Cocaine - once known as the caviar of street drugs - is causing an increasing number of sudden deaths and heart attacks in Ireland, a leading cardiologist warned yesterday.
Dr Brian Maurer of the Mater Hospital said that cocaine, which travels through the blood, was well known to have negative effects on the heart.
The drug increases heart rate and blood pressure, while constricting the arteries supplying blood to the heart, he explained.
Source: Eilish O'Regan, The Independent, 11/12/2010
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