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Cocaine is a powerful stimulant with highly addictive properties that effect the brain directly. Cocaine is usually found in a white, crystalline powder, known as coke, blow, snow and other street names. When purchased on the street you are usually getting a substance that has been diluted with other powders such as cornstarch, talcum powder, sugar or other addictive substances such as amphetamines. Cocaine can be snorted via the nose, smoke or injected. Users who inject the drug have a heightened risk of contracting the disease HIV or Aids.

Cocaine usually effects an individual within minutes of using the drug and can last anywhere from minutes to a few hours. Taking in small amounts, the user will have a feeling of euphoria, energy, alertness, and make the user become very talkative, however the prolonged use of cocaine can lead to a dependence on cocaine to feel any type of happiness at all. The drug temporarily diminishes the users need for sleep or food. While coming down off of the drug, users claim feelings of anxiety, restlessness, irritability and paranoia. Users always need to keep increasing their dose in order to obtain the same high they used to experience when they first began using. The long term effects of cocaine use include, addiction, irritability, mood disturbances, restlessness, paranoia, heart problems, respiratory failure, strokes, headaches, abdominal pain, nausea and auditory hallucinations. Continue reading ‘Cocaine Addiction – Overcoming the Powder’ »

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According to Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, a company conducting research on drugs for the treatment of addiction, “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recognized that cocaine addiction is a ’serious, life-threatening condition for which there is no current drug treatment,’ and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has stated that finding a pharmacological treatment for cocaine addiction is their number one research priority.”

Other researchers view it differently, however. Allan Parry, a drug counsellor in Liverpool, U.K., told New Scientist that such work was “only likely to be relevant to a tiny minority of people. People often give up cocaine because their lifestyle changes or they just grow up.”

Fighting fire with fire–using drugs to treat drug addiction–will likely remain a controversial approach for years to come.

What is the rationale for the use of drugs in the treatment of drug addiction? There are two basic approaches. Scientists look for medications that help patients initiate abstinence, and they look for drugs that help prevent relapse once the patient has achieved abstinence. The categories are not hard and fast. For example, a drug that effective reduces the reinforcing effects of cocaine by reducing the intensity of withdrawal can theoretically perform both functions at once. On the other hand, a drug that blunts the euphoric effects of cocaine–a drug that takes away the best of the buzz, no matter how much cocaine is ingested–can also succeed at the twin tasks of abstinence initiation and relapse prevention. Continue reading ‘Drugs for Cocaine’ »

I was present the first time my two best friends tried cocaine. They encouraged me to participate in their experimentation – I refused – but quietly observed their reactions to the drugs supposed “euphoric” effects. The following weekend, the same scenario presented itself; again, I refused and noticed how eager they were to partake in the drug again. Something about their level of anxiousness was unsettling; almost as if they were being driven to the drug by strange, unseen forces beyond their control. Control? Oh, yes, of course my friends proclaimed that they were in complete control of the drug – they would never become addicted!

With each passing weekend, my friends appeared to be increasingly eager to begin the night earlier and stay out later. I began to notice how much money they were expending to acquire the drugs and the increased level of alcohol consumption that appeared to compliment their cocaine habit – yes – a habit was forming. Of course, I tried to bring my observations to their attention, but my pleas were met with strong resistance. “I am in control!” they proclaimed. It was clear to me (observing from outside their cocaine-hazed weekends), that they were losing control rapidly. Continue reading ‘Cocaine Took My Friends’ »

Tainted cocaine can and will often kill the user. When you buy cocaine, it is cut and depending on the cutting agent, can be life threatening. Just face it, if you are the user, you are the guinea pig for the dealers to experiment with, to determine what will make them the most money.

In the last two years in Alberta and B.C. Canada alone there were 42 reported cases which cocaine was laced with levamisole. Levamisole, is a popular drug used by many farmers and veternarians for the eradication of internal parasites (worms) in animals. The irony here is that this is an expensive drug, and usually the cocaine dealers cut with inexpensive substances. One problem in the drug arena, is the dilemma finding out about problems such as this and documenting them. Many users who get sick, do not end up in the doctors office or the hospital, they do not seek help and usually just die. Continue reading ‘Tainted Cocaine – It Might Just Kill You!’ »

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A drug addiction is strongly desiring to take a drug that makes you feel good. For example, snorting cocaine makes you energetic, alert, euphoric, with increased mental clarity. Once you’re addicted to a drug, abstaining from it becomes a nightmare. For example, abstaining from cocaine can cause agitation, depression, extreme fatigue, anxiety, angry outbursts, lack of motivation, vomiting, shaking, irritability, muscle pain, and disturbed sleep.

Thorndike’s Law of Effect

Simply put, what keeps you addicted is that taking the drug makes you feel good, and avoiding it makes you feel awful. This coincides with Thorndike’s Law of Effect: If a reward follows a particular behavior, that behavior probably will be repeated; if a punishment follows a particular behavior, that behavior probably won’t be repeated.

For example, feeling good is your reward for snorting cocaine; feeling awful is your punishment for avoiding cocaine. So what are you going to do? This is why it’s so difficult to abstain from an addiction.

You have a drug addiction and can’t quit. Now what? Don’t despair; there’s a way out. The trick is seeing your addiction differently – seeing it for what it really is. Continue reading ‘How to Cure Your Drug Addiction Without Entering a Drug Rehab Program’ »

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