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Because of the euphoria created by cocaine, a drug hard to leave. In general, cocaine addicts experience the adverse health effects, ruin their economy and they see as failing all your personal relationships, family and friends, before they start looking for ways to learn how to stop using cocaine. As out of the cocaine is not easy, not just detoxification. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that a lifestyle change is needed to complete stop using cocaine and stay off drugs.

Step 1
Be admitted to a treatment center that specializes in treating cocaine addiction. Facilities that provide rehabilitation and medical drug detox addicts provide medication to help ease the withdrawal symptoms start. Medical detoxification is one that is supervised by a health professional. They often include additional psychological treatment offered by trained therapists and usually last about a month.

Step 2
Sign up for counseling sessions to continue treatment to quit cocaine. Individual query is where the therapist and you shall speak of the consequences of drugs and what causes it to fall into drug addiction. Use individual counseling sessions to help you understand the problems that led you to cocaine first. Also to teach you how to change unhealthy thought patterns you might then pass on drugs. Think out of the cocaine and requires effort, the therapist will be a great help. Read the rest of this entry »

When you take cocaine, it happens to run on his blood stream, reaching the brain areas that generate the feeling of pleasure. The areas where cocaine blocks one of the main substances that regulate mood, dopamine is reabsorbed when not in use intersináptico space (space between each neuronal connection).

As this dopamine is not reabsorbed, this excess continues to act and stimulating the neurons, then when the brain is fooled by this excess dopamine artificial signals to decrease their production, not knowing really what happens is another thing, is not to be manufactured much, but that cocaine causes an artificial increase of the neurotransmitter.

So if you stop using cocaine for a period of detoxification, the brain is dopamine-stimulated to develop and takes time to get back to normal, during which symptoms of depression, anxiety, aggression … ie, feelings completely contrary to the pleasant role of dopamine.

In HPsis advisable to carry out a cocaine detoxification under medical supervision, unlike other drug treatment, in some cases only intervene pharmacologically in order to lessen these negative symptoms that promote relapse. That is, if during detoxification treatment the patient is in poor condition, particularly mood, you tend to remember how happy he was under the influence of cocaine (consciously or unconsciously), without realizing the temporary euphoric effect and subsequent depressive symptoms and almost immediate euphoria … lasts a few minutes versus depression that is triggered for several hours or days.

The cocaine habit is an addiction, the medium and long term ends up being a punishment and a burden on the consumer addict and their environment … definitely a curse. Cocaine is like an acid that destroys the addict, their health, their freedom, their economy, their environment, their ability to react and especially their dignity … It is best to stop using cocaine altogether.

If you are a habitual user of cocaine or casual and want to leave it forever, you have to understand that the use of cocaine, albeit sporadic, is a problem, a disease and should try to persistent (rather than constant) to park the habit of consumption.

There are different cocaine detox centers where they will help fight this disease. In our centers we will help you physically and mentally to fight with proven proprietary techniques after 20 years of research. Centers and clinics in cocaine detoxification HPsis the chances of recovery are greater than if you try to solo, but remember that it is also possible without our help, with strength and desire to live better.

If the body have become habituated to cocaine, it will complain if use is discontinued, but the rewards are worth it: a drug-free life … a life of happiness and energy.

Many of the patients treated by a consumer issue or addiction to cocaine and other therapies have previously tested, some have also been admitted to public or private for several months. But why should fall again?

The answer is clear and concise: for to stop using cocaine is necessary not need it. is that cocaine is not left permanently because you learn to lead a formal and stable, smoothly or because you have learned to hold back at times that can “fall into temptation.”

And is that cocaine symbolizes something that is happening in the psyche of the person, often the personality is not fully developed and used this substance as a kind of illegal drug to compensate for those parts of self that are not mature enough at emotional. Other times we are facing on personalities tailored to what is expected of them, but as to meet all these requirements have to suppress many areas of your personality or temperament, needed later find an outlet for the pressure to remove a style life did not quite work. Read the rest of this entry »

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) created a vaccine that has as main function to neutralize the effect of cocaine in mice and are preparing a version suitable for humans. In the laboratory model, the vaccine provided immunity to mice for a period of 13 weeks.

“Our very dramatic results show that we can protect mice from the effects (addictive) of cocaine, and we believe these ranges are very promising in the fight against addiction in humans,” said the director of research, Ronald Crystal.

The vaccine works as follows: create antibodies that neutralize the effects of cocaine that create addiction. This drug has the property to exceed the regular flow of blood and accumulates in the brain that creates a feeling of ecstasy that lasts several minutes. A co-researcher, Kim Jandra, said the vaccine “suppresses the stimulatory effects of cocaine.” He emphasized to clarify that the vaccine blocks the effects of cocaine before it reaches the brain. Read the rest of this entry »

Addictions in general are a widespread problem and that plagues all social groups without distinction of any kind. The struggle against addiction equals a war for the multiple realities that are lived. We should all collaborate on it.

What is cocaine?
Cocaine is a white powder, which is derived from the coca plant, whose plants are grown mostly in South America. It stimulates the nervous system and suppresses hunger, leading to different actions in the body system. · Can snorted, taken orally, smoked or injected. Then there’s the crack cocaine or crystal as free base.

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They know all the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure in children, but there are many scientific studies show that babies whose mothers abused cocaine during pregnancy are often born prematurely and with less weight, height and girth head compared to babies born to mothers who use cocaine.

However, it is difficult to estimate the total impact of the consequences of maternal drug use and determine the specific risk to the fetus. Many factors contribute to the difficulty in determining the direct impact of maternal and child (both before and after birth) of cocaine during the pregnancy, which are typically difficult to measure. Some of these factors are the amount and the total number of mothers who abused drugs (including nicotine) received prenatal care, possible child abuse or neglect, exposure to violence, socioeconomic conditions, nutritional status maternal health problems and the possibility that the mother has been exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.

Many will recall that “crack babies” that is, babies born to mothers who used “crack” during pregnancy, had been declared by many as a lost generation. It portended that generation would suffer serious and irreversible damage, including reduced intelligence and social skills. It was later determined that this was a gross exaggeration. However, the fact that most of these children appear normal should not be interpreted as a sign that there is no reason for alarm.

Using advanced technologies, scientists are discovering that when the fetus is exposed to cocaine during the development period, changes can be small but very important for the future in some of these children, including deficits in some aspects of cognitive performance, information processing and attention to their tasks, which are important skills for the child to achieve their full potential.

The discovery could pave the way for developing new methods for the treatment of addiction.

The scientists used positron emission tomography, or PET, to measure brain metabolism of mice deficient in the dopamine transporter, and their normal siblings. In this technique, the researchers administered glucose (the chief brain fuel) radioactively labeled and used the PET scanner to track its concentration in different brain regions. Mice were examined before and after cocaine administration, and compared the results with those obtained in mice treated with saline instead of drugs.

After cocaine administration, cerebral metabolism was reduced in both groups of mice, but more significantly in normal.

The reduction was observed in many brain regions, probably because cocaine blocks the dopamine transporters. However, we also observed a reduction in metabolism in the thalamus region of the transporter-deficient mice. This effect is possibly due to the effect of cocaine on other neurotransmitter systems, such as serotonin or the norepinephrine.

In summary, the disorders on brain activity caused by cocaine are due, largely, to its action on dopamine, but also, to a lesser extent, its effect on norepinephrine or serotonin.

This finding will allow deeper into the understanding of the mechanism of cocaine addiction.

The effect of inhaled cocaine is a problematic disease in public health. The risks and harms associated with inhaled cocaine effect varies with the intensity of addiction. Furthermore, it is necessary to take into account the personal variables such as degree of motivation, knowledge or experience in the use of cocaine effect of inhaled, and the specific properties of effect of inhaled cocaine as well as the influence of the elements adulterants.

What makes the effect of inhaled cocaine is a harmful addiction is that it turns against oneself and others. At the beginning of effect of inhaled cocaine apparently get some gratification, as a habit. But soon his behavior begins to have negative consequences in your life. Addictive behaviors of cocaine effect of inhaled produce pleasure, relief and other compensation in the short term but cause pain, disaster, desolation and a multitude of problems in the medium term. In the next section you will find information about the effects of inhaled cocaine effect.

What is cocaine?
Cocaine is a strong central nervous system stimulant that interferes with the reabsorption process of dopamine, a chemical messenger associated with pleasure and movement. The buildup of dopamine causes continuous stimulation of neurons “receiving”, which is associated with euphoria. However, the body reacts by producing depressants causing a strong emotional withdrawal (dysphoria) which requires the person to the effect of inhaled cocaine to consume more and more cocaine. Read the rest of this entry »

Cocaine is one of the many drugs that act on the central nervous system. It works as a stimulator, in addition to suppressing sleep, hunger. Cocaine is an alkaloid derived from the coca plant, called Coca Erythroxylon. Their discovery, from the time of isolation of cocaine hydrochloride, and pure cocaine was used as an anesthetic in the mid-nineteenth century. After finding cases of addiction through the use of cocaine, was taken off the market. Likewise, today its still used as an anesthetic for certain surgical procedures in some countries in Europe.

Anyway, there is a legal drug, it is an illicit drug, used in different countries around the world as a recreational drug, from the eighties with greater impact. The coca plant is a common flat in certain areas of South America, including Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and northern Argentina.

The use of the plant, appears from the past and remains to this day. The most commonly used form, since those times, is to chew the leaves. In many cases, was and is used as energizing and support for specific efforts and discomforts of alpine areas. Read the rest of this entry »