How To Help Someone With a Crack Addiction

If your loved one is using crack cocaine, you are probably wondering how you can get them to help in order to get sober. Addiction is a difficult disease and crack is a challenging addiction to beat. Stimulants can have a devastating effect on the body, but it can be done. 

Learn the facts and how to help your loved one. 

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What Is Crack?

Crack is a form of cocaine. It is made by dissolving cocaine in water and baking soda and boiling it until a hard substance is formed. This “rock” is crack cocaine and is often white or off-white in color. Crack is most commonly smoked-making dependence and addiction much more likely and occurs much quicker.

Crack cocaine can cause “constricted blood vessels; increased temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure; and risk of cardiac arrest and seizure, crack users may experience acute respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, and lung trauma and bleeding. Crack cocaine smoking also can cause aggressive and paranoid behavior.”

An individual overdosing on crack may demonstrate the following symptoms: 

  • Seizures
  • Loss of awareness of surroundings
  • Loss of urine control
  • High body temperature, severe sweating
  • High blood pressure, 
  • Elevated heart rate or irregular heart rhythm
  • Bluish color of the skin
  • Fast or difficulty breathing
  • Death

As a stimulant, individuals can overdose on crack. Studies have also shown that individuals who use crack cocaine are just as likely to overdose as to be a victim of homicide or die from HIV infection.

How To Help Someone With a Crack Addiction

How To Help Someone With a Crack Addiction

Individuals struggling with a crack addiction can experience bouts of paranoia, hallucinations, and even psychosis. This makes them a danger to themselves and others. 

The first way to help someone with a crack addiction is to identify a treatment center or center that can support them through detoxification and rehabilitation. A dual-purpose center can start treatment immediately while making sure they are safe through the detox and withdrawal process. Treatment centers like Findlay Recovery, offer both detox and treatment to ensure that clients can move seamlessly from one stage to the next. 

The second way to help someone with a crack addiction is to create boundaries and provide information about the treatment locations you’ve researched. This type of intervention can be done by you and a small group of loved ones or with a medical professional. If you feel your loved one may react in a violent way, having a doctor recommend treatment may be a safer choice. But, if you choose to do it, set boundaries for your loved ones that prevent you from enabling them and provide them with the information for the rehabilitation centers.  

If your loved one needs help today, contact Findlay Recovery Center. We can often support same-day availability and treatment for those in need. 

Findlay Recovery Center

At Findlay Recovery Center we offer affordable drug and alcohol treatment for individuals struggling with addiction. Our new facility offers tailor-made treatments to combat substance abuse and help individuals regain their independence. Included with our intensive aftercare planning, clients who graduate from Findlay, have access to a lifetime of alumni community support. 

Our mission is to help those struggling with addiction find a path to recovery at our treatment center. We do this by providing holistic healing treatment options so that clients can experience physical, mental, and emotional healing. 

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