Origin of Cocaine

In 1855, the German chemist Friedrich first extracted from the coca leaf anesthetic ingredients, and named Erythroxylon. In 1859, the Austrian chemist Newman has refined a higher purity of the material, named cocaine. The compound also known as cocaine base. In medicine, it is used as a local anesthetic or vasoconstrictor, because of its good anesthesia, penetrating power, mainly for surface anesthesia, but toxic, not injection. At the same time can be a strong natural central stimulants, but also because of the excitement of the central nervous system and lead to abuse, in 1985 became one of the world's major drugs, mostly in the Americas and Europe.

Cocaine has a damaging effect on the digestive system, the immune system, the cardiovascular system, and the urogenital system, particularly as a dose-dependent hepatotoxin, which can lead to necrosis of liver cells. A small amount of cocaine can indeed play a role in the elimination of fatigue, improve the role of emotion, the study is because it can block nerve conduction in the human body, resulting in local anesthesia, and by strengthening the body's chemical activity to stimulate the cerebral cortex, nerve. Showing a high mood, active, and even have a tendency to attack.

It is important to stress that drug addicts have a relapse rate of more than 90% after taking drugs. As the nerve mechanism of relapse is not clear, the world has not developed an effective drug or means to prevent relapse.

Cocaine production of raw materials

Cocaine raw materials for the "coca." The coca is a shrub and is a traditional growing crop of the American continent. Cocoa originates are abused by coca leaf and coca paste, while cocaine is abused elsewhere.

The coca leaves chew up bitter and are loved by the local chewers. They believe that coca can make them increase their strength, drive out hunger, reduce pain. Since coca is a high-calorie plant, it contains 127.5 coke (305 calories coke) per 100 grams of coca leaves. Local people called coca leaves as "holy grass" or "green gold." A period of time, about 90% of adult men in Peru are accustomed to chewing coca leaves, to reduce hunger and fatigue.

The benefits and disadvantages of cocaine

Cocaine drug and dosage, music purity, use, messenger psychological and physiological state, the length of use, the use of occasions are all related. The efficacy of cocaine can be very mild and not obvious, and some drug users even think they can control their own, judgment will not be affected.

The efficacy of cocaine is very similar to amphetamine. Although some people think that cocaine is less "drunk" people, the body and head injuries are lighter, but the United States a double experiment shows that long-term use of cocaine can not confirm that they are taking cocaine Or amphetamines. Cocaine users prefer to use continuous medication, usually one or two consecutive taking several times, so that the duration of shorter than amphetamines. Long-term use or use of large those who often feel nervous, sick, unable to relax, irritability, blurred vision, night sweats, tinnitus, cramps, loss of coordination.

Cocaine has an excitatory effect on the central nervous system, is an important reason leading to abuse. Excitement early, abusers have euphoria, feel fluttering for immortal, very comfortable, self-satisfied, talkative. After the excitement of the role, resulting in the elimination of fatigue feeling. This excitement can only be maintained for about 30 minutes. Subsequently, it gives the body inhibitory effect will appear. In order to restore the initial experience of drug addicts, often re-use the second dose, ... ... and even once every 10 minutes to maintain the "addiction" will not decline. Cycle, the more the greater the dose, the use of more and more frequent, the abuser to the abyss of destruction.

A small dose of cocaine causes a slow heart rhythm. Dose increases after the heart rate, shortness of breath, there may be vomiting, tremors, convulsions, convulsions and other phenomena. If a large dose, can lead to death. A 70 mg of pure cocaine, can make the weight of 70 kilograms of people killed on the spot.

After taking a large number of cocaine, some drug users have psychedelic phenomenon, and some are weird behavior, and even violence. After taking one or two days, people who use drugs will feel hungry, tired, irritable, depressed and need to sleep. A single dose of cocaine duration is very short, about fifteen to thirty minutes. Drugs after drug use feel irritable, an hour later this mood will disappear.

Cocaine addicts in the high-dose use of cocaine, paranoid psychosis, paranoid, pseudo-hallucinations. Driven by the delusion of the victim, to all the people as enemies, other people's every move as a threat to their own, they take "pre-emptive strike" the behavior of others, harm others, endangering society. Or feel the body of a certain part of the "worm" to get into the uncomfortable in the surging, and often "to take measures" self-mutilation of the limbs. This is called cocaine poisoning psychosis.

Cocaine once had "champagne of the drug sector," "Rolls Royce drug users" and other metaphor. These nicknames show how popular it is in the general society and the performing arts world. But in fact, all social classes, whether poor people's communities or those who come and go in the senior club of the rich use this drug.

Most people use it on weekends with friends; some use it because they think cocaine helps them perform well; some use cocaine to solve personal problems, such as depression, loss of appetite, and so on. Attempts to use cocaine to solve the problem are easy to become addicts.

Symptoms of poisoning

(1) acute poisoning: including pleasure, intoxication, aggressive, exaggerated, paranoid, delusional and illusion of the victim, out of reality, to determine the obstacles easily lead to the emergence of dangerous behavior.

(2) physical symptoms of rapid pulse beat, pupil enlargement, increased blood pressure, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and breathing difficulties and so on.

(3) take a lot will produce delirium, and even cause paralysis of paralysis and respiratory failure caused by death.

(4) long-term use will be addictive, and lead to personality disorder or delusional psychotic symptoms, if suddenly disabled, may be serious depression and drowsiness.

(5) hallucinations, mostly for the original visual illusion (ie, light, shadow, etc.), but also feel, taste, hearing and other illusions.