Cocaine Addiction & Recovery Support Group

Cocaine addiction is the excessive intake of cocaine, and can result in physiological damage, lethargy, depression, or a potentially fatal overdose. Though the immediate craving to do more cocaine is strong and very common, this feeling usually subsides in most users within an hour. This craving can, as it has in many users, develop rather quickly into an intense...

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Brain damage

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my oldest daughter is addicted to crack. She has been in rehab twice. I am a nurse I worked in nursing homes for 30 years. The last 8 years I have seen more and more young people end up in nursing homes because their brains are fried because of drugs and I can tell you there is nothing sadder than to see a young man with tears coming down his eyes saying he won"t ever do it again when it's too late
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deleted_user
Got that right.I took my x there after passing out while getting out of my car.After doing 4 grams of crack.Sad thing is after all that.She went back to it the next day.
angelndisguise
angelndisguise
That is so very sad. I think those of us who made it out alive and well, should give thanks and give back so that we can help our fellow brothers and sisters. We all know that everyone has to be ready to accept help in their own time but maybe they could learn some lessons from those who were less fortunate. When we are out there we all thought "oh it wont happen to me" No, maybe not this time but keep using and it could. It could very well kill you.
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Unfortunately when in the addiction our brains don't see the facts. All they see, hear, and believe is for the drug. I look back to what 18 years of sobriety has taught me and I was so so lucky.
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posoldlad I read your profile.Got o say your iether very strong or a fool with damage to put up with your husband and his affairs.I wouldnt let it go near that point.I just dont know how you do it,or maybe i just misread it.if so,could your desision be based on the post topic?
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deleted_user
It is just sad yes.
The facts are the facts! This drug kills as well as wounds. Those who have made it out "for today" I am happy to join in the dance of life. consciously = with spirit. I embrace all those spirits who are sadly imobalized from using and know there life meant something (I just wish it meant more to the individual) This is the curse of cyclical abuse...not deserving love or life...it is just sad.
I deserve to be loved! But, could not feel these words as truth until I loved my owness frist.
With compassion and care

Sherose
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deleted_user
it's horrible
i would know
i'm brain damaged from a drug overdose
deleted_user
deleted_user
The really sad thing is that dying and brain damage don't deter us from using. NOTHING DOES! We have a mind that tells us, "just one more time" or "it won't happen to me." These kind of thoughts when fully established in an addict override any rational thought concerning drugs. Talk about hopeless.
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trooper...My ex husband is the one that was unfaithful. Let that go along with alot of other hurts back in 2003. The man I'm with now is an addict in recovery and doing real well at this point. Even when in his addiction he never treated me wrong. I have walked through many fires of hell to get to where I am today. I give all the credit to the Lord for saving me from the scars of life.
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