Cocaine Addiction treatment

Drug Rehab Service will assist you in finding help for cocaine addiction, rehabilitation and also cocaine detox. We will also give you a better understanding of the different types of cocaine treatment centers available and help you choose the best cocaine rehab according to yours or your loved one’s needs.

Drug Rehab Service's main objective is to refer you to the best cocaine rehab treatment. We want the person with a cocaine addiction to achieve a drug free life without using any substitutes. Thus, we will refer you to cocaine rehab centers throughout the provinces and the states that do not use drugs in any shape or form for “treating” the addiction.

Cocaine information

Drug: Cocaine

Cocaine Street name: "coke," "C," "snow," "flake," or "blow."

Cocaine Description: Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant that directly affects the brain. Cocaine has been labeled the drug of the 1980s and '90s, because of its extensive popularity and use during this period. However, cocaine is not a new drug. In fact, it is one of the oldest known drugs. The pure chemical, cocaine hydrochloride, has been an abused substance for more than 100 years and coca leaves, the source of cocaine, have been ingested for thousands of years.

Pure cocaine was first extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush, which grows primarily in Peru and Bolivia, in the mid-19th century. In the early 1900s, it became the main stimulant drug used in most of the tonics/elixirs that were developed to treat a wide variety of illnesses. Today, cocaine is a Schedule II drug, meaning that it has high potential for abuse.

There are basically two chemical forms of cocaine: the hydrochloride salt and the "freebase." The hydrochloride salt, or powdered form of cocaine, dissolves in water and, when abused, can be taken intravenously (by vein) or intra nasally (in the nose). Freebase refers to a compound that has not been neutralized by an acid to make the hydrochloride salt. The freebase form of cocaine is smoked.

Cocaine is generally sold on the street as a fine, white, crystalline powder. Street dealers generally dilute it with such inert substances as cornstarch, talcum powder, and/or sugar, or with such active drugs as procaine (a chemically-related local anesthetic) or with such other stimulants as amphetamines.

Cocaine Street Use: snorted, smoked, intravenous injection

Cocaine Dependency: High risk

Cocaine Withdrawal Symptoms:

Cocaine withdrawal symptoms include but are not limited to:
-agitation
-depression
-intense craving for the drug
-extreme fatigue
-anxiety
-anger
-outbursts
-lack of motivation
-nausea/vomiting
-shaking
-irritability
-muscle pain
-disturbed sleep

Fast Facts

As opposed to earlier beliefs, elevated dose use of cocaine can be detected as long as 10 to 22 days after last use.

Almost half of all drug related emergency room visits are related to cocaine abuse.

The annual amount of new cocaine users has generally risen over time. In 1975 there were 30,000 new users. The amount rose from 300,000 in 1986 to 361,000 in 2000.

Percentage of cocaine use by college students during the previous 5 years has varied between 2.0% of all students in 1994 to 4.8% in 2000.
Of high school seniors in 2001, 8.2% admitted having ever tried cocaine.

From 1997 to 2000, cocaine was the most frequent substance reported in emergency room episodes.

Cocaine use among men is nearly twice then women. Based upon additional information sources, the office of National Drug Control Policy estimates the amount of chronic cocaine users at 3.6 million.

Adults between 18 and 25 years of age currently have the highest rate of cocaine use than any other age group.

90% of cocaine users smoked, drank, or used cannabis prior to trying cocaine.

In 1988, almost 300,000 kids were born addicted to cocaine.

Overdose Risk: The dosage and method of use that can cause cocaine overdose differs from individual to individual. The effects of overdose are extremely intense and, usually, short in nature. Even though uncommon, fatalities have been recorded from cocaine overdose due to: seizures, heart attack, brain hemorrhage, kidney failure, stroke and repeated convulsions.

Cocaine Legal Status: Cocaine is an illegal drug. It can be administered by a doctor for legitimate medical uses, such as a local anesthetic for some eye, ear, and throat surgeries.