What are the physical consequences of occasional cocaine use?

Question

There's no need to point fingers here, i have a few close friends that may do it once or twice a year.

Answer 1

Once or twice a year? Probably nothing serious.

Answer 2

Bloody nose, crusty nose. Abnormal sleeping patterns. And even occasional use of cocaine can tear inside of the nose, creating literally a "HOLE" which has long term results and may even require surgery. Cocaine is also really hard on your teeth enamal, not to mention what it does to your insides, creating a ulcer like feeling. I would be careful, even occasional use could hurt you because you never know what it is cut with.

Answer 3

More frequent cocaine abuse. Lack of sleep, concentration, and down right expensive. But hey who cares that snorting kills brain cells, causes heart attacks, makes you loose your senses and can kill you. These are a few consequences of occasional cocaine use physically.

You don't know what your body is going to do in respects to drugs. How it will react to narcotics, it might be fine today but one snort in the future on occasions and it could be all over or worse you could be brain damaged for life... YOUR LIFE ... then you are a burden on your family or society.

But go ahead, snort or shoot it. You only do it on occasions right... and drug attics only start being drug attics after only occasional use.

Right... on occasions.

Answer 4

Cocaine use ranges from occasional use to repeated or compulsive use, with a variety of patterns between these extremes. Other than medical uses, there is no safe way to use cocaine. Any route of administration can lead to absorption of toxic amounts of cocaine, leading to acute cardiovascular or cerebrovascular emergencies that could result in sudden death. Repeated cocaine use by any route of administration can produce addiction and other adverse health consequences.

As cocaine abuse continues, tolerance often develops. This means that higher doses and more frequent use of cocaine are required for the brain to register the same level of pleasure experienced during initial use. Recent studies have shown that, during periods of abstinence from cocaine use, the memory of the euphoria associated with cocaine use, or mere exposure to cues associated with drug use, can trigger tremendous craving and relapse to drug use, even after long periods of abstinence.

There can be severe medical complications associated with cocaine use. Some of the most frequent complications are cardiovascular effects, including disturbances in heart rhythm and heart attacks; respiratory effects such as chest pain and respiratory failure; neurological effects, including strokes, seizures, and headaches; and gastrointestinal complications, including abdominal pain and nausea.

Cocaine use has been linked to many types of heart disease. Cocaine has been found to trigger chaotic heart rhythms, called ventricular fibrillation; accelerate heartbeat and breathing; and increase blood pressure and body temperature. Physical symptoms may include chest pain, nausea, blurred vision, fever, muscle spasms, convulsions, coma, and death.

Different routes of cocaine administration can produce different adverse effects. Regularly snorting cocaine, for example, can lead to loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, problems with swallowing, hoarseness, and an overall irritation of the nasal septum, which can lead to a chronically inflamed, runny nose. Ingested cocaine can cause severe bowel gangrene, due
to reduced blood flow. And, persons who inject cocaine have puncture marks and “tracks,” most commonly in their forearms. Intravenous cocaine users may also experience an allergic reaction, either to the drug, or to some additive in street cocaine, which can result, in severe cases, in death. Because cocaine has a tendency to decrease food intake, many chronic cocaine users lose their appetites and can experience significant weight loss and malnourishment.

Research has revealed a potentially dangerous interaction between cocaine and alcohol. Taken in combination, the two drugs are converted by the body to cocaethylene. Cocaethylene has a longer duration of action in the brain and is more toxic than either drug alone. While more research needs to be done, it is noteworthy that the mixture of cocaine and alcohol is the most common two-drug combination that results in drug-related death.

Answer 5

Why not quit---then the point would be moot

Answer 6

you could die.