How Does Long Term Cocaine Use Effect the Brain?

Published January 15, 2014

Question by Anonymous: How does long term cocaine use effect the brain?
I was wondering how it would effect a person in the long run if they used cocain heavily and stopped, would their be any lasting effects from the drug abuse or not?
What I mean by that is what are the effects of it, symptoms of brain damage from cocaine use

Best answer:

Answer by JustDance(-:
yeah it would be forever
pretty much ANY damage done to the brain is permanent
it’s sad seeing once such smart people change so drastically

Answer by MMUAI
Undetermined. But Dopamine gets lost.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19970901-000033.html

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