problems including life-threatening infections, shared needle-related blood diseases, etc.\nhttp://www.erowid.org/chemicals/cocaine/cocaine.shtml\n\nCheck out both sites,\n\nMikeC
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cause it makes you feel good -- you might not feel anything cause you need it and it balances you, but also others take A LOT of it to get "high"
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Short-term cocaine effects include: \n1. Increased blood pressure\n2. Constricted blood vessels\n3. Dilated pupils\n4. Mental alertness\n5. Increased energy\n6. Increased heart rate\n7. Decreased appetite\n8. Increased temperature\n\nOther long-term cocaine effects include: \n1. Addiction\n2. Paranoia\n3. Irritability\n4. Restlessness\n5. Auditory hallucinations\n6. Mood disturbances\n\nwell, those are just the LITTLE effects of cocaine.. if you want a thorought reading on its effects, read this sight below, i find it very useful and brief and straightforward in the effects of cocaine and a lot more..\n\nand since i think God is calling me to type more and give you a lot more information, ill summarize the effects for you.. here it follows..\n\n1. cocaine effects could lead to permamnent damage, addiction and DEATH!\n2. CARDIAC ARREST or SEIZURES and RESPIRATORY FAILURE..!! (oh my, would you like to look so ogly dying because you can no longer breathe?)\n3. when you try using cocaine, the initial effects is that you will have increased energy leading to great productiveness at the beginning and longer endurance, but to attain this, you will have to consume more and more cocaine, your body will urge you to have more that will lead to addiction!!! (would you like your friend to be an addict and if get caught be thrown to jail or a mental ward??)\n4. appetite suppression will lead to a thin figure but this will only urge your body to consume more and more cocaine, and the effest will be none other than aDDICTION again!\n5. when you get addicted to that drug, you will now build a drug tolerance that will yield you to consume much more drugs than you take before, and this follows a great variety of SERIOUS medical condition!\n      *heart disease\n      *heart attacks\n      *respiratory failure\n      *strokes\n      *seizures\n      *gastrointestinal problems\n      *convulsions\n      *nausea\n      *blurred vision\n      *chest pain\n      *fever\n      *muscle spasms\n      *coma.. = DEATH!\n\nif you love your friend like i know you do, please let him/her read this sight. or its better to tell him/her this informations. or rather, seek help, do something wghile you still can. i know you love them, dont you?? \n\n\nhttp://www.friendster.com/profiles/kimpotpot
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emotions come from chemicals in your brain, produced by different stimulants- chemical or environmental.  For example on a chemical stimulant, seratonin makes you feel good and chocolate stimulates seratonin.
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I have been a Heroin addict since i was 14 years old Not to sound like  I am Glamorizing the drug and using it but the feeling it gives is the most amazing feeling one could ever feel . When you shoot it up it just gives you a relaxing feeling through out your whole body from head to toe. It is perhaps the most powerful drug ever. once it's got you, it will not let go because its not like you can do it once and be OK. you see, if you don't get the next hit you become violently ill. You get the hot and cold chills, you vomit, have  diarrhea, your muscles hurt and have spasms. You will loose your home, family, friends, basically you will loose your life. Sounds great doesn't it? So if your planning on doing ANY kind of drug think again none of them are any good.
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When people use cocaine their main desire is have more cocaine. They are looking for that first good feeling they got when they first tried cocaine. They are more concerned with getting that high than eating. If you don't eat then you lose weight.\n\nUsing cocaine and having the urge to get more cocaine will cause you to do crazy things, especially if you don't have money to buy more cocaine. You do things like steel from best friends and family to find a way to get more money. You rob businesses and might even sell your body. Cocaine and the urge to have more cocaine will make you do degrading things. Things that you might never have thought you were capable of.\n\nCOCAINE IS BAD!!! Stay away from it if you never tried it and if you have used it get help before you fall in the gutter. Most users say "oh that will never happen to me". Guess what? It happens to all users when they run out of money!
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As with most other habit-forming drugs, frequent use of cocaine causes the user to focus mainly on the high received from that drug, and other needs take a lower priority (sometimes much lower).  In this case, a cocaine user might be more concerned with the high from the cocaine that he or she uses it to "replace" most of his or her food intake.  Even basic personal hygiene, such as bathing and brushing one's teeth, might be lower on their list of priorities because in their minds: "They gotta have that high!"\n\nAs with other things in life, misinformation can really prove detrimental.  It's sad to see the way some people fall into traps like this, with very minimal chances of getting out.
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If you have a false positive test for cocaine, you might have bigger problems. I looked on a web site, and most of the false positives are caused by serious health problems:\n\nCocaine - Substances or Conditions which can cause false positives\nKidney infection (kidney disease)\nLiver infection (liver disease)\nDiabetes\nAmoxicillin, tonic water\n\nThere are a LOT of web sites out there on this subject. DO web searches for "cocaine false positive" (without the quotation marks) and similar searches for more.