My boyfriend admits to being addicted to it. Why would he be addicted? What does the high of cocaine feel like? After abusing the drug for so many years, can you still get high? I know smoking cigarretes does not make me high but I still smoke because it satisfies my craving to smoke, so is cocaine the same way?
2006-12-20 03:22:18 · 9 answers · asked by s9j6j 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Dump him.
He is trouble. Coke-heads are trouble. All of them. Let his mother fix him, it is not the job of a girlfriend.
Find a guy who is clean.
2006-12-20 03:52:24 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The addiction to cocaine is both psychological and physiological. The addiction has caused changes in brain chemistry and in the body. When he is without the drug, he becomes uncomfortable and goes through withdrawal. But, the drug is also psychological because of the way it makes you feel (powerful, energetic, on tope of the world). I had an uncle who shot himself in the head and died because he was high and didn't think he could die. There are drugs that they can give severe addicts which block the receptors in the brain which makes the drug useless. Once they do this, the addict loses interest in the drug. The reason your boyfriend is addicted is because he is dependent on the drug, he can't be comfortable without it. He also keep pursuing the feeling he had when he first got the drug. You can become used to a drug, which is why he will probably use more and more overtime and the danger of ODing becomes greater and greater. Basically, he is screwing with both his physical and mental health. If he admits to using it and being addicted, the next step would be to get into detox and rehab. He'll need inmpatient for that kind of drug. You might try contacting the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) or N.A. (narcotic's anonymous) for suggestions on how to help get him treatment and how to cope with his additction. Anyone who is addicted to that is not a stable person and should get help. It's great that you are with him, but if he doens't want to or refuses to change, you should get out because there is nothign you can do to help him until he decided he wants to help himself, no matter how much you love him or he loves you.
2006-12-20 11:34:36 · answer #2 · answered by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is physically and mentally addicting. Cocaine provides a very powerful 'uppity' high. It doesn't last too long so a frequent user will find that they need more and more to get just as high as they did the very first time they used it.
It's an expensive habit; and a bad addiction. If your boyfriend admits this, I'd look into getting him some sort of help. Cocaine has the ability to hook people in the first snort...just because it leaves you desiring, "Just a little bit more"
It's not a drug to mess with.
2006-12-20 11:34:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chemicals in them are addicting. i dont know about coke cause i've never done it, but with extasy, it makes your body produce more seritonin, which makes you feel good. but once its gone, the levels drop so much that it can make you feel phyically sick, so you need more to just get back to baseline. over time your body stops naturually making it because its been artifically produced and you NEED the chemicals to get that feeling. seritonin makes us feel good/happy so if we dont have it, we are depressed which can even have physical side effects. over time, the more you take of a drug, the more you need of it to produce the inital high you felt, THATS where the addiction gets you (other than chemical dependancy and physical harm it does)
2006-12-20 11:32:05 · answer #4 · answered by mickey g 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
BOTH..cocaine affects your nervous system so is mental it has then it signals the body for cravings. Remember the brain is the antena signal for the body needs.
2006-12-20 11:32:04 · answer #5 · answered by LIZA 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's both. To open a door that already seems to be open for you... he does have to make sure he gets help. Is he smoking crack already? Because once he makes that step, well, then he's really in trouble.
Take care of YOURSELF.
2006-12-20 11:34:36 · answer #6 · answered by suki's mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some what-when i was 18 i did use it for awhile but never really got hooked -but one of my friends did for awhile but then he quit too-I think it's more psychological because of the sublime feeling you get when you do it and yes the longer you do it the more you need to do-just like caffeine...But I think it does have some physical properties that make it addicting because like with cigarettes you have a withdrawal(if you're really addicted )when you quit
2006-12-20 11:29:07 · answer #7 · answered by Art 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Physical. it messes with dopamine reuptake in the brain, fooling it into produces less dopamine (they are not being reabsorbed from the nerve synapse.
Coke fits perfectly in the synapse, and replaces dopamine as the "pleasure drug int he brain". So, no coke, nop dpoamine, withdrawls and depressions from the absense of coke in the system (no seratonin, dopamine in the synapses.
2006-12-20 11:26:20 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It is some of both. It is more physical than say cigarettes or weed because you actually go through withdrawls when getting off of it.
2006-12-20 11:25:17 · answer #9 · answered by On Time 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋