I Need to Know Everything I Can About Cocaine Addiction. Such As?

Question by gouda1988: I need to know everything I can about Cocaine addiction. Such as?
How does it feel? Why keep doing it, behaviors before, during, after? Why hurt the people you love? What would you do to get a hit? Is that the most important thing in your life? Do you put it first? How can someone help you quit?
Just so everyone knows, I have searched far and wide for answers on the net. I want personal experiences.
BYW, it is not me doing it, but it is someone I love deeply.
I meant btw.

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Answer by Old Man
“Cocaine produces its pleasurable high by interfering with the brains pleasure centers where such chemicals as dopamine are produced. The drug traps an excess amount of dopamine in the brain, causing an elevated sense of well being. Cocaine acts as a stimulant to the body. In turn, the drug cause blood vessels to restrict, increases the bodys temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure, and cause the pupils to dilate. Cocaine also increases ones breathing rate. Cocaine causes such pleasurable effects as reduced fatigue, increased mental clarity, and a rush of energy. However, the more one takes cocaine, the less one feels its pleasurable effects, which causes the addict to take higher and higher doses of cocaine in an attempt to recapture the intensity of that initial high. In any case, a cocaine high does not last very long. The average high a user gets from snorting cocaine only lasts for 15-30 minutes. These highs are less intense, as it takes longer for the drug to be absorbed into the bloodstream when snorted. A smoking high, although more intense due to the rapidity in which the drug is absorbed into the bloodstream, lasts for an even shorter period of only about five to ten minutes . After the euphoric high comes the crashing low, in which the addict craves more of the drug and in larger doses.”

My advice is to not experiment with this drug– even once!

Answer by Ash
do a search on google about cocaine…it should lead you to websites about everything you are going to need!!

sorry! i didnt know you had already searched the net….i dont personally do coke, but my cousin does…she told me that it helped her loose a TON of weight, she is skinner now than ever before, and she said it helped her feel better about herself when she was high. it is highly addicitive, and she hasnt been able to quit on her own….now that she knows whats its like, she will take it whenever its available….its not something I personally would ever experiment with.

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