› Short-term effects:

Narrowing of the blood vessels, dilated pupils, increased body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure, anxiety, panic, insomnia, loss of appetite, irritability.

Cocaine effects are short lived, and once the drugs leaves de brain may occur tremors, vertigo, muscle twitches, severe agitation, feeling of persecution, depression, fatigue, convulsions and coma.

 › Long-term effects:

Paranoia, irritability, mood disturbances, auditory hallucinations, impotence, loss appetite, feelings of persecution.

Snorting cocaine can destroy the sensors tissues of the nose.

The Injecting drug user is also at risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B or C if injection equipment is shared.

Cocaine related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizures followed by respiratory arrest. There have been reports of persons that died from small doses.