{"id":5977,"date":"2014-07-14T16:53:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T20:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2014-07-14T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T20:53:53","slug":"effects-crack-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/effects-crack-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Crack Cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a title=\"Drug addiction professional\" href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Effects of Crack Cocaine-Drug Addiction<\/a><\/h1>\n<figure style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"Cocaine\" src=\"http:\/\/ygoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Effects-of-crack.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crack cocaine addiction, it does not matter how you take it the bottom line is that it is death in waiting. Good news is that you can stop it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is everybody\u2019s wish to be healthy and remain so in their whole life time. This desire is always under attack from all directions by all manner of things. Drug addiction is one of the most dreaded conditions that reverse the live healthy wish. In an attempt to trying to unlocking the this we have chosen to use this link to post informatory addiction articles to educate the public of the dangers involve in life if one associate with drugs. There are so many drugs being abused today however for the purpose of our discussion we will zero into cocaine and revel how it affect the addicted individuals and the general public. Our discussion will be in broken in two segments that is:<\/p>\n<p>i.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Short term effects<\/p>\n<p>ii.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Long term effects<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Addiction treatment expert\" href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Short term effects of crack cocaine<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Crack cocaine will temporarily lift your spirit as an addict but this feeling when the concentration dies off in your blood stream the addict experiences extreme depression and craves for more of the substance.<\/li>\n<li>Individuals addicted to crack cocaine normally skip meals and often don\u2019t have enough sleep.<\/li>\n<li>They also experience high heart rate, muscle spasms, convulsion etc.<\/li>\n<li>This dug can make users feel obsessed, irritated, unfriendly and nervous even when they are not high.<\/li>\n<li>The risks of experiencing heart attack, suffer stroke, seizure or respiratory failure are systematic with crack cocaine users irrespective of quantity used. These can be very fatal killing the individual.<\/li>\n<li>Smoking crack further presents a series of health risks. Crack is often mixed with other substances that create toxic fumes when burned. As crack smoke does not remain potent for long, crack pipes are generally very short. This often causes cracked and blistered lips, known as \u201ccrack lip,\u201d from users having a very hot pipe pressed against their lips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a title=\"Addiction treatment expert\" href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Long term effects of crack cocaine<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Besides the common dangers related to cocaine use, addicts are likely to suffer respiratory complications, alongside coughing, shortness of breath bleeding and lung damage.<\/p>\n<p>Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It causes severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.<\/li>\n<li>Continued daily use causes sleep deprivation and loss of appetite, resulting in malnutrition.<\/li>\n<li>Smoking crack cocaine also can cause aggressive and paranoid behavior.<\/li>\n<li>Since crack cocaine also interferes with the way the brain processes chemicals, one needs large quantities of the drug just to feel \u201cnormal.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Those who become addicted to crack cocaine lose interest in other areas of life.<\/li>\n<li>Crack cocaine causes depression and when this becomes intensified, the addict can do anything to get the supply. They can be very extreme even to the point of committing murder. If for whatever reason the supply is not fourth coming, depression can drive the addict to the wall of suicide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a title=\"Addiction treatment expert\" href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Physical and Mental effects- Short term<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Because it is smoked, the short term effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine as discussed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loss of appetite<\/li>\n<li>Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature<\/li>\n<li>Contracted blood vessels<\/li>\n<li>Increased rate of breathing<\/li>\n<li>Dilated pupils<\/li>\n<li>Disturbed sleep patterns<\/li>\n<li>Nausea<\/li>\n<li>Hyperstimulation<\/li>\n<li>Bizarre, erratic, sometimes violent behavior<\/li>\n<li>Hallucinations, hyperexcitability, irritability<\/li>\n<li>Tactile hallucination that creates the illusion of bugs burrowing under the skin<\/li>\n<li>Intense euphoria<\/li>\n<li>Anxiety and paranoia<\/li>\n<li>Depression<\/li>\n<li>Intense drug craving<\/li>\n<li>Panic and psychosis<\/li>\n<li>Convulsions, seizures and sudden death from high doses (even one time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a title=\"Addiction treatment expert\" href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Physical and mental effects-Long term effects<\/b><\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Permanent damage to blood vessels of ear and brain, high blood pressure, leading to heart attacks, strokes and death<\/li>\n<li>Liver, kidney and lung damage<\/li>\n<li>Severe chest pains<\/li>\n<li>Respiratory failure<\/li>\n<li>Infectious diseases and abscesses if injected<\/li>\n<li>Malnutrition, weight loss<\/li>\n<li>Severe tooth decay<\/li>\n<li>Auditory and tactile hallucinations<\/li>\n<li>Sexual problems, reproductive damage and infertility (for both men and women)<\/li>\n<li>Disorientation, apathy, confused exhaustion<\/li>\n<li>Irritability and mood disturbances<\/li>\n<li>Increased frequency of risky behavior<\/li>\n<li>Delirium or psychosis<\/li>\n<li>Severe depression<\/li>\n<li>Tolerance and addiction (even after just one use)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><a title=\"Addiction treatment expert\" href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Effects on the young Children <\/b><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>It is so painful that very innocent babies in their mother\u2019s wombs become victims of cocaine. When pregnant women uses cocaine in whichever form the mother and the unborn child will all be in danger. This may increase the risk of losing the pregnancy especially in the early stages of the pregnancy. The consequences of cocaine use by pregnant women may result in the unborn baby suffers stroke, heart attack or have permanent brain damage.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Addiction Education\" href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Drug dealers\/supplies<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research has established that most young people in drugs today got into it because of pressure from their friends. They wanted to belong, feeling cool and famous. These pressures from friends are known by the supplies and they will use this as your weak point to lure you into drugs because they are only motivated by their need of making money. You must be careful with the drug dealers because all they care about is money, money and more money. They care less if the drugs ruin your life as long as they get money.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Addiction Education\" href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>The truth you need to know<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To help you be safe you must get to know the facts at fingertip so that you do not fall prey to these heartless drug dealers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must distance yourself from drugs by all means.<\/li>\n<li>Drugs are basically poisons. The quantity taken determines the damage caused.<\/li>\n<li>A small amount acts as a stimulant (speeds you up).<\/li>\n<li>A greater amount acts as a sedative (slows you down).<\/li>\n<li>An even larger amount poisons and can kill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is true of all drugs. Only the quantity needed to achieve the effect differs nonetheless many drugs have other liabilities like: they affect the mind directly distorting the user\u2019s perception of what is happening around them and as a result, the person\u2019s actions may be odd, irrational, inappropriate and even destructive.<\/p>\n<p>Drugs block off all sensations, the desirable ones with the unwanted. So, while providing short-term help in the relief of pain, they also wipe out ability and alertness and muddy one\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Finally all the medicines we use are drugs whose objective is to correct something about the way your body is working with a view of trying to making it work better. These drugs are sometimes necessary but all the same they are still drugs: they act as stimulants or sedatives, and too much can kill you. So if you do not use medicines as they are supposed to be used, they can be as dangerous as illegal drugs. Therefore you must ensure that you are always seeking guidance from the experts to avoid doing wrong things. At AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under Doctor Akoury\u2019s care you will get all the information and guidance you need and you will also be attended to by a team of experts who will focus on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE.<\/p>\n<h1><a title=\"Drug addiction professional\" href=\"http:\/\/ivbar4u.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Effects of Crack Cocaine-Drug Addiction<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" 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