Ultimately, the emotional baseline, and affective analogue of Absolute Zero, characteristic of post-humanity in its hedonically enriched modes of awareness may be greater than anything we can now grasp. In the meantime, a drug which induces a secular parody of Heaven commonly leads the user into a biological counterpart of Hell . As a rule of thumb, it is profoundly unwise to take crack-cocaine . The brain has evolved a truly vicious set of negative feedback mechanisms. Their functional effect is to stop us from being really happy for long.
Nature is cruelly parsimonious with pleasure.
This involves anxiety, depression , irritability, extreme fatigue and possibly paranoia. Physical health may deteriorate . An intense craving for more cocaine develops. In heavy users, stereotyped compulsive and repetitive patterns of behaviour may occur. The social consequences of heavy cocaine use can be equally unpleasant.