A few questions about cocaine addiction, tolerance and the like

[psytaco]

I'm currently in latin america and will be for another 4-5 months. As one would expect, I have access to cheap and highly pure cocaine. In my home country (Australia) cocaine is ridiculously expensive and highly cut. So I have been using it quite regularly here.

I was wondering how long physical addiction takes to occur, what withdrawal symptoms are present (were one to be addicted) etc. Would one have to use everyday to experience this kind of addiction?

I have to go due to only having limited time to use the internet, but will go into a bit more detail when I have more time. cheers guys

 

[OverDone]

Physical addiction to cocaine is minimal but it does occur and there are 'withdrawal' symptoms such as insomnia, agitation, anhedonia, and depression.

How and when a person gets addicted is going to vary according to the individual. The mental obsession and compulsion is what grabbed me by the balls and dragged me to places I needn't have gone and do things that are unacceptable and disgusting.

Be careful with that shit, man. Yeah, physical addiction is slight but coke, IMO, is one of the most dangerous drugs to fuck around with.

 

[paranoid android]

Coke is a shit addiction all it does is make you want more coke. Withdrawal symptoms are typically minimal but if your doing alot all your going to be thinking about is coke. It's the horrible horrible psychological addiction that makes cocaine so addictive.

My advice would be to stop now because it's not going to get any easier.

 

[Legerity]

I would imagine that you could develop quite an attachment to it within 4-5 months, but like OD said it always depends on the person. But it would potentially be a nightmare trying to maintain the same level of use once returning home and having price/quality change drastically.

I was never particularly heavy into it but I used it enough and saw enough people close to me develop quite the habits. It seems like a common reaction to want to get higher after taking a drug but coke really seems to be something where wanting more is just about the primary effect. I hope you can avoid it getting too heavy while you are there.

 

[Nagelfar]

How much you like doing it is directly proportional to how addicted you are to it.

Amount of euphoria created by something +/- how much ease of habituation toward the act of using that something which induces said euphoria = addiction.