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How does cocaine cause heart and respiratory failure?
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Vasospasm, directly: Cocaine usually leads to problems via vasospasm and severe high blood pressure leading to death of part of the heart. Smoked Cocaine can lead to direct lung injury itself (so called crack lung) and death.
Answered 12/31/2018
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Everything is faster: It can even kill you. It works on the sympathetic system.
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