Oh irony: the hip people who do everything they can to keep their youth and also using cocaine are bad luck. Cocaine use speeds up the aging process of your DNA and so you age faster.
Cocaine is one of the most addictive substances known to man. It disrupts the brain’s reward pathways and forces the cells to keep producing pleasurable signals until the drug wears off.
But exactly how coke, which disrupts the connections between brain cells, triggers addictive behaviors that in turn manifest in substance abuse is a series of events that researchers are still trying to understand.
Until now, we only knew from studies with mice that cocaine use accelerates aging. A new study of human brain tissue obtained post-mortem again found the same thing: cocaine users have many more characteristics of molecular aging in their brains than non-user peers.
Cocaine contributes to a flashy life. In all perspectives.