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 Capo by the Sea is located in the beautiful beach resort city of Dana Point, about an hour south of Los Angeles. |
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 Dana Point offers a wealth of relaxing and enjoyable—and stress relieving—activities, including tennis, golf, deep-sea fishing, jet skis, surfing and sailing. |
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Cocaine produces false and artificial feelings of
pleasure. Most addictive drugs are able to produce
pleasurable effects by chemically mimicking normal
brain messenger chemicals which produce positive
feelings in response to signals from the brain.
The result is a dependence on the immediate, fast, and
predictable drug which, at the same time, short
circuits your true interests and the motivation to
make life work. More and more confidence is placed in
the drug while other survival feelings are ignored and
bypassed.
Stimulants mimic the action of chemicals your brain
produces to send messages of pleasure to your brain's
reward center. Cocaine constricts blood vessels,
dilates pupils, releases sugar and fat into your blood
stream, and energizes the brain to increased
alertness. Similar to adrenaline, cocaine increases
your heart rate, blood pressure, and your breathing
rate. The severity and length of the cocaine
withdrawal symptoms vary with the amount of damage
done to your normal reward system through cocaine use
and the rate of recovery. The most common symptoms
are: drug craving, irritability, loss of energy,
depression, fearfulness, wanting to sleep a lot, or,
difficulty in sleeping, shaking, nausea, palpitations,
sweating, hyperventilation, and increased appetite.
These symptoms can last several weeks after you stop
using cocaine.
Stimulants like cocaine increase feelings of anger or
fear, or agitation, as well as feelings of well-being,
riding high, exhilaration or euphoria. When the
stimulation goes too high, it produces feelings of
panic, paranoia, hallucinations and rage which can
progress to potentially fatal seizures and stroke. The
brain becomes depressed by the local anesthetic
effects, and coma and death can occur.
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