Smoking base: the effects of using this drug, and what to do about it

One of the characteristics of habitual drug use is that this kind of health problem is not restricted to a specific social class: People with any level of purchasing power can be exposed to a way of life that leads them to develop an addiction due to drug use. substances.

However, what does exist is a certain compartmentalization of the use of drugs used according to the social class to which one belongs. In this way, the middle classes and the well-being have access to certain substances, and the casualties are pushed to the use of certain drugs reserved for environments of greater marginality.

The base smoking habit is one of those examples of addictions that are widely implanted in poor neighborhoods., especially in some Latin American countries but also in Spain. Let's see what the effects of this drug are.

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What is cocaine base paste?

What is known as smoking basuco, referring to smoking cocaine base paste, is an addictive habit associated with many physical and psychological health problems.

This drug is also popularly called "paco", "bazuco", "bicha" or simply "base", and is considered a cheaper alternative to cocaine, similar to crack. Unlike the latter, in the basuco the cocaine residues (obtained from the crude extract of the leaf of the Erythroxylum coca plant). they are even more mixed with other substances besides sodium bicarbonate, the most important being kerosene or benzoic acid.

In addition, the chemical properties of the base paste mean that this substance cannot generate a reaction of combustion in contact with fire, so it is mixed with tobacco and cannabis when making cigarettes from roll.

What are the effects of smoking base?

As with conventional cocaine, the base paste has excitatory effects on the Central Nervous System and gives rise to a feeling of euphoria.

On the other hand, this high state of nervous activation makes the person more sensitive to any stimulus and is easily irritable, which predisposes her to be aggressive.

In addition, these effects wear off relatively quickly, predisposing people to develop dependence quickly by smoking one cigarette after another.

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Treatment of addiction to cocaine base paste

As with all addictions, by regularly smoking base, the person generates a increasing tolerance to this substance, so you need to consume more and more to experience the same effect. In this way, without realizing it, he enters a vicious circle through which he needs to smoke to calm the discomfort generated by his own addiction, reinforcing it more and more.

Fortunately, addiction to cocaine base paste can be treated by consulting professionals. In this treatment, the person is helped to detoxify, allowing the body to eliminate the remains of this drugs that remain in the body, and at the same time is taught to combat the thoughts and habits that can lead to relapse.

A) Yes, the health of the person is intervened both from the biological and the medical, as from the psychological. The body learns to live without the interference of the drug in the functioning of the nervous system, and the person learn to interact with the environment and with others, staying away from the temptation of the basuco or any other drug.

To this is added a follow-up process to support the patient in his reincorporation to life without drugs. The professionals who are experts in addictions solve your doubts, give you support in stressful situations that increase the risk of relapse, etc.

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