KillahBee said:
coke more addictive than nicotine? for real? from what I can remember, coke is not even in the top 5. I know caffeine was head of it. (from what I can remember means from what I learned in 8th grade DARE class
it has to do with the method of adminsitration.
The linings of the lungs are the fastest way to get a substance into the bloodstream. The speed at which a substance hits the brain is related to enhancing its addictive properties. This is why crack is more addictive than powdered cocaine; it hits the blood 25% faster.
Nicotine gets in the same way, so its already addctive properties are enhanced.
Killah, are you taking the word of a textbook publisher? the same people who told you Whitey and the Indians shook hands and ate turkey? mothafucka please. Or is this the DARE cop...the fat donut eating bitch they take off the line and give index cards to....to scare kids off drugs?
Cocaine does this - floods the brain with dopamine. No biggie, so does an orgasm, even chocolate. Difference is, cocaine prevents dopamine reuptake. Brain can;t clean it. You stay high. Feels good, doesn;t it?
OK, so does Ecstasy. But the difference is, coke deadens the sensitivity to anything OTHER THAN coke to achieve dopamine surges. So orgasms and chocolate aren't going to do it anymore...in fact, NOTHING is, except cocaine.
That's why it is so destructive.