Cocaine Treatment Program
Ambrosia Treatment Center recognizes the need for an effective treatment program that helps cocaine abusers overcome their unique challenges to recovery.
What Is Cocaine?
Cocaine is a powerful addictive stimulant drug. The powdered, hydrochloride salt form of cocaine can be snorted or dissolved in water and injected, or smoked. Crack is cocaine that has not been neutralized by an acid to make the hydrochloride salt. This form of cocaine comes in a rock crystal that can be heated and its vapors smoked. The term “crack” refers to the crackling sound heard when it is heated.
Health Hazards
Regardless of how cocaine is used or how frequently, a user can experience acute cardiovascular or cerebrovascular emergencies, such as a heart attack, or stroke, which could result in sudden death. Cocaine related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizure followed by respiratory arrest. Physical effects of cocaine use include constricted blood vessels, dilated pupils, increased temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure.
Using cocaine during a binge in which high doses are taken, may lead to increasing irritability, restlessness, and paranoia. This can often result in full-blown paranoid psychosis, in which the user loses touch with reality and experiences auditory hallucinations.
Snorting cocaine can lead to nosebleeds, chronic runny nose, and a deviated septum. Injecting cocaine can cause severe allergic reactions, disturbances in heart rhythms, chest pain, strokes, seizures, headaches, and instant heart attacks.
Added Danger
When addicts mix cocaine and alcohol, they are compounding the danger each drug poses and unknowingly forming a complex chemical experiment within their bodies. Researchers have found that the human liver combines cocaine and alcohol and manufactures a third substance, coca ethylene that intensifies cocaine’s euphoric effects, while potentially increasing the risk of sudden death.
Ambrosia Treatment Center offers interventention and treatment for successful recovery from cocaine addiction. We offer daily, individualized attention to deal with the wreckage of cocaine addiction and build a framework for recovery to take place.
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