Cocaine addition physical

In addition, other drugs that do not act as primary hallucinogens, such as methylene-dioxyamphetamine derivatives (e.g., 3,4-dimethylene-dioxymethamphetamine, Ecstasy ) and cocaine pose a health risk. The acute intoxication is associated with a misperception of reality, a period of exhaustion follows. After prolonged use, dependence develops associated with intellectual degradation and physical decay. Withdrawal therapy is very dif cult. Marihuana frequently serves as an entry-level recreational substance for hard drugs. 

So the paranoid psychosis produced by cocaine and amphetamine overdose is properh called stimulant psychosis. By the late 1960s, the word was out on the street— Speed kills What was referred to in this slogan was not just death by overdose. Amphetamine overdose deaths did occur, but they were relatively rare. Far more common was the development of a paranoid state that often led to acts of violence. In addition, after a long binge of amphetamine abuse, the user may crash (sleep for an extended period) and then awaken deeply depressed. The depression could last for days and is now recognized as a common withdrawal symptom after hca%7 use of either amphetamine or cocaine. The depression often leads the user back to drugs to try to get up again, and the cycle is repeated. Eventually the user s physical and mental health deteriorates badly unless he or she can break out of the cycle. 

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