Posted by 3 Beer Effect on March 18, 2002, at 23:51:03
In reply to ZOLOFT COCAINE MARIJUANA!! » Michie, posted by ecuadoriang on March 18, 2002, at 14:59:05
Zoloft increases the effects of cocaine, sometimes prolonging its effects to twice as long. There is a street slang term for swallowing a Zoloft pill & then later doing cocaine- it might be "Zoomers"- I forgot. I used to do cocaine on Zoloft, never had any ill effects & it did seem to increase the pleasureable effects, but keep in mind that the fatal dose of pure cocaine is 1.2 grams.
Cocaine plus alcohol metabolizes into cocaethylene which has about double the half life of regular cocaine which increases the pleasurable effects of both. But this combination is more toxic than cocaine itself, especially since the alcohol makes it hard to tell when you are too wired & need to slow down lest you have a heart attack!
The problem with Cocaine is that it clots the blood & causes brain damage- this is probably why there are more hospital admissions & deaths from cocaine than all of the other illegal drugs combined. Its half-life is also too short, so you end up needing a fix all of the time & it is way too expensive. (Amphetamines are safer & much less addictive than cocaine- although street versions of amphetamines/methamphetamines contain harmful chemicals from their illicit production that also cause brain damage & amphetamines are often very impure outside of California- California is know as the source nation for methamphetamine by the DEA!).
The speedball- Cocaine + Heroin is the ultimate bad idea. So many people die from this combo because they can't tell when they've had too much cocaine- the heroin dulls the dysphoric aspects of the "wired" effect of cocaine & so they overdose the cocaine & have a heart attack.
If I were you I would cut the Heroin stuff out before you become another statistic.
To get off the cocaine (if you happen to be addicted) Ritalin (methylphenidate) works very well & except for the nasal numbness shares many similar effects (One street term for Ritalin is "kiddie cocaine"). Ritalin is a superior drug because it has a much longer half life which discourages frequent self administration & is less addictive, & does not cause brain damage & is remarkably non-toxic.
I personally found Cocaine is not the most addictive of all drugs as is often frequently reported in the press. I used Cocaine 10 times on an erratic basis, but never had a feeling of addiction. Back in history, before 1915, when cocaine was legal in the USA there was a much greater problem with morphine & opium addiction than cocaine addiction. It is said that it was banned for racist reasons, that Cocaine made "Black people uncontrollable." In fact, I have found Caffeine to be much more addictive & harder to not take it. Try to go a month without any caffeine- most people couldn't do it. But amphetamines & Ritalin are just as good & much cheaper than cocaine- what's the point of doing cocaine anymore- this isn't the disco glamour era anymore. This is probably why the cocaine trade is waning, & use is way down- all the drug abusers found out that amphetamines & ecstacy are better & last longer & are cheaper- hence the explosion of meth labs all across the country. We are winning the drug war on cocaine by tightening the border security at Mexico but cocaine is being replaced by other (synthetic) drugs anyways.
You'd be best off, just taking your prescribed meds. The Zoloft + Rivotril (Klonopin) is a good combination- with this combo you don't really need alcohol or cocaine to talk to people & have a good time. Just drink an iced tea & say "i don't do that sh*t anymore- that's what I did.
Even pot is bad for you- I heard every line from friends that say the opposite, but in the end my "pothead" friends ended up burnouts with no motivation to do anything except sit on the couch all day & smoke. They even stopped going to class & all failed out of college.
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