Cocaine Drug Treatment

Q&A- Cocaine Drug Treatment

What else is cocaine called?

We already mentioned “crack” several times which is a form of cocaine that is heated with an alkaloid such as baking soda to allow it to be smoked. Crack cocaine is also known as “rock,” and several rocks are called a “dove.” There are many slang terms for cocaine powder and injecting cocaine and street names change all the time but popular terms include: coke, powder, flake, bump, blow, coca, coke, nose candy, snow, and charlie. The pharmacutical grade of the drug is called cocaine hydrochloride and all have the same effect on the mind and body and the same devastating consequences.

Does treatment depend on the type of cocaine used?

People use cocaine in different forms for a few different reasons. People who inject or smoke cocaine do so for the intense high but it is difficult to do the drug like this in secret. The powder form of cocaine is more popular at parties as people often go into the bathroom to do it and there is little evidence. Cocaine addiction rehabilitation varies little according to the form however. At most group sessions address the triggers that come from pin pricks or the various rituals and paraphernalia that cocaine users have come to associate with the pleasurable high. The purpose is to debunk these triggers that lie to us and make us act on the belief that using cocaine will be of benefit to us.

What is cocaine detox like?

cocaine detox Cocaine detox is the physical elimination of the drug from the mind and body. This process brings about an exaggerated opposite of the effects of cocaine. The brains pleasure system shuts down and intense feelings of misery and regret dominate the emotions. The body may have to deal with scarring and trouble breathing after extended cocaine use.

Cocaine does exit the body within a few days but it is the lasting effect of the psychological addiction that becomes the main battle. The brain is in essence wired to associate cocaine use with pleasure and it is this thought that can turn into an obsession and lead to relapse and using.

Learning how to deal with these thoughts is a major focus of the cocaine addiction treatments at Cocaine Drug Treatment. To learn more about cocaine and addiction and crack and addiction please give us a call right now.