Cocaine Effects
Similar to amphetamines, cocaine induces heightened alertness, elation, self-confidence and feelings of overall happiness. These euphoric effects are accompanied by increases in blood pressure and heart rate, but also result in a loss of appetite and insomnia. The high produced...
Cocaine Effects – Cocaine Dysphoria
As with all drugs, after the euphoria from cocaine has passed, the user enters into an inverse stage with strong feelings of unease, fatigue, anxiety and even depression. In order to delay these dysphoric effects, most users will do whatever...
Cocaine Effects – Effects of Prolonged Cocaine Use
One of the most pernicious effects for those who become regular users of cocaine is that increasingly more of the drug is required to experience the high. Chronic cocaine users will crave it and continue using it even though it...
Crack Cocaine Overview
Cocaine’s cheaper smokable version of crack cocaine left an even larger indelible mark on America’s inner cities like no other drug has. Crack cocaine is essentially the heated oil-free-base form of cocaine (which can also be smoked) converted back into...
Crack Cocaine Effects
When smoking pure cocaine in its freebase form, although less common today, or smoking crack cocaine, it takes only 10 seconds for the drug to reach the brain. The high peaks after 5 minutes, but lasts no longer than 15...
Long-term Crack Effects
In addition to all of the immediate and long-term symptoms resulting from using cocaine, crack users can also experience bleeding in the lungs from the bursting of small blood vessels. Crack can cause a chronic cough that can contains phlegm...