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My best friend is 100% addicted to cocaine and I cant get him to stop. What do I do now? He disagrees with everything I say and sometimes ignores me completely when I bring it up. Please help him!!

Hi Jolly. Just a word of advice. Maybe you could show him some pictures of people who have become addicted to drugs. It is known that long-time cocaine drug users have contracted many illnesses to their body. There are a lot of those pictures in the internet. Maybe your friend will be enlightened once he sees the pictures.

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If a person is an addict, a doctor can use bupropion or imipramine for the cocaine-induced cravings. To prevent future highs, a person would be put on dopamine antagonists like buspirone or gepirone. If a person honestly wants to get off and is willing to cooperate, health professionals are more than willing to help.

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In the history of the world there is perhaps only one society that did not use recreational drugs. That was the Eskimos, and the reason was that there was no way to produce drugs in their environment. As soon as the outside world introduced alcohol, they had a drug problem just like everyone else.

There are any number of guesses why people use drugs. One of the best is that it is simply inborn into us. People like to change their mood through any number of means, including drugs. Why? Because (for them, at least) it is "fun".

The bottom line is that they aren't going to stop using drugs. Think it over while you enjoy your coffee in the morning, your tea at lunch, and a glass of beer in the evening.

The reason cocaine is banned has nothing to do with good sense. Caffeine was almost outlawed at the same time for the same reasons -- it was believed that caffeine made people crazy. You can read an excellent history of the subject at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm That is the one book to read if you only read one on this subject.

2006-11-30 18:39:24 by LUIS M

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my friend started doing coke July 2008, since then she's done it about 10 times, So it really hasn't become too big of a problem... YET. the only advice I can find is people saying let her hit rock bottom and stuff like that. shes only 16 and shes only been doing it for a few months and I don't want to see her go through that. Is there something I can do before she gets too bad and really has a bad addiction?

she says she doesn't have a problem and can stop whenever she wants. she gets mad whenever I tell her to stop. me and my friend really want her to. she's not in denial.. she relizes its affecting her relationships ( lost a friend), and she knows how bad it is. what can i tell her? and what should I do??

also her parents found some coke in her room and now she goes to meetings for coke addicts, but she said she didn't feel like she belonged there and it didn't help whatso ever(everyone was in there 30's+ and totally brain dead)

ALSO ( don't beat me up about this:( .. but we're kinda stoner buddies. does she have to quit weed to quit coke? because I would be willing to stop smoking weed(with her) completely.

how do I stop my friend before she gets a cocaine addiction?!?


thanks guys!

Yeah, the weed has to stop as well. There are not only chemicals in the pot but the toxins are ten times that of cigaretts.

Cocaine is a sneaky lady....be wary. If she thinks the people in that meeting were brain dead, remind her that they were like her once. There but for the grace of God go you or I.

When coke is turned into hydrochloride it is often 'washed' with gasoline. I could go on forever. While realizing that it is a treat for the brain at early stages, it soon begins eating away at it, not disimilar from sniffing glue. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Check with the powers that be at UCLA if you don't believe me.

You are a compassionate person to want to help your friend, but you must start by cleaning up. Then, tell her parents, let them read what you wrote here, they can say they found it by accident but it really does not matter. She must stop immediately. Even if she were arrested I would not look at it as a bad thing, I would call it RESCUED. She will thank you years from now, I'm sure.

Go all the way with it kid, don't half-step...do what you have to!
ONE STAR for your benevolence 8 )

Be strong, Mean Mike.

2008-10-20 19:59:54 by Ashlee K

I guess I grew up fairly sheltered because I know close to nothing about drug addiction. I know that drugs are bad and that they almost always destroy your life in one way or another if you don’t stop and get the right help. What I want to know are the signs and ways to tell if someone has done or is high on cocaine. Someone I really care about told me they do it. And that they want to stop. And that they do it cause they like it but almost immediately after doing it they feel horrible – depressed. Said they feel like they have no self-control over it.

When someone has been using cocaine, there are going to be many different side effects. Cocaine interferes with the transmitters in the brain that regulate dopamine, and when this happens, a high occurs.

The high that a person gets from using is very alluring cocaine, because it has been described as the best feeling that people have ever felt while using a drug, or ever. Because the high is so intense, users will often do anything they can to feel that way again.

The cocaine, however, also causes the brain to prohibit the good feelings that will occur naturally, and so therefore cocaine users will enter a cycle in which the cocaine causes them to feel a high, and the absence of cocaine causes them to feel very low, and therefore need to fight in order to find something which will feel as good. Most often they turn back to cocaine, and the cycle begins again. Unless the addict seeks help, and gets drug addiction treatment.

Cocaine effects are extremely detrimental on the body and the consequences related to cocaine effects can eventually lead to permanent damage, addiction and death. While each person who uses this drug reacts to it differently, there are two distinct categories of cocaine effects: short-term effects and long-term effects. Even if a person has only used cocaine once, he/she can experience short-term cocaine effects. Long-term cocaine effects appear after increased periods of use and are dependent upon the duration of time and amount of cocaine that has been consumed.

Short-term cocaine effects are noticeable immediately and although they are not always damaging, in some cases they have caused serious bodily damage and death. Deaths related to cocaine effects are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizures and respiratory failure. * Some of the short-term cocaine effects first time users experience includes increased energy, decreased appetite, and increased heart rate and blood pressure.

Short-term cocaine effects include:
Increased blood pressure
Constricted blood vessels
Dilated pupils
Mental alertness
Increased energy
Increased heart rate
Decreased appetite
Increased temperature

People who try cocaine often get hooked to the short-term cocaine effects, namely feeling as though they have increased energy. The quick high keeps users feeling energetic and able to endure longer in physical activities. New cocaine users often try cocaine to increase productivity at work and in other areas of their lives so that they can work longer and harder. While these results may seem promising in the beginning, increased tolerance and dangerous life choices often follow repeated cocaine use.

One cocaine effect, appetite suppression, is very popular for people looking to lose weight or maintain a low weight. Fashion models have been known to use cocaine in order to stay thin. Cocaine users often go days without eating and if this behavior is continued it can lead to addiction. Increased heart rate, blood pressure, constricted blood vessels, dilated pupils, and increased temperature are all short-term physiological cocaine effects. When taken in large quantities, cocaine will intensify the user's high and may cause violent and erratic behavior on the part of the user.

Long-tem cocaine effects are noticeable as cocaine abuse continues and tolerance builds. Since cocaine is a highly addictive drug, it can lead to major medical complications and health problems. Some of the these complications include heart disease, heart attacks, respiratory failure, strokes, seizures, and gastrointestinal problems. Other physical symptoms include convulsions, nausea, blurred vision, chest pain, fever, muscle spasms, and coma.

As the habit of using cocaine becomes increasingly important, behavior such as lying, heating, stealing, absenteeism at work and denying the use of cocaine, is an evident side effect. While these behaviors are not directly related to the use of cocaine, these cocaine effects are often present due to the lifestyle of the addict.

Other long-term cocaine effects include:

Addiction
Paranoia
Irritability
Restlessness
Auditory hallucinations
Mood disturbances

With continued use, many cocaine addicts develop a higher tolerance for the drug over time. Addicts are also said to "chase the high"; meaning they continue to use cocaine seeking the feeling they felt the first time they used it. For people addicted to cocaine and cocaine effects, this high will never again be felt in the same way, and this addiction can lead to insanity and death.

2007-07-26 08:14:03 by Alice in Wonderland