Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant drug with an emotionally difficult detox. Cocaine comes in powder form or can be rocked up through a specific cooking method and made into crack cocaine, a purer and more potent drug. Both forms of cocaine are powerful, addictive, and potentially deadly. Cocaine can be snorted, smoked, and injected. When someone uses cocaine it causes euphoria, alertness, loss of appetite, increased heart rate and blood pressure, dilated pupils, increased energy, hyperactivity, and a general sense of over-exaggerated well-being.
Detox is emotionally exhausting and hard on the body. The detox process is both acute and chronic. Acute cocaine detox symptoms involve the process of the drug leaving the body. When any addict goes through detox their brain is on fire and sending signals to the body that it needs to have the drug. One of the biggest problems with cocaine withdrawal is the crashing depression and increased thoughts of suicide. Of all the drugs, cocaine has a notoriously difficult psychological withdrawal. Other detox symptoms are moodiness, sweating, fatigue, anxiety, lethargy, restlessness, bad dreams, and drug cravings.
One danger of cocaine is the detox process. A cocaine addict’s body wants them to avoid the awful withdrawal symptoms. The chronic cocaine withdrawal occurs when the person is substance free, but continues to feel devoid of pleasure and has persistent depression. Because cocaine offers such intense euphoria, it can rob a person’s brain of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is essential to feeling pleasure and finding enjoyment in normal activities. This long term effect of cocaine on the brain can be permanent. A person who is going through cocaine detox should be monitored for their level of depression and thoughts of suicide at a crack addiction treatment center if it is available to them. Although they do not usually experience life threatening complications during detox, the psychological effects should not be under-appreciated.