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 type 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 a drug addiction. of 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-off have access to certain substances, and the lower classes are pushed to use certain drugs reserved for the most marginalized environments.
The basic smoking habit is one of those examples of addictions that are widely established in poor neighborhoods, especially in some Latin American countries but also in Spain. Let’s see what the effects of this drug are.
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, basuco contains cocaine residues (obtained from the crude extract of the leaf of the Erythroxylum coca plant). They are even more mixed with other substances in addition to sodium bicarbonate, the most important being kerosene or benzoic acid.
Furthermore, the chemical properties of the base paste mean that this substance cannot generate a combustion reaction in contact with fire, which is why it is mixed with tobacco and cannabis when making rolling cigarettes.
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.
Furthermore, these effects wear off relatively quickly, predisposing people to quickly develop dependence as they smoke one cigarette after another.
Treatment of addiction to cocaine base paste
As with all addictions, by smoking base regularly, the person generates an increasing tolerance to this substance, so they need to consume more and more to experience the same effect. In this way, without realizing it, he enters a vicious circle in 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 if you go to professionals In this treatment, the person is helped to detoxify, allowing the body to eliminate the remains of this drug that remain in the body, and at the same time the person is taught to combat the thoughts and habits that can lead to a relapse.
So, intervenes in the health of the person both biologically and medically, as well as from the psychological point of view. The body learns to live without the interference of the drug in the functioning of the nervous system, and the person learns to interact with the environment and with others by staying away from the temptation of basuco or any other drug.
To this is added a follow-up process to support the patient in their return to life outside of drugs. Addiction professionals resolve your doubts, provide support in stressful situations that increase the risk of relapse, etc.
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