Cocaine Effect – the Buzz to the Crash
Let’s face it, most of us started with a hit of cocaine to get the effect, the buzz. Little did we know the real long term effects on health and lifestyle.
The initial hit sends your brain into an upward spiral. With a sudden boost in blood pressure and a simultaneous restriction of blood vessels, it spikes the blood system. Cocaine also elevates the pleasure producing molecules, dopamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline. These combined fluctuations give the buzz.
With such spikes to the blood system elements, especially the heart and brain cells, there is always a great chance that a stroke or heart attack can occur. Not to mention that this also causes a deterioration of brain cells through lack of oxygen.
When the cocaine dissipates in the system, and the system levels out, the user has lost their balance of normality and the brain feels depraved. This is the dilemma for someone who can not control their desires, the mental battle begins. Often depression sets in after a high because the brain feels deprived of the pleasure elevation that it had felt. In time this will go away, but it is a struggle to fight it until it does.
The user will feel terrible when they are not high, because their dopamine levels have dropped down to normal. The brain has developed a tolerance and does not recognize normal and therefore does not feel right. The brain is calling for a high so it is telling the body that it is lacking, hence it feels low, depression. Because the cocaine works so powerfully on the brain, it makes it one of the hardest addictions to overcome.
When the user feels low and the brain is calling for a high and the user submits to the desire, the roller coaster feeling of addiction becomes a reality. You go up and you come down, you go up and you come down. High then low, then high then low, over and over again. It gets to a point of high then crash, then high then crash.
In the meantime lifestyles and personalities drastically deteriorate. Family and friends are overlooked in the desire for the next high, ever so hopeful that a crash does not happen – but it always does.
