Cocaine Addiction Centres

Drug Rehab Centers Services will assist you in finding help for cocaine addiction, rehabilitation and also cocaine detox. Our services will also give you a better understanding of the different type of cocaine treatment centers available and help you choose the best cocaine rehab according to your needs.

Drug Rehab Center 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 substitute. Thus, Drug Rehab Centers Services will refer you to cocaine rehab centers throughout Illinois that don't use drugs in any shape or form.

Drug: Cocaine

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

Cocaine Description: Cocaine is a remarkably addictive stimulant that directly affects the brain. Cocaine has been labeled the drug of the 1980s and '90s, because of its widespread 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 largely 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 can be smoked.

Cocaine is normally 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

-Angry

-Outbursts

-Lack of motivation

-Nausea/vomiting

-Shaking

-Irritability

-Muscle pain

-Disturbed sleep

Overdose
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 Statistics in South Africa

In South Africa (for example) there are up to 500,000 cocaine users in the country and one-third of it are teenagers whom experiment with drugs, according to the South African Institute of International Affairs. Statistics show that cocaine is the main drug on the illicit traffic market in several African countries. South Africa and Nigeria appear to be in a class of their own. Their drug problem is critical.