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Cheap Cocaine: It's a 'Social Thing' - "Coke's a social thing, and I always pair it with alcohol," said a 25-year-old Los Angeles woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, to ABC News.More
Brain Disconnect in Cocaine Addiction - Parts of the brain involved in monitoring behaviors and emotions show different levels of activity in cocaine users relative to non-drug usersMore
Cocaine Is Their Nectar - It is hard to love bees, but their tiny brains could hold clues about how humans become addicted to cocaine.More
Teens Lie About Cocaine Abuse - Teens substantially underreport their use of cocaine and other illicit drugs, even when they know a drug test looms, a new study finds.More
Man denies the cocaine found in his buttocks - A man being searched during a traffic stop swore that the bag of cocaine lodged in his buttocks belonged to someone else...More
How Cocaine Corrupts the Brain - Scientists have found how cocaine corrupts the brain and becomes addictive. These findings are the first to connect activation of specific neurons to alterations in cocaine reward.More
Cocaine's Grip on the Blood and the Brain - It is not exactly news that cocaine is bad for the health. But in two new studies released last week, researchers documented still more detrimental effects of the drug, both immediate and long-term.More
Why Cocaine Is So Addictive - Mount Sinai researchers have discovered how cocaine corrupts the brain and becomes addictive...More
Study: Love At First Sight Is Like Doing Cocaine - Falling in love activates chemicals in the brain that create the same feelings of bliss associated with cocaine...More
87-year-old Woman Sentenced for Selling Cocaine - An 87-year-old woman accused earlier this year of selling crack cocaine to an undercover deputy was sentenced today to 18 months in state prison.More
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Cocaine Facts

  • Up to 75% of people who try cocaine will become addicted to it. Only one out of four people who try to quit will be able to without help. Each day 5,000 more people will experiment with cocaine. 1 in 10 workers say they know someone who uses cocaine on the job. Single adults 18 to 25 years old have a higher rate of current cocaine use than those in any other age group; with male users outnumbering female users two to one.
  • Use of cocaine causes blood vessels to constrict, leading to an increase in blood pressure, heart rate and heart attacks are common. Cocaine can lead to irregular heartbeat, lung disease and irreversible brain damage. Users can experience depression, insomnia, paranoia, restlessness, and crying spells. Addicts have had cravings for the drug for a month or more.
  • Users who chose to snort the drug, often develop nasal congestion and damage the mucous membrane of the nose and have bleeding cartilage. While there are fewer serious withdrawal symptoms, users who are denied the drug might get depressed, or experience insomnia. Cocaine users may also become violent.
  • What are some consequences of cocaine use? Because most users sniff cocaine through their noses, there are many nasal and sinus diseases that are coincident to cocaine abuse.  Damage occurs to the mucous membrane on both sides of the cartilage that separates the nostrils.   This results in perforation, crusty holes forming in the cartilage along with drying, nosebleeds and foul secretions. Anxiety, confusion, dizziness, headache, nausea and psychosis are symptomatic with long term cocaine use along with cold sweats, tremors, twitching and paranoia.
  • What Are The Effects of Cocaine? Cocaine’s high involves feelings of euphoria, heightened alertness and decreased desire for sleep and food. Some cocaine users feel hyper when they’re high, and others report feeling more powerful and/or aggressive. However, a great deal of people just feel anxious, angry, confused or hostile when using cocaine.
  • What Happens When Cocaine Is Combined With Other Drugs? Cocaine and other drugs do not mix well. In fact, mixing cocaine with other substances is more likely to make it fatal.
  • What is cocaine? Cocaine is derived from the leaves of the coca bush which grows in South America. Widespread use and cocaine side effects such as addiction led to government efforts against this drug in the early 1900s. The many dangerous cocaine side effects associated with this drug were ignored in the 1970s and early 1980s, and cocaine was proclaimed by many to be safe.