What Are the Long Term Effects of Cocaine?
Question by brockoli6857: What are the long term effects of cocaine?
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‘Cocaine use can lead to medical complications such as cardiovascular effects (disturbances in heart rhythm, heart attacks), respiratory failure, neurological effects (strokes, seizure, and headaches), and gastrointestinal complications such as abdominal pain and nausea. Cocaine use has been linked to heart disease, has been found to trigger ventricular fibrillation (chaotic heart rhythms), can accelerate a user’s heart beat and breathing, and can increase a user’s blood pressure and body temperature. Additional physical symptoms of cocaine use include blurred vision, fever, muscle spasms, convulsions, and coma. In rare instances, sudden death can occur on the first use of cocaine or unexpectedly thereafter. Cocaine-related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizures followed by respiratory arrest.
Other medical complications are related to the method of ingestion. For example, users who snort cocaine may lose their sense of smell, have nose bleeds, have problems swallowing, and have an overall irritation of their nasal septum that leads to a chronic runny nose.
Combined cocaine and alcohol use converts in the body to cocaethylene and causes a longer duration of effects in the brain that is more toxic than each drug used alone. This mixture results in more drug-related deaths than any other combination of drugs.’
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/factsht/cocaine/
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