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question (for a story) about cocaine effects
I'm writing a story for which it would be helpful to know about the effects that taking (snorting) cocaine would have on a regular recreational user. I haven't even tried googling this because I feel certain that everything I get will be either anti-drug propaganda or pro-drug propaganda, and neither is useful to me.
Information about both the immediate effects (what's a cocaine high like for a regular user?) and the longer-term effects of regular cocaine use would be helpful. Since the story's in the POV of someone else (who has used cocaine in the past but isn't high during the scene in question), I'd especially like to know about behavioral effects. The character who's high isn't trying to hide the fact.
He then goes on to drink a substantial amount of alcohol--four double whiskies--in a short time period on top of the cocaine he's already taken. Again, anything you can tell me about the effect of mixing alcohol and cocaine would be great.
I'd prefer not to write the character in question as an addict, so I guess there's a subsidiary question, which is: is it possible to use cocaine fairly regularly and not become addicted? (Sorry if that's a stupid question. I was raised in the US during the anti-drug scare of the 1980s and was bombarded with the propaganda that all illegal drugs are instantly addictive.)
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Information about both the immediate effects (what's a cocaine high like for a regular user?) and the longer-term effects of regular cocaine use would be helpful. Since the story's in the POV of someone else (who has used cocaine in the past but isn't high during the scene in question), I'd especially like to know about behavioral effects. The character who's high isn't trying to hide the fact.
He then goes on to drink a substantial amount of alcohol--four double whiskies--in a short time period on top of the cocaine he's already taken. Again, anything you can tell me about the effect of mixing alcohol and cocaine would be great.
I'd prefer not to write the character in question as an addict, so I guess there's a subsidiary question, which is: is it possible to use cocaine fairly regularly and not become addicted? (Sorry if that's a stupid question. I was raised in the US during the anti-drug scare of the 1980s and was bombarded with the propaganda that all illegal drugs are instantly addictive.)
Anonymous commenting is fine; I've switched off IP logging.
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