Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid. It is a white crystalline powdery substance and usually taken with some other substances like corn starch, powdered milk, sugars or flour. It is taken into body by snorting, smoking, injection or oral. A large amount of cocaine may cause a decrease in respirations. A very large dose may also lead to coma or death. Usually larger dose of cocaine causes slurring of speech, staggered gait and an altered perception.

This drug stays in our system for at least forty-eight hours. It works just like alcohol. A small amount of it gives comfort and calm state to the body. It relaxes the muscles too.

How long does cocaine stay in your body ?

In fact if is difficult to find out how long does cocaine stays in your system. However, there are some major factors that determine the duration of how long the cocaine stays in your body. These are as mentioned below:

• The amount of cocaine that one consumes
• The consumption form of cocaine
• The intensity level that one has consumed cocaine
• The frequency of consumption
• The effect of routinous medicines
• The tolerance limit of a person
• The age and sex of one who is consuming it
• The rate of metabolism of that person
• The health state of that person

What do report says about the presence of cocaine in your system?

Report says that cocaine stays in the body for two or three days. But technically this is not true. Different drug tests can detect the traces cocaine in the body even after three days. To understand it properly let us follow the below mentioned details:

• It is expected that cocaine are present in the body for up to 72 hours after its intake.
• If the intake is only once then cocaine is expected to be detected in the urine for 13 days.
• If one is habituated to cocaine then traces of cocaine can be detected in urine for up to 12 weeks.
• In hair cocaine can be traced till 3 months since the last intake.
• Few available reports also suggest that cocaine can be traced for a period of 25 years since its intake.

What do cocaine drug tests actually test ?

This is a big question because there is a concept that cocaine stays in our system for 2-3 days only. In fact drug tests usually test the presence of cocaine along with the presence of any metabolite of cocaine in our body. The cocaine in our body produces benzoylecgonine. It is universally known that benzoylecgonine retains in our body for around a month since the intake of cocaine.

What are the effect of cocaine in our body?

Cocaine in fact stimulates the nervous system and also at the same time it reduces the appetite. It blocks the dopamine from entering the body and hence it generates a synapse burst in our brain, which induces a euphoric high.

If someone takes cocaine by chewing coca leaves then it takes around 30 minutes to enter the blood stream. Through snorting it enters the blood within 20 minutes and is sustained for around one hour. Snorting in fact produces the maximum effects.

The fastest process is injecting. The effect is high at an average time of 3.1 minutes and it also has the highest health risks.

How does one feel after the intake of cocaine ?

One who takes cocaine feels alert and gains full of energy. His or her self-confidence increases and one becomes more sociable. He or she also feels strong and sexually aroused. Apart from these one also talks a lot after taking cocaine.

The physiology effects are increase in heart beat and blood pressure and there is a rise in the body temperature.

What to do to remove cocaine out of your system ?

Removing cocaine is the only way out to continue your prestige in the society and continue leading a normal life as before without loosing your job or being taken away to hospitals or prisons.

Pharmaceutical companies have come up with respectable products for cleaning the body. These are Detoxifying Products known as Detoxes. These medicines actually work in certain principles. It cleans the three main parts of the body where the toxins are stored i.e. hair, urine and blood. There are also medications available which can only work with hair, blood or urine. 

Cut your hair before the intake of cocaine

Usually cocaine remains in the hair until the hair is cut. Take this example. The growth of hair has been counted at an average rate of 0.5 inches per month. Now, if someone is about to quit the habit of cocaine intake and has hair of length 3 inches then cocaine will remain in the hair for 180 days.

However, there are few shampoos available in the market, which are designed to remove the cocaine metabolites from the hair.

Common names of cocaine

• Cocaine
• Crack
• Coc
• Coke
• Snow
• Candy
• Toot 
• Flake

Some facts about cocaine

In the United States and Europe cocaine is the second most popular recreational drug after marijuana. According to the data of the year 2006, 6 million Americans of above 12 years had abused cocaine in any form. The data also reveals that 1.5 million Americans had abused crack minimum one time in the year prior to being surveyed.

The effect of cocaine appears immediately after a single dose and it disappears within a few minutes or hours. The euphoric effect of the cocaine in fact depends upon the route of administration. In brief it can be said that the quicker the absorption, the briefer the period of action.