Four Ways to Battle Cocaine Addiction
1. Go Through Withdrawal
Withdrawing from cocaine isn't easy, but it's necessary in order to kick the habit completely. Rather than gradually reducing your dose of cocaine, which is a difficult and usually impossible means to end your dependence, it's often better to quit using it all at once. Once you stop using cocaine, you can expect to go through nausea, dizziness, headaches, vomiting, cold sweats and convulsions for the next 3 to 5 days, at a minimum.
Most people find that they need help doing this. It's extremely helpful to have a friend or family member nearby to take care of you during withdrawal and to keep you from reaching for more cocaine. However, if you need stronger intervention than this, you should do your withdrawal in a rehab facility as an inpatient, so you can be under the care of doctors who can give you medications to help you through the worst parts.
2. Attend Group Meetings
Cocaine Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous are both available to former cocaine addicts to help keep you off the drug for good. At group meetings, people who are or have been addicted to drugs meet and share their personal stories. They also offer support and advice to other members who are struggling. Group meetings not only provide advice, they also offer accountability, which is essential to staying off cocaine. If you know you're going to have to explain yourself to the group if you fall of the wagon, you'll be much less likely to do so.
3. Take Medication
There are several medications available that will help you get off cocaine. Gamma vinyl-gamma-aminobutyric acid blocks the effects of cocaine, so you can't get high. It also lowers dopamine levels in the brain, which helps prevent addiction. GBR 12909 also significantly lessens the impact of cocaine on your brain. Rimonabant reduces addiction to cocaine and lessens the chance of a relapse once you detox. Certain anti-depressant medications can help reduce the incidence of depression following cocaine withdrawal, which, in turn, lessens the chance you'll relapse.
4. Try the Vaccine
There is a vaccine currently being developed that keeps cocaine from reaching your brain at all. Once you've taken the vaccine, cocaine will no longer produce any kind of effect in your body, which completely eliminates the possibility of addiction. If you're already addicted, it may help you overcome the addiction.
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