Please describe what happens to your body when you snort cocaine. J.G. Cocaine is a stimulant. It floods the brain with a such a surge of energy and euphoria that people easily succumb to its wiles. Cocaine takes a toll on the body. Sniffing it through the nose can cause the partition between the two nostrils to cave in.
Blood pressure rises while on a cocaine high.
The heart can beat erratically and rapidly. Cocaine can constrict heart arteries so profoundly that no blood gets to the heart muscle. That's a heart attack. Cocaine can cause seizures. It has been linked to strokes.