20 July 2008 - 22:27Cocaine. Part 2
Cocaine is an extremely good pain reliever, when it is applied as a topical anesthetic, which makes it an ideal drug to be used for the eye, throat, and tooth or ear pain. It has also even been show to help some people concentrate and perform tasks better. It can and does boost endurance and energy levels as well. But he crowning achievement of cocaine will always be its anesthetic properties. When it was introduced into the medical community and its power was discovered and utilized, this one drug was able to change painful surgical procedures into pain free events. For this one godsend to mankind it will always be remembered.
Cocaine is also able to lull people into feeling as though they have become superhuman. They feel as though they can do anything and often try which ends badly. The use of cocaine will produce extremely intense highs of only 10 to 60 minutes and these are followed by equally intense lows and the lows usually last longer than the highs. This is an amazingly addictive drug and a user will begin to require more and more of it in order to attain a high and the duration of the highs generally become shorter. This drives the user to use even more of the cocaine in an increasingly desperate attempt to attain a better and stronger high. It is a vicious circle that is almost impossible to break. Cocaine use is accompanied by dangerously sharp spikes in both blood pressure and heart rate and this has led to heart attacks and death in many otherwise healthy young adults. People become caught in the “cocaine squeeze” and they lose track of things like life, family and eating, they can only think of the drug. The behavior of someone who takes cocaine can never be predicted. It is quite common for the most docile of people to explode suddenly and become unbelievably strong and violent.
Cocaine is snorted into the nose, rubbed on the gums or injected into veins and each of these has a devastating, cumulative effect on the body. There are people today who have little septum left in their noses as a result of their cocaine habits. Others suffer from chronic nosebleeds, poor dentition, bleeding gums and scars on their arms.
Cocaine is indeed a powerful and explosive drug and perhaps it possesses even more uses than we now know, and it is capable of doing great good in controlled settings. However, this substance is rather like Pandora’s Box. Few, if any, can resist the temptation to take one peek. And just as Pandora discovered, once the box is opened- the contents are freed upon the unsuspecting world. Sometimes a box should remain closed. This is one of those times.
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