True Stories About the Effects of Cocaine Addiction

I have an uncle who is addicted to cocaine, but has no desire so seek help. We have tried to help him, but he thinks his whole family hates him and is just out to get him. He has never been arrested for it, but if he did, how many times would he have to actually go to jail before the system sees fit to order him into rehab? Will they do it after the first offense? I don’t think he sells, I just think he is buying it for himself.

He lives at my grandma’s and has the blinders pulled over her eyes. She doesn’t see the problem, but in two years he cannot get a job. He keeps lying and making up excuses about why he can’t get work. He is sucking my grandma dry of all finances and she is even pawning everything she owns jUSt to give him money so he can “go find another job.”

Please help!!! Has anyone ever been through this and how can we help him?????
No one in our family is able to pay for him to go into rehab, that is why I want to know how the courts can help us out.

i was just curious because my brother was talking about his friend having to go to rehab to get off cocaine or something..but i don’t get how? like, how do they avoid the withdrawl and stuff? do they give them small doses of it each day or something until there completely off it or what?

thanks!

I have a friend who passed away of a cocaien intoxication this past September, and would always try to get him to go to rehab last year, but he refused. I would scream at him, and tell him he was goin to kill himself, and unfortunately it did. I was crushed and I was wondering, does he know that he messed up, and is it possible that his soul would remember me telling him that?

This was an interesting debate at work today…please don’t yell at me I tried to present the question, not pick a side.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/BothSidesAllSides/story?id=2773754&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312+(cocaine)

Great Answers, good to see nobody took it personally!

What are the effects of cocaine use?

http://observer.case.edu/Archives/Volume_37/Issue_15/Story_44/

No offence to anybody or any country !

Only decent answers please !

People will consume the drug anyway……illegal or not. The question is: Would it be better policy to REGULATE the sale of this substance (and others) OR continue to criminalize and risk tainted products reaching the streets in large quantities.

This same scenario arises when marijuana is laced with something much stronger (cocaine etc.).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090831/ap_on_re_us/us_drug_war_tainted_cocaine

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Nearly a third of all cocaine seized in the United States is laced with a dangerous veterinary medicine — a livestock de-worming drug that might enhance cocaine’s effects but has been blamed in at least three deaths and scores of serious illnesses.

The medication called levamisole has killed at least three people in the U.S. and Canada and sickened more than 100 others. It can be used in humans to treat colorectal cancer, but it severely weakens the body’s immune system, leaving patients vulnerable to fatal infections.

Scientific studies suggest levamisole might give cocaine a more intense high, possibly by increasing levels of dopamine, the brain’s “feel-good” neurotransmitters.
9121……………I only say “people will do it anyway” because they have been doing drugs and getting high for thousands of years. But maybe you’re right, perhaps we’ll buck the trend in the next 10 years………lol