photo credit: Adam Swank[/caption]As if taking Cocaine alone would not be dangerous enough, it has been found recently that taking Cocaine makes you ugly on top of it, as reported by the NY Daily News. Cocaine abusers which already at risk for disturbances in heart rhythm, heart attacks, chest pain, respiratory failure, strokes, seizures, headaches, Gastrointestinal effects, abdominal pain, nausea, can add another potential health complication to the list: rotting flesh.
"If you are a user of cocaine, you should be aware that some of the cocaine is not clean and can have other agents that can cause you to have a low white-cell count or skin tissue death," said Dr. Ghinwa Dumyati, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Rochester and an epidemiologist for the Monroe County Health Department in New York to Healthday.com.
In a recent article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Dumyati and doctors from the University of Rochester Medical Center describe two cases where women were admitted to a hospital. These two cases were complaining about purplish plaques on their cheeks, earlobes, legs, thighs and buttocks.
It was found that this could be traced to toxic levels of Levamisole. This is a medication that is used in cattle, sheep and pigs to treat worms. This substance is often used to cut cocaine, before distribution to the user. "Almost 80 percent of the cocaine coming into this country has Levamisole mixed in," Dumyati said.
It is not known why this is being done. Some say that it "enhances" the effects of cocaine, while others say that it is mainly used for stretching the drug and that way increase the profits. The end-user will not know what is in the snow he bought. Once their flesh is rotten, it will become obvious.
But, not all is lost. It is actually possible to get rid of Cocaine. With the proper drug rehab program addicts can get rid of the direct and indirect effects of cocaine. If the correct rehab program is used, the rotten flesh will come to live again.
One such program is the Narconon program. The Narconon drug rehab program steps are entirely drug-free; that is, our drug rehabilitation program does not use drugs or medications to solve the problems caused by drugs, but does use nutrition and nutritional supplements as an important component of its delivery. Thus the Narconon program is neither a psychiatric nor medical, but a social education model of rehabilitation. If you or a loved one needs help to get rid of Cocaine or any other drug, please call 1-888-521-2059 to speak to a trained drug counselor.
People should exercise caution when choosing a drug rehab, and do their research to find the one that's best for them. Different people are different in their needs, and just as drugs can have a severe impact on one's health, so too can drug rehabs affect people in different ways. Please find the one that's right for you!
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