November 29th, 2011
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is reporting in April of 2011 that eight-two percent of seized cocaine contains Levamisole. The usual fillers in cocaine are baking soda but it is found that Levamisole is being used by dealers to stretch their stash. It is not clear why they are doing this except the fact that studies in rats suggest the drug acts on the same brain receptors as cocaine. We are thinking they are adding it to enhance or extend the cocaine’s effects. So what else are we finding because of this drug. This cocaine with the drug Levamisole could be the reason in a flurry of flesh-eating disease in New York and Los Angeles. The vets use this drug to deworm cattle and other animals and it can rot the skin off noses, ears and cheeks. What is very alarming is that over 80% of the country’s coke supply contains it. Dr. Noah Craft, a dermatologist with Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute is quoted as saying, “It’s probably quite a big problem and we just don’t know yet how big a problem it really is.” There were case studies done and Craft describes six cocaine users recently plagued by the dark purple patches of dying flesh. These users were from the country’s coastlines but the problem is national. Craft is one of several doctors who come from across the country and they have linked the rotting skin to tainted coke. The wounds on the addict surface days after a hit because of an immune reaction that attacks the blood vessels supplying the skin. Now we all know without blood the skin starves and suffocates.
Even though there is a widespread of this contamination not all the cocaine users are experiencing the flesh rotting reaction. Some may be more vulnerable to the tainted cocaine’s effects. Levamisole can cause rotting skin and it can also prevent the bone marrow from producing infection fighting white blood cells. What a price to pay just for the high you need because you are an addict. Dr. Craft said, “that it is a little bit like having HIV.” Users that have taken in cocaine just recently should get some medical attention. This condition can be fatal. “About 10 percent of those patients will die from severe infections. They may be walking around like a time bomb.”
If you or someone you love has a cocaine problem, make a call to an inpatient drug rehab you can rely on. The phone number is 1-877-340-3602. Cocaine addiction is a serious problem, but you can be helped.
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October 27th, 2011
Some of us have an idea that Cocaine and heroin are being used each day. In fact we probably have friends that are using tonight at their end of week gatherings. Let’s talk turkey, not the bird but the real facts about cocaine and heroin in this country. The Substance Abuse and mental health Services administration did a survey in 1995 on Drug Abuse and this is what they found. That an estimated 533,000 first time users in 1994 represented a 60 percent decline. That is a good figure. The number of frequent users in 1995 was estimated at 582,000 and had not changed noticeably since 1985. That means that first time users was decreasing and addicts of the drug were still doing their thing.
When we talk about heroin we know that there are approximately 600,000 people in his country that are addicted to it. Reports with the help of the Office of National Drug Control in D.C. are stating that there is an increase since the 1980s. Now that snorting and smoking heroin is available and the fact that there is more pure heroin on the market are some of the reasons why it is increasing. The survey concluded while there were older users of heroin who had turned into long term abusers there is a growing number of teenagers and young adults that are now using the drug. Heroin related deaths are on the increase. It is reported that heroin fatalities were up 34 percent in Phoenix, 29 percent in Denver and 25 percents in New Orleans. If you or someone you love needs help from a drug treatment facility. We can help. Contact our hotline at 1-877-340-3602. NARCONON Riverbend retreat is a non-profit drug rehab facility that helps you withdraw and detox from drugs in a safe and natural way. Counselors are there 24/7.
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October 23rd, 2011
Cocaine normally comes in powder form; Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine. It comes in blocks or crystals and it is in different colors from yellow to pale rose or white. Before you smoke crack you heat it. The reason it is called crack is because when you heat it it makes a cracking sound or popping sound.
Crack is the most potent form in which you can get cocaine. Because of that it is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure and it is stronger and more potent than regular cocaine. When you smoke crack it reaches the brain quickly and so you get an intense high. But this high is short lived it only last about 15 minutes. When you smoke crack you can develop an addiction more rapidly than if you snorted it. That is very alarming. You can smoke crack only once and then you can get addicted.
Let’s get the facts and get the real answer which is don’t do the drugs in the first place.
It is very expensive to use cocaine and because of this it has been known as the” rich man’s drug”. Crack on the other hand is sold at a very low price even teen agers can afford to buy it.. at first. The truth is that once they get addicted the expense goes way up so they can support the habit.
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October 16th, 2011
Babies that are born to mothers who are on crack cocaine are the most innocent victims. If a mother uses crack while she is pregnant then her baby will be addicted also. Some mom’s don’t realize this. What’s worse they are so wrapped up in this addiction they don’t even care.
The March of Dimes has put out information that when a pregnant mother uses crack cocaine it can affect the unborn baby in many ways. During the early months of her pregnancy a mother may increase the risk of a miscarriage. Use of this drug during pregnancy may cause the baby to have a stroke, permanent brain damage or a heart attack. Who would want to cause that to their unborn child?
The National Institute for Drug Abuse reported that if a pregnant mother exposes her child to crack cocaine it may lead to significant problems in later years for the child.
“I was introduced to crack cocaine, and that is when everything stopped functioning. I was out with some people who at that time I considered real close friends. You know, it is true what they say about crack: when you take that first hit, that high you will never get again… ““Crack cocaine has ruined my reputation, my self-worth and my self-respect.” Diane
This comes from a young woman who could have children and the effects would b e shared with that child.
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October 9th, 2011
“I retired as a successful corporate executive who had put two daughters through college and had earned my retirement… My retirement party was, however, the beginning of five years of hell. That was when I was introduced to crack cocaine for the first time. Over the next five years, I would lose my home, my wife, all my financial resources, my health and almost my life. I also spent two years in prison” -William
What an eye opening statement. After reading that why would anyone want to take Crack Cocaine. That’s right get educated and as they say, “the truth will set you free.”
Short term effects
In addition to the usual risks that go with cocaine use, crack users may experience severe respiratory problems. You may shortness of breath and start to cough. You may get lung damage and start to bleed.
Long term effects
Severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. If you use crack cocaine you will most like have infectious disease. You will experience sleep deprivation and loss of appetite. Now you are going to get malnutrition. . When you smoke crack cocaine you get aggressive and paranoid behavior. Your family and friends will not want to be around you so much. You will be severe depressed and do almost anything to get this drug. If you can’t get this drug you may even by driven to suicide.
Well all of these effects are very serious. So if you need to get drug free contact our crack cocaine rehab help line at 1-877-340-3602.
Quotes taken from “The Truth about Crack Cocaine” Pamphlet.
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October 2nd, 2011
One of the most powerful illegal drugs is Crack Cocaine. It does produce psychological dependence.
Once you start with it you want it more and more. It stimulates key pleasure centers within the brain and causes extremely heightened euphoria. (A feeling of happiness and bodily well being) Because of this the person develops a compulsive feeling that they have to have crack. The person smoking it has gotten it into their system rapidly. So they experience a high for a short period, they get a tolerance quickly and they want to have more and more because they fail to get that same high. That my friends are why this is so addictive.
One user said: “I had acquired a $2000 per week crack cocaine habit and desperately wanted to be free from the chains.” Jennifer
After an extreme high Crack cocaine gives you the opposite an intense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug. Now you don’t sleep well and you don’t eat. Your heart is beating very fast you may have muscle spasms and convulsions. Now you are feeling angry and paranoid you are not so friendly towards others even when you aren’t high. Now who wants to feel that way? This sounds like it is much worse than the problems you had before you even tried this drug.
You make get a heart attack, stroke, seizure or respiratory failure. Well this doesn’t sound like I want any of this. I don’t think you do either.
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September 25th, 2011
Friends of teens can be very persuasive when it comes to taking drugs. When you ask a teen why they started using drugs in the first placed 55% said their friends pressured them. The teens wanted to be cool and popular. Listen up folks, dealers know this.
Dealers will come up to you and say, “Hey dude, I want to help you.” These drugs will help you fit in” or they may say things like, “I want to bring you up so you can enjoy the day” this can “make you cool”.
Drug dealers will say anything to you because all they care about is making money. They will say anything to get you to buy drugs. Drug dealers will tell you that “cocaine will make you the life of the party”.
You know drug dealers don’t even care if these drugs can ruin your life. In fact, they are happy to see you need it more and more; then they are guaranteed they will make money off of you. If you spoke to guys who sold drugs before they will tell you that they saw their buyers as “pawns in a chess game”.
The most important thing to notice is that drug dealers will not take their own cocaine. They know what it can do to them.
One user said:
“With coke, you are like a moth s tuck on a light. It attracts you more and more and you can’t stop it. It’s not physical. It’s in your head. The more you have it the more you take it. I have injected it myself every 10 minutes. I borrowed money from the bank to buy it. One day I became unemployed. It was worse. I used to shoot up all the time. This thing made me insane. I knew it. But I continued. I became a total failure. Marilyn
Quote from “The Truth about Cocaine” pamphlet produced by the Foundation for a Drug Free World.
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September 18th, 2011
If you were looking for a stimulant of natural origin then Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous. It fact, it goes as far back as three thousand years before the birth of Christ. The Ancient Incas in the Andes chewed coca leaves to get hearts racing and to speed their breathing to counter the effects of living in thin mountain air. It’s been around a long time.
Then we can look at the native Peruvians chewing their coca leaves during their religious ceremonies only. That’s right only during religious ceremonies. Then the Spanish broke that rule when their soldiers invaded Peru in 1532. In the Spanish silver minds the Indian laborers were given coca leaves because it made them easier to control and exploit. So this high has been around for a very long time.
In 1859 cocaine was extracted from coca leaves by a German chemist, Albert Niemann. In 1880 cocaine started to be popularized in the medical community. Austria psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, used the drug himself, was the first to broadly promote cocaine as a tonic to cure depression and sexual impotence. He published an article about Coke in 1884. In this article he pushed the benefits of cocaine calling it a “magical” substance. We can’t call Freud an objective observer because he used it himself, gave to his friends and recommended it for general us.
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September 11th, 2011
Have you ever heard someone say, “Yes, I use drugs but that is my business”. Yes, but let’s look at some innocent people in this story, people that really get hurt because of your drug use. If you have an addict in your family they may have come to you for money so they can support their habit. Those sometimes cause great strain on you and your budget. Then there are those who get into an accident caused by the drug user and you are injured or maybe someone is fatally injured. These are some very sad stories.
The sadiest of them all are the babies that are born to mothers of cocaine users. In the US tens of thousands babies are born to mother who use cocaine each year. There may be some mothers who are not yet addicted and have only tried it once and their babies will have physical problems like premature birth, low birth weight and stunted growth, birth defects and damage to the brain and nervous system.
Now this can happen to a mother and her child if she only had cocaine a few times. Just think of the addict who uses it often. Low birth weight babies are 20 times more like to die in their first month of life. What they have to look forward to increased risk of lifelong disabilities such as mental retardation and brain damage. I don’t know of any mother who would want to cause that to their child. So the grip of cocaine runs deep. It affects society in the long run with these babies being exposed to this drug.
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September 4th, 2011
Short Term Effects of Cocaine
You get a short lived intense high with cocaine then immediately followed by an intense opposite of the high. Intense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug. Then you start to not sleep or eat properly. Your heart rate increases. You get muscle spasm and convulsions. To top that off you get paranoid and angry unfriendly and anxious. Sounds like you are a lot of fun to live with. You get an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, seizure or respiratory failure. That can happen to you even if you only use it a few times.
Long Term Effects of Cocaine
Do you know where the term “dope fiend” originally came from? It was used many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use. As the tolerance to this drug increases then you have to take more and more amounts to get the same high. If you stay on cocaine for a long period you get sleep deprivation and no appetite. You can also become psychotic and begin to experience hallucinations.
Then cocaine interferes with the way the brain processes chemicals, you need to take more and more of the drug so you can feel “normal”. Then you don’t care about other parts of your life. You get very depressed when you come down from the drug and you will do almost anything to get more of the drug. If you can’t get the drug your depression is so deep then you may resort to suicide.
That is good piece of education about cocaine. If you or a loved one needs to get help with cocaine addiction treatment, contact our hotline at 1-877-340-3602.
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