Crack Cocaine Treatment

Crack cocaine is one of the most powerfully addictive drugs on the street market. Due to its addictive nature, most people that try the drug end up getting addicted and need crack cocaine treatment. The treatment process can be extremely powerful and is one of the only wants that addiction can be overcome. Because crack cocaine harms the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of a person, the crack cocaine treatment process must be multi-faceted and all encompassing.

Residential treatment at our drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers offers support and structure for men and women seeking treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction. Individuals reside at one of our residential treatment facilities for the course of the program, individualized, and our expert counseling staff is dedicated to providing services that consistently demonstrate long-term results.

There are direct correlations to length of stay in treatment and long term sobriety. The chances of an addict achieving sobriety and maintaining a lifestyle to support sobriety greatly increase when long term inpatient care is the treatment of choice. Most addictions are not born overnight. They develop over years into patterns of behavior. These patterns must be broken. This coupled with treating the bio-physical aspects of addiction and the emotional aspects of addiction take time.

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Crack Cocaine Relapse

When the addict initially tries to quit, cells in the brain that have become used to large amounts of these metabolites are now forced to deal with much decreased amounts. Even as the withdrawal symptoms subside, the brain demands that the addict give it more of the drug. This is called drug craving. Craving is an extremely powerful urge and can cause a person to create all kinds of “reasons” they should begin using drugs again. He is now trapped in an endless cycle of trying to quit, craving, relapse and fear of withdrawal.

Eventually, the brain cells will again become used to having lowered drug metabolites. But, because deposits of drug metabolites release back into the bloodstream from fatty tissues for years, craving and relapse remain a cause for concern. Left un-handled, the presence of metabolites even in microscopic amounts cause the brain to react as if the addict had again actually taken the drug and can set up craving and relapse even after years of sobriety.

Exercise that produces circulation of blood deep into the body followed by long periods of time spent in a dry sauna at low heat, has produced amazing detox results. Even cocaine users who had not used for many months have experienced beneficial detox from cocaine while in the sauna. Sauna detox has become the most successful form of detox when supervised by a trained specialist. A trained detox specialist can prevent overheating, cocaine relapse and withdrawal effects while taking a person through a cocaine detox. Cocaine abuse can end with the use of effective drug-free cocaine detox treatment.

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Crack Cocaine addiction requires crack cocaine detox and rehab to fully overcome the adverse mental and physical effects of the drug. Once a person becomes used to having crack in their body and brain, physical and mental addiction begins to take hold of the person. Crack sometimes makes the user feel superior, in control, psychic, even god like. These delusions are intense while using crack and lessen when not using. Because crack can make the person feel high artificially without the usual demands reality requires: like success, doing good, being acknowledged, etc, crack seems like a short cut to pleasure. The idea that crack cocaine improves life is the major LIE that crack users secretly hang onto. Users sometimes deny crack use and dependence and lie very convincingly to friends and family: as long as they can get more crack. Detox from crack cocaine requires a controlled environment away from the enticement of the drug.

Longer Detox

Crack detox can take considerably longer because the addict can apparently go without using for weeks and months at a time. Crack is usually a binging drug. Binging means the crack user usually smokes a lot of the drug over a short period of time, then doesn’t use. Some crack addicts will use $1,000s of crack in one binge if the drugs and the money are available. When the crack addict stops using crack, they often substitute other drugs for crack. Also, watch your sugar supply go down when a crack addict is around.

Dry-out versus Detox

Crack detox is much more than simply drying out or ceasing to use crack for awhile. Drying out allows the liver and kidneys enough time to remove the drug toxins from the blood system. Crack use leaves drug residues in the body; including the brain, liver and other tissues. After drying out from crack use, the person is now ready to detox from crack. Under carefully monitored detox programs of exercise, sauna sweat out, specific increasing amounts of effective nutrients, oils and vitamins, a person can fully detoxify from crack cocaine addiction. The process requires medical supervision, specialists and an exact procedure, but 1,000′s of people successfully detox from crack every year. Full and complete detox ends physical cravings for crack, for good.

Crack Cocaine

What is crack?

The chemical cocaine hydrochloride is commonly known as cocaine. Some users chemically process cocaine in order to remove the hydrochloride. This process is called "freebasing" and makes the drug more potent. "Crack" is a solid form of freebased cocaine. It is called "crack" because it snaps and cracks when heated and smoked.

What’s new about crack?

Since crack is an already prepared form of freebased cocaine, the user does not have to buy the equipment or be exposed to the explosive chemicals associated with freebasing. Crack is most often packaged in vials or plastic bags and sold in small quantities, usually 300-500mg or enough for two to three inhalations.

Traditionally, cocaine was a rich man’s drug, due to the large expense of a cocaine habit.

Now, crack is being sold at prices low enough that even adolescents can afford to buy it. But, this is misleading, since once a person is addicted to cocaine, his "habit" often increases, and so does his expense.

What are crack’s adverse effects?

As with any street drug, what is sold may not be what it is claimed to be. Predicting side effects is difficult when the actual contents are not known. Life-threatening reactions have been reported whether it’s the first, the 100th, or any other time crack is used. You do not have to overdose on crack to die from it.

In addition, if the initial experience leads to continued use, other adverse effects include the rapid development of tolerance, addiction, and all the social problems that can come from an expensive drug habit.

How is crack used?

The same way that freebase is used, namely, by placing the substance in a glass pipe (or hash pipe) with a fine mesh screen under it, then heating it and inhaling the vapors.

The vapors of the freebase are absorbed through the lungs into the bloodstream and transported to the brain within 10-15 seconds. One inhalation will produce a degree of intoxication usually lasting 10-15 minutes.

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Cocaine

Why would anyone become addicted to cocaine?

The effects of cocaine are immediate, extremely pleasurable, and brief. Cocaine and crack cocaine both produce intense but short-lived euphoria and can make users feel more energetic. Like caffeine, cocaine produces wakefulness and reduces hunger. Psychological effects include feelings of well-being and a grandiose sense of power and ability mixed with anxiety and restlessness. As the drug wears off, these temporary sensations of mastery are replaced by an intense depression, and the drug abuser will then "crash", becoming lethargic and typically sleeping for several days.

Is cocaine addiction serious?

Cocaine addiction can occur very quickly and be very difficult to break. Animal studies have shown that animals will work very hard (press a bar over 10,000 times) for a single injection of cocaine, choose cocaine over food and water, and take cocaine even when this behavior is punished. Animals must have their access to cocaine limited in order not to take toxic or even lethal doses. People addicted to cocaine behave similarly. They will go to great lengths to get cocaine and continue to take it even when it hurts their school or job performance and their relationships with loved ones.

Are there any other problems that can occur from crack or cocaine addiction?

Crack and other forms of cocaine can cause feelings of anxiety and depression, which may last for weeks. Attempts to stop using the drugs can fail simply because the resulting depression can be overwhelming, causing the addict to use more cocaine in an attempt to overcome his depression. This overpowering addiction can cause the addict to do anything to get cocaine.

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Crack Cocaine Addiction

Crack addiction is a process that is both rapid and severe. Those who believe that their "recreational" use is under control are not immune from the threat of addiction. Crack Cocaine is usually found in a crystalline rock shapes, looking like whitish pieces of very coarse sand or small rocks. Greater Vancouver, BC has a huge crack cocaine problem that has grown larger than Vancouver’s heroin problem. Crack cocaine generally sells for $10 to $20 a rock in Vancouver. The high can last 12 to 15 minutes and is followed by a severe low. Crack addiction could be caused by the compulsion to get ride of this unwanted feeling again and again. I know of some crack addicts who have used $800 to $2,000 a day of crack. This is a larger quantity than the average, but is used to demonstrate the intensity of crack addiction.

Crack Addiction Dangers

Crack Cocaine constricts or makes smaller the blood vessels supplying the heart with blood. Cocaine use creates high blood pressure and can cause heart attacks in even healthy individuals. Stroke, blindness and severe mental problems are associated with crack addiction. Crack cocaine tends to get caught up in the fat cells and other tissues of the body before being eliminated. This storage in the fat causes a build up of the drug toxins in the body. Cocaine toxins slowly or quickly can leak back into the blood stream and cause drug cravings, withdrawal symptoms or simply bad health. Many former crack addicts have reported feeling “drugged” 6 months after having stopped using drugs. Other former crack addicts report paranoia, anxiety, stress and many other crack cocaine withdrawal feelings months or years after stopping drug use.

Crack Detox

Crack cocaine addiction traditional treatment has one of the worst relapse rates of all addictions. Crack addiction relapse is due in part to the presence of stored drug toxins in the fat cells and other tissues. These drug toxins leak out and create cravings and drug relapse in many addicts struggling with addiction. A necessary step of Crack Cocaine Detox is to fully sweat out all the stored drug toxins from the body, prior to a full drug rehab program. This procedure is best done under a fully trained and qualified detox specialist and supervised by a medical doctor to insure effectiveness and safety of the procedure.