The Destructive Effects Of Cocaine

While heroin has the effect of a depressant and marijuana has a psychoactive effect, cocaine is considered to be a stimulant. Cocaine often comes in a form of powder where the user snorts it, this causes it to be absorbed by the nasal tissue. Another way a user can take it is injecting or smoking cocaine which delivers the drug rapidly into the bloodstream and brain, producing a quicker and stronger but shorter-lasting high than snorting. Cocaine interferes with the neurotransmitters in the brains causing them to increase the production level of dopamine, the feel good chemical of the brain. Not only does the cocaine produce more dopamine it also stops the neurotransmitters from reabsorbing and recycling the dopamine. This means that the dopamine begins to build up causing the users high. The pile up of dopamine causes the user to feel an increasing sense of energy and alertness, an extremely elevated mood, and a feeling of supremacy.
Cocaine is such a strong drug that users can become addictive after just one use. The brain receives these heavy dopamine responses which equates to happiness. However the brain quickly adapt needing more cocaine to produce more dopamine, but for the same amount of happiness. Eventually the drug user realis on the drug for happiness as their brain is so confused and needs such a high level of dopamine to feel pleasure. With this in mind it’s easy to see why drug users become addicted, as all humans long to find happiness and this is the only way they can receive it. Other negative effects include permanent damage to blood vessels of heart and brain, liver, kidney and lung damage, severe depression, and many more all the way up to