Cocaine Overdose Signs, Symptoms and Effects

cocaine is a stimulant with characteristics very prone to abuse. cocaine users not only habitually use cocaine but also increase their dosage over time in a futile attempt to repeat or exceed the initial ‘high.’ Not being able to do so, engrossed users step up their intake, forgetting that these will ultimately and inevitably lead to social and health-related problems in the future.

Cocaine is a special drug because cocaine’s effect on the human body is unique to it that no substance known to men can mimic its effect on human body. Furthermore, the effect of the drug varies, depending on the human body taking the drug in. Some body reacts to cocaine influx with restlessness and high level of alertness, energy and euphoria followed by depression, hallucination and anxiety. Some people react exactly the opposite way. What’s scary is that while cocaine does have fatal dosage and lethal dosage wherein you can die 100% and 50% of the time, respectively, many of cocaine users suffer cocaine overdose even in very small amount. It is because the effect of cocaine is relatively the same whatever dosage you take. The effects of prolonged and chronic use can manifest themselves even when the user takes small amounts. It’s dangerous, and not even the doctors can tell what amount and what frequency of use will finally drive the nail into the user’s coffin.

Overdoing Cocaine

Personally, there’s no such thing as using cocaine in ‘normal’ dosage. Cocaine is not on anyone’s recommended daily dietary requirement, unless you are speaking to a drug dealer. No matter what way you look at it, cocaine is a deadly drug, and its capacity to kill an individual increases with constant use. Cocaine affects you the way it should do. It attacks all part of your body, but it focuses much of its attack on the body’s nervous, circulatory, respiratory, and digestive system.

Many cocaine-related deaths are related to the effect of the drug on the brain, the heart and the lungs. Oftentimes, the effects are dangerous, if not deadly. Cocaine use immediately increases the user’s blood pressure, breath rate and pulse. It also spikes his energy and emotion and inhibits the need for food and sleep temporarily. It could also cause convulsions, involuntary if not violent bodily reaction to extreme paranoia, comatose, heart failure, seizures, stroke, lung failure, aneurism, brain hemorrhages, and kidney complications. If you know someone who is using cocaine, you should report it immediately to authorities before something bad happens. Because when things go wrong with cocaine, chances are, it will end that way.

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2 comments on “Cocaine Overdose Signs, Symptoms and Effects”

1. Annick Paloma Ríos D. skriver:
   January 26th, 2010 at 10:19 am

   Dear friend, thank youfor your recommendation but it might be useful to know how to distinguish the signs of overdose as they start from the usual signs of cocaine use. This could help prevent deaths.

2. Tony skriver:
   June 22nd, 2010 at 9:16 pm

   Yeah, nice points, but answer thequestion! Too much psycho babble, and fear tactics.

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