Cocaine Hampers Body's Ability to Store Fat: How It Affects Your Metabolism …

Published August 17, 2013

Cocaine Hampers Body's Ability To Store Fat: How It Affects Your Metabolism …
As a strong central nervous system stimulant, cocaine floods the brain with dopamine, creating a feeling of euphoria and pleasure. Cocaine use affects the constriction of blood vessels and increases body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure.
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Today in Music History
He entered no-contest pleas a year later to cocaine and assault charges and was sentenced to nine months at a drug rehabilitation centre and three months of house arrest. In 1994, a sale of guitars and psychedelic … In 2012, singer Scott McKenzie …
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ER Visits Related to Brain Stimulants Have Quadrupled
The popularity may have been in part because amphetamines hit our brains with some extra dopamine (in a "tonic" fashion that's subtler than the "phasic" mechanism of drugs like cocaine), but they also really did work for many of the advertised purposes …
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