Cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs that exist. Alcohol is barely addictive.
Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky'
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i don’t know enough about cocaine and want to learn.
setting aside the axe he has to grind and in the specific context of his comments about fentanyl and whisky, how accurate or inaccurate are his statements? what makes them so?
argon@lemmy.today 2 months ago
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Meanwhile, severe cocaine withdrawal makes you tired and irritable while severe alcohol withdrawal makes you have seizures and die. Most people who use cocaine never develop an addiction, just like most people who drink never develop alcoholism. As far as addiction potential, methamphetamines, opiates, and nicotine are the worst offenders.
argon@lemmy.today 2 months ago
If you make cocaine legal, you effectively make crack legal, since the conversion is trivial.
And no, methamphetamine existing does not make cocaine less harmful.
protist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
If you make cocaine legal, you reduce overdose deaths significantly. Most OD deaths involving cocaine are due to dosing uncertainty and adulteration with other substances like fentanyl. Legalization would also decrease barriers to treatment and less criminal justice involvement would improve treatment outcomes
Laser@feddit.org 2 months ago
You’re not addicted to cocaine until you’re poor, until then it’s a habit.
stink@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
This is just wrong lol. “Alcohol is a lot less addictive” while it is the most abused substance in the world
argon@lemmy.today 2 months ago
The most abused substance is caffeine.
How often a substance is abused has very little to do with how dangerous or addictive it is.
onlyoneIbought@r.nf 2 months ago
It’s note abuse if it doesn’t have any negative impact and unless I’m in denial I’m pretty sure my tea drinking isn’t.
Cptmurph616@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Going off memory, I think cocaine on its own really isn’t THAT bad as far as hard drugs go, but when combined with alcohol it metabolites into “cocaethylene” which is highly toxic and basically shreds your heart.
And I’ve never met anyone that uses coke WITHOUT booze.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Its hard to analyze it in its own since its use is as an energy fix in party contexts.
Example, its 6am youve been partying all night and are drunk and sleepy but want to keep partying or go to work, so you snort a line and you can keep it up for another day.