Quit Cocaine!
The use of cocaine can affect you and your family
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Cocaine is a dangerous, expensive drug that users take to get high. It can either be snorted in a powder form or smoked in its solid form. Cocaine has powerful negative effects on the heart, brain, and emotions. Once taken, cocaine enters the bloodstream and travels to the brain. Cocaine interferes with the neurotransmitters that nerves use to communicate with each other and blocks norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine from being absorbed. This causes a person to feel high. Cocaine is a central nervous system stimulant that raises the heart rate and gives the user a sense of a high. This is followed by a desire to use more of the drug to get high again. Cocaine use can lead to stoke, heart attack and seizures, and overdose is a real risk. ocaine users become addicted and have long-term and life threatening consequences. Cocaine increases heart rate and blood pressure and constricts the arteries supplying blood to the heart. The result can be a heart attack. After using cocaine for a while over a long period of time, it becomes addictive. The symptoms for withdrawal from cocaine are depression and anxiety, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, inability to feel pleasure, increased craving for cocaine, and physical symptoms including aches, pains, tremors, and chills.
Facts About Cocaine
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> About 14% of U.S. adults have tried cocaine
> One in 40 adults has used it in the past year
> Young men aged 18 to 25 are the biggest cocaine users
> 8% of men in this range have used in the previous 12 months
> Cocaine is responsible for more US emergency room visits than any other illegal drug
> One in 40 adults has used it in the past year
> Young men aged 18 to 25 are the biggest cocaine users
> 8% of men in this range have used in the previous 12 months
> Cocaine is responsible for more US emergency room visits than any other illegal drug