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Cocaine addiction is very powerful, and it destroys lives. It brings financial, professional, and relational ruin. It leaves people jobless, homeless, shoeless.
When you’re ready to take your life back, give us a call. We are always available with a compassionate ear and helping hand, wanting to help you or your loved one with cocaine addiction treatment. Whatever your situation, we can help you figure out the best course of action for how to quit cocaine abuse and develop a new set of personal empowerment interventions to stop the cocaine use and reclaim your life.
Whether you’re desperately wanting to quit but don’t know how, are in the throes of detox and withdrawal and need some help, or are past those initial stages and want help with deeper recovery work or even transitional housing, call us. Our caring treatment professionals will help ensure you get to the right place for your individual set of circumstances.
In order to better understand cocaine withdrawal, it is useful to better understand the physiological addiction cocaine users experience.
Cocaine, also known as coke, is a rapid-response stimulant to the central nervous system. This stimulant use produces an intense but short-lived euphoria. The euphoria is due to the drug’s effects on the brain, as it triggers the brain’s reward system and affects pathways that respond to stress, elevating stress hormones.
Cocaine has a symbiotic relationship with stress – using cocaine helps alleviate effects of stress, and also elevates stress hormones that increase stress when using the drug.
The primary neurological effect of cocaine is the associated increase in dopamine release. Dopamine impacts thoughts, motivation, movements, and pleasure centers. An excess of dopamine brought on by cocaine use makes people feel good and want to keep using the drug, while at the same time, reduces dopamine’s normally pleasurable effects from everyday activities such as exercise, eating, and sex.
Over time, cocaine abuse can change the brain’s dopamine system, linked to poorer cognitive performance, psychosis, and suicide ideation. Physical health risks include heart attack, stroke, seizure, and infections like HIV and hepatitis C from shared needles. It also causes organ damage and eventual death.
Cocaine comes in a powder, solid, or liquid. Powder is ingested through snorting or on the gums. Solid is smoked (“crack” cocaine, a derivative of the powder that is heated and inhaled). Liquid is injected intravenously.
If you’re wondering how long a cocaine high lasts, cocaine’s method of ingestion influences how quickly the user feels effects and total duration of action.
Snorting and oral applications cause a high; injecting and smoking first cause a rush followed by a high.
It is common for cocaine users to use the drug over and over again to stay high for a longer period of time. This is called a binge, and it can last for several sleepless days. Binge use usually ends in an unpleasant crash. This crash can lead users to more drug use to counter the crash. Tolerance increases quickly as does risk of addiction.
Withdrawal symptoms can occur following a binge or after long-term regular use.
Cocaine withdrawals result from physiological dependence to the drug, meaning the body has adapted to – and expects – the drug’s presence.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), observes that most cocaine users are polydrug users, meaning that cocaine is not their only substance. This means that when we see cocaine addiction, we’re also looking for other substance use as well.
Consequently, cocaine withdrawal symptoms may be combined with withdrawal symptoms from additional substances. This significantly complicates the detox and withdrawal processes, and is another reason to admit the patient to a qualified cocaine detox facility for the cocaine detox process.
Cocaine is a stimulant that affects the central nervous system. It is responsible for the release of neurotransmitters including dopamine. Symptoms of cocaine withdrawal include:
Withdrawal syndrome from cocaine use can be quite severe. Side effects from both the stimulant withdrawal and the dopamine reduction can bring physical symptoms that include intense cravings, suicidal thoughts, and generally feeling worse than imaginable. The drug cravings are so intense, they’re actually physically painful. Mercifully, the side effects of acute withdrawal last only a few days.
As soon as the user stops using the drug, the withdrawal can begin, meaning the recovery process can begin.
Mental health issues are often wrapped up in cocaine abuse. Indeed, cravings for the stimulant use and ensuing dopamine jolt derive from underlying psychosocial and other mental health considerations. Now, we see that the addiction health problem encompasses mental health problems as well.
Substance abuse treatment must absolutely include psychiatry and mental health well-being treatments such as psychotherapy where appropriate. If we don’t get to the underlying root of the addiction, we can only treat the symptoms, which is the addiction itself, and that is a temporary fix, like a band-aid. For long-term relief from cocaine cravings and addiction, treatment options must include mental health attention.
If you’re wondering how to get cocaine out of your system fast, the simplest answer is to stop ingesting the drug. The body metabolizes cocaine relatively quickly compared with other substances.
Cocaine or its metabolites can show positive on a saliva or blood test for up to 2 days, on a urine test up to 3 days, and on a hair test for much longer. Heavy cocaine users may test positive for cocaine on a urine test for up to two weeks.
Factors that influence how long the drug stays in the body include body weight, metabolic rate, cocaine dosage, and frequency of use. Ingesting alcohol during cocaine use also slows cocaine’s elimination from the body.
The very first step in any drug treatment program is detoxification. You’ve got to get the drug out of your body. Symptoms of cocaine withdrawal are real, and they are uncomfortable.
Medical detox is enduring the detoxification process under the watchful eye of a team of medical professionals. The medical team will ensure the safety and well-being of the patient during the cocaine detox process.
Medical detox can take place at a treatment center or hospital. The patient may be admitted to inpatient addiction treatment where they will receive 24-hour oversight during this initial stage of the withdrawal process or, if the patient is ambulatory, medical detox may occur through an outpatient treatment program such as the one we offer on-site at Premiere Recovery Center.
If you or a loved one is struggling with a cocaine addiction and you’d love some help with how to come down from cocaine and learn to live a drug-free life, we’re your answer.
Common treatment options for cocaine addiction include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), group therapy, and individual therapy. Holistic programs like the one we offer at Premiere Recovery Center also include meditation, yoga, and medical consultation and oversight.
Our facility is day-use only, and we realize that some patients benefit from a more immersive experience into the drug-free lifestyle. Therefore, we also offer very comfortable luxury homes nearby for our patients to stay during their treatment if they so desire. These are upscale, massive, spacious, quiet, clean-and-sober, comfortable homes with every conceivable amenity. They are intended for our patients’ comfort while going through the challenges of early drug treatment.
We also have an affiliated transitional housing facility at Premiere Sober Living. This option is available to our current and past patients who feel more comfortable in a dedicated clean-and-sober home environment in their early stages of sobriety.
Premiere Recovery Center is located in Happy Valley, Clackamas County, Oregon. Our facility sits near the junction of 82nd Avenue and I-205, near Clackamas Town Center. This convenient access allows us to easily serve the entire Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area with high-quality cocaine addiction withdrawal and recovery treatment. At the same time, we are far enough out of town to not be bothered by the issues in town.
Our area is safe, quiet, private, upscale, and very comfortable. The serene environment for our healing facility is one important feature of the substance use treatment services we offer.
We are here for you. Wherever you are in the recovery journey, even if you haven’t even started it yet, we are here for you. We want to help you sort out your recovery journey, and will help you select programs that are just right for your situation.
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