Drugs and behavior
Cocaine
This is a stimulant type of a drug, being stimulant drug cocaine is highly addictive. It is crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system and an appetite suppressant, therefore its possession cultivation and distribution are illegal for non-medical and non- government sanctioned purposes in all parts of the world. Cocaine comes in different forms that are as a basic cocaine, salt cocaine, crack cocaine and coca leaf infusions cocaine. Cocaine people ether use the drug through injecting, inhaling or through physical mechanism. Although it is illegal to use cocaine its function and use is widespread. It has been used socially and culturally
Many people who use cocaine believe that cocaine is a drug that makes a person feel good, despite the fact that it is a stimulant cocaine is one of the drugs that ha s a negative effect on people who use it regularly. Cocaine might not be a bad drug because sometimes it is used on health issues especially when it comes to research of the effects of certain drug and there importance on health, there fore cocaine can be judged in a negative manner especially when it has to deal with people who misuse it or take it for granted but it can be described as an important drug when research has to be done.
Cocaine is a very powerful system stimulant and its effect can last from 15-30 minutes to an hour or so, these effects depend upon the method that has been used to ingest the drug. Usually research has shown that the people who take cocaine have an increased sense of alertness, feeling of well-being more than the others, energetic, felling of competence and increases the anxiety of sex. Excessive dosage of these drug may lead to tremors, convulsions and high body temperatures, but these the prolong use of these drug may lead to some health disorders that are complicated for example, with the prolong use of these drug it might lead to hallucinations and itching and also can rise the blood pressure level which might be life threatening to the user and also leading to the outcome of some cardiac problems. Chronic cocaine intake lead to failure of the brain cells that id the brain cells lack to adapt functionally to strong imbalances of transmitter levels in order to compensate extremes therefore causing imbalance of the body. The intake of this drug can cause kidneys to function properly and renal failure. The chronic intranasal cocaine can make the cartridge that separate the nostrils of a human being to degrade there function there fore causing life threatening to the victim. Cook E (1989), Cocaine has also lead to the development of cancer, a high intake of this cocaine has lead to brain cells to fail to function properly hence resulting to cancer cells showing up.
Currently the intake of cocaine is everywhere and a large group of people whoa re addicted are the young or the youth group. Research has shown that people between the ages of 15-35 are the major groups that have an addiction of cocaine world wide.
There is this group that was diagnosed with cocaine addiction after one of there friends died through the usage of these drug, they revealed themselves that they were using cocaine as a group and the fact remains that they got used to the drug up to a point of they could not resist the drug. Once they were interviewed they said that cocaine made them to feel alert and they had a feeling of being well or the time, they regarded the drug as the only thing that they could actually use to release there stressful moments. They said that once a person uses the drug he or she feels more and more to use the drug that means that the person feels addicted. They explained the different methods through which they used the drug and how the substance could make them feel for a couple of minutes. They went ahead and confessed that there is a large number of groups that is using the same drug and mostly the young groups are encouraged by there friends. I tried to look on the effect of the drug on there health and they revealed that once they inhale the drug, some had problems of breathing and also the blood pressure increased abruptly and also they could lose there balance. They said that cocaine had just killed one of there friends because he had an overdose and a prolonged use of the drug which was not controllable at that time. It has been hard for them to stay out of the drug because it is addictive. In this case cocaine has lead negative effect to the people as well it has caused harm to one of there college.
Conclusion
Cocaine dependence can be diagnosed with physical dependence, evidence of tolerance or withdrawal. Cocaine is a drug that is too addictive and once a person uses it, the person craves to use more and more of these drug. Therefore people who prefer using this type of a drug should look upon its effect and search for solution on how to avoid it. Cocaine has been used by many people to cure there physiological stress because research has shown that cocaine people use it to feel more comfortable even if they have stress, there fore such people should be cancelled and taught the different methods of overcoming there stress and avoiding this type of drugs.
Reference:
Cook E (1989), cocaine disposition in humans after intravenous injection, nasal insufflations or smoking.
