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TUESDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- Cocaine abusers -- already at risk for an abnormal heartbeat, blood pressure problems, hallucinations, convulsions and stroke -- can add another potential health complication to the list: rotting flesh.
Contaminated Cocaine Can Cause Flesh to Rot
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Drugs are bad. Especially when one of the side effects is rotting flesh. Living Zombie?
#1 - Fri Jun 4, 2010 11:02 AM EDTI have no sympathy for drug users. Sorta like a few weeks ago there was an article about heroine being so pure it was killing the user immediatley (to the point that they died before they can take the needle out). And I am supposed to feel sorry for these people?
#2 - Fri Jun 4, 2010 11:11 AM EDTDo you have sympathy for Alcoholics? Or maybe smokers? If alcoholism is an illness that is treatable shouldn't other addictions be treated the same?
Most drugs users start with one bad choice and then they become physically dependent on the substance of their choice.
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No, I don't have sympathy for smokers. Here are the dangers of smoking, slammed in your face every day. . .and yet they chose to smoke in the first place. The side effects outweigh the positive effects.
This is old news. I see this every day in the hospital. People will shoot up anything. I have people using pond water to mix their heroin with before they shoot it up. Nothing surprises me any more. I have seen infections where I thought for sure the person was going to loose their arm or leg. People running out of veins and shooting up in their neck or in the groin. One woman we saw about 3 weeks ago was shooting up in the veins of her breasts. I have been a nurse for 32 years and I have seen more illness as a result of smoking, alcohol, and drugs than I care to think about. If you eliminated smoking, liquor and drugs you would cut the illness in this country by at least half or more. But no matter how sick they get, we see them over and over for the same thing. People smoke for 30 years and wonder when they get 60 why they can't breath any more. People drink forever and have terminal liver failure and wonder why they don't get better. It is just not going to happen. We talk about drugs, but alcohol and smoking are just as bad or worse.
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