Category: Cocaine Addiction

A bump of cocaine can temporarily boost your mood but even occasional, casual use – can have a gripping effect on your body. Chasing that next high with cocaine, and succumbing to a cocaine addition, can be downright dangerous – affecting everything from your family, relationships, social interactions to your one and only liver. Does […]

You may be wondering if cocaine is addictive. The short answer is yes, and battling an addiction to cocaine is literally a war between the body and the mind. The way cocaine attacks your loved one’s senses, enticing them with promises of euphoria but leaving them feeling bruised and beaten down, is symptomatic of the […]

Nearly half a million people arrive in emergency rooms annually to get help for problems related to their cocaine use. Add to that the fact that more than 160,000 people go to rehab to get help for cocaine addiction each year and you can understand the severity of cocaine addiction in our communities.  Whether snorted, […]

Trying to understand how a substance like cocaine impacts your heart health is best explained through a simple question: Have you ever driven a car at full speed for an extended period of time? It can cause all sorts of diagnostic issues due to the strain and tension it puts on the engine. After all, […]

Struggling with a cocaine addiction can prove particularly debilitating and damaging because of the dichotomy between the concept of cocaine use and the actual reality of using cocaine. To many, the cocaine is thought to encourage exciting social interactions in an almost party-like atmosphere. This misconception seduces people to the doorway of cocaine addiction and […]

If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that strange times abound. From the onset of a pandemic to social distancing measures and stay-at-home orders, the ways in which life has changed and continues to evolve has been seemingly endless. For most, these changes have been difficult at times to process – and that’s okay. […]

Addiction in any form can wreak havoc on relationships. This is caused by how a substance use disorder disrupts your ability to make rational, healthy decisions and drives you toward one compulsive behavior: constantly feeding the addiction. For most people struggling with addiction, this thought may seem foreign because, to them, their addiction is ‘under […]

For most people, feeling down or sad at times is a natural part of life. Some days are better than others, and when the time comes where personal expectations or circumstances are negatively affecting happiness, steps are taken to decrease those feelings of depression and despair. This is when turning to methods such as physical […]

On an unassuming night, your life intersected with cocaine and you decided to give it a try. That first bump proved more intoxicating than anything you’ve ever experienced. That one bump led to many, however, and before you knew it, your life became consumed with the substance. Like stepping into quicksand, you thought you were […]

Cocaine is a substance you never thought would enter your life. But, out of curiosity, peer influence or a natural progression from other drug use, your entanglement with coke began. The first time delivered a new kind of euphoria – one that made you feel alive, awake, cool and powerful. Your first time turned into […]

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIHA), cocaine amounts for more than 6% of admissions to addiction treatment facilities each year, with the majority of those people seeking treatment using the drug by smoking it in crack form. In many cases, people who use cocaine are more likely to be taking more than […]