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What Exactly Are the Dangers of Cocaine?

Question by mrzwink: What exactly are the dangers of Cocaine?
plz inform me about cocaine:

about what cocaine does the the brain and body?
how well is it tolerated, and how long does it remain?
what the effects are of longtime use?
combinations with other drugs? (alcohol, mdma, amphetamines?)
is it a physical or mental addiction, or both?

Plz no links to wikipedia.

Best answer:

Answer by andrecan2002
Addiction
Death by overdose !!!

Answer by Sam
What, you don’t like wikipedia? But it’s so useful and 100% accurate. 😉 (The following is from the Columbia Encyclopedia)

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