Re: how long can you do cocaine?
- From: Chris Rockcliffe <chrisrockcliffe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:39:03 +0100
Norman Draper12/5/06 5:05 pm
By the way, nicotine kills 350,000 people a year; alcohol kills
150,000. ALL of the illegal drugs in the US kill fewer than 20,000.
Follow the money.....
Yes it puts things in a certain perspective. The crime associated with the
recreational illegal drugs is of course another thing...
But a correction... It isn't the nicotine that kills, it is the smoke
inhalation and smoking part - the inhalation of carbon monoxide and other
poisons and carcinogens, tar build up and deposits in the lungs and
bloodstream etc and damage to blood-flow, heart and brain cells etc. (I
managed to give up and now occasionally try to help and encourage others who
decide to try and stop.)
Nor is the nicotine so addictive that we cannot stop. The nicotine
withdrawal takes only a couple of weeks at most and then we are withdrawing
from the cigarettes and the physical act of smoking. That full withdrawal
is psychological and can take years.
You could create a relatively harmless nicotine addiction from scratch just
by chewing the gum and wearing the patches... but who the hell would do
that? It is pointless. The smoking, lighting up, inhaling and all the
paraphernalia and body language of the act of smoking is the really
addictive part.
It isn't the alcohol either that simply kills, but how it is drunk and when.
With the stupid and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks - often binge
drinking among the young with little or no food - it is the effect on the
stomach and the destruction of the liver plus damage to brain cells, related
problems like blood pressure and obesity etc.
It is even believed by some doctors and experts that moderate amounts of
alcohol with food can actually be beneficial for many people.
I know and have known people in the past who have controlled their cocaine
or alcohol or marijuana or other opiates and barbiturates use and I've seen
other people become addicted and unable to use those drugs in any way
reasonably.
Weak-willed people - can be many of us - given the right or perhaps wrong
circumstances. Although when I was young I used illegal recreational drugs
on occasion, I have been myself at times in both camps - regarding alcohol.
I took to drinking whisky - usually neat or with very little water - during
the day at a bad time in my life and within a few weeks I was up to a bottle
of good whisky every 36 hours or so - worse at times. Eventually, I took a
driving job to try and break the cycle and it worked. Stopped drinking and
started to enjoy sobriety again.
Often the people who use drugs just to escape temporarily are the ones who
suffer longer term. It is easy to get into drinking if certain
circumstances prevail and being in a state of intoxication becomes
increasingly desirable.
Serious cocaine addiction is a reality for people with certain character
traits and I've seen many creative and fragile types taken down by it - no
killed by it - but their careers ruined and the fact that heroine is cheaper
and more accessible is an obvious link to worse habits.
I remember feeling good with cocaine (offered by some wealthy US friends in
the UK) and thought I was sharper and wittier as a result. I do remember
with all the alcohol also consumed, I slept rather a long time. I also know
people who gave up tobacco, but still smoke weed in copious amounts. In fact
they seem to be addicted to just being stoned.
Of the smoking of crack cocaine and heroine - I know little but that it is
seriously dodgy and far worse than other consumption methods because the hit
is often bigger and less well controlled.
Music, musicians as well as actors and comedians etc and drugs have always
been close bedfellows. Cocaine use in the USA was helped enormously by
state after state going dry and then national US Prohibition - all during
the first 30 odd years of the 20th century. Whilst police chased the
bootleggers and their contraband crates of whisky, people just snorted the
sherbet like it was going out of fashion. It was cheap plentiful and very
easy to carry and hide.
In that time, just about every decent song with the word cocaine in it was
written - so it wasn't all bad. I've also been singing an old-timey song
from that era without cocaine in it called *Goodbye Booze* written by an
unknown writer - but recorded in 1926 and a hit by Charlie Poole. It seems
like a strange time to have recorded this one...
E A E
Chorus: So goodbye booze for evermore;
B9 E
My boozin' days, will soon be o-er;
A E
We had a good time, but we couldn't agree;
B9 E
You see what booze has done for me.
Charlie didn¹t take his own well sung advice however. In 1931 he went out on
a 3-week serious binge drinking spree - from which he sadly died.
CR
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