{"id":3269,"date":"2010-01-14T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T10:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2010-01-14T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T10:40:43","slug":"cocaine-not-a-safe-party-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/cocaine-not-a-safe-party-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn, Cocaine not a &#8220;safe party drug&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3272\" title=\"cocaine_user\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cocaine_user-304x281-custom.jpg\" alt=\"cocaine_user\" width=\"304\" height=\"281\" \/>A recent study shows that cocaine is linked to 3% of sudden deaths according to a report published in the European Heart Journal.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2>Experts say that the report proves that the effects of cocaine should not be taken lightly as many young adults see it as a &#8220;safe party drug&#8221;.<\/h2>\n<p>The data published by the European Heart Journal primarily came from south-west Spain. However experts are saying that this data refers to Europe as a whole and not just a portion of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>They said anyone could suffer the deadly consequences of taking cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Fotini Rozakeas of the British Heart Foundation said: &#8220;The reality is that there are risks every time you use it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cocaine can have devastating effects on the user including heart attacks, life-threatening heart rhythms, strokes and even sudden death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The potential deadly consequences from cocaine use can happen to anyone who takes it, even in previously young healthy people with no history of heart disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the study, 21 out of 668 sudden deaths were related to cocaine use and all of these occurred in men aged between 21 and 45.<\/p>\n<p>Most involved problems with the heart and the majority of the men were also smokers and had been drinking alcohol at the same time as taking cocaine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study shows that cocaine is linked to 3% of sudden deaths according to a report published in the European Heart Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,17,107,118],"tags":[4263,4264,4267,4266,4265],"class_list":["post-3269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-europe","category-health","category-hot","tag-cocaine","tag-cocaine-not-a-safe-party-drug","tag-cocaine-party-drug","tag-consequences-of-taking-cocaine","tag-european-heart-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}