Types of Substances and Their Treatments

Information on Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine is used as an anesthetic in the field of medicine and also has been in the use for recreational reasons

Effective Solutions for Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine is colorless or we can say a white crystalline alkaloid, which is extracted from coca leaves. It is sometimes used in medicines as an anesthetic. But people use it for addiction. So cocaine addiction is defined as the excess usage of the white powder called as cocaine.

The major routes of taking cocaine is injecting in ones body, smoking and snorting. Snorting is actually inhaling the powder through the nose which is from the nose is absorbed in the bloodstream through the nasal tissue. Injecting is by injecting the liquid form in the blood through the needle and through smoking the vapors of the cocaine is inhaled in lungs.

Effects and symptoms of cocaine

The use of cocaine leads to permanent damage, addiction and death of the abuser. The effects are of two types i.e. the short term effect and the long term effect. If cocaine used once or twice the person have to face its short term effects shot term effects mainly damages the body like high blood pressure, dilated pupils, increased energy, increased heart rate etc or may cause death by cardiac arrest.

In long terms effect the death is sure. As it leads to major complications like heart attacks, respiratory failures, strokes etc the physical symptoms of cocaine addiction is convulsions, nausea, blurred vision, chest pain, fever and coma.

The other long term cocaine effects include addiction, irritability, restlessness, auditory hallucination, mood disturbances etc. After some time the tolerance for cocaine is developed in the body of addict and every time he increase the dose of drug to feel the same excitement as he felt first time but it never happens and this high dosage leads to addiction than death.

Suggestions and Treatments

The family members or the friends of the drug addict have to come in front to help him and encourage him to leave this poison.
-Consult a professional physician who helps him out in leaving the drug by detoxification.
-Admit him in any good recovery house.
-Seek help of a therapist who with the use of lots of therapies help the patient to leave the drug.
-Admit him in a hospital where inpatient and out patient treatment of the patient is carried out.
-Admit him in drug free rehab center.
-Use cognitive behavior therapy or motivational therapy on patient with help of a counselor.

Risks and Precautions

The main risk involved is the relapse i.e. during the time of recovery the patient goes back to the habit again. So a better aftercare program has the capacity to stop the patient. The relapses occur because of the recovery pain. The patient has to manage high dosages of medicines and pain in stomach, vomiting etc. So the patient wants to go back to the initial stage.