Feeling of Euphoria

Because cocaine is a stimulent, much like caffeine or nicotine, in induces a specific feeling of gratification and a sensation that you have achieved success. This feeling, often tremendously memorable, can make you feel powerful and sexy. It can even give you the feeling that you are flawless or perfect.

Because cocaine is a stimulant, it also acts intensely with stimulants that surround you. Every new thing that you see, every unfamiliar sequence you are exposed to, the higher you often become.

Many repeat indulgers chase the first intense euphoria they experience with blow. This does not just mean that they wish on a daily or frequent basis for more cocaine, but that they 'go back for more' and do however many lines of coke every 20-140 minutes. “Chasing the high” is the action which the user seeks to induce the pleasurable ecstasy of cocaine over and over again.

Some descriptions of euphoric feelings from indulgers and addicts:

• An entrance into climaxing bliss
• A paradise-like dreamland in which everything you see and feel you like
• Overcoming ecstasy like a frenzy
• Overwhelming elation, exaltation, exhilaration and exultation
• Absolute glee
• A feeling of perfect health or invincibility
• High spirits
• An incredible appreciation for the fact that you are intoxicated
• Joy or joyousness, jubilation
• Happy madness like rapture
• A relaxation from stress and an emergence into a void of self confidence and high body image.

The climax of Euphoria typically occurs 4-9 minutes after use. For some it can be as long as 14 minutes, but the average is 6. 

A far more scientific and neurological analysis of the cocaine euphoria is below. It is from well-known and highly published biologist Melissa Hoegler.  

When a person takes cocaine, it causes a rush. There is between one or two minutes of intense pleasure. This is followed by five to 8 minutes of euphoria, then as the high comes down, an overwhelming urge for more, which may last for a day. When a user is between cocaine doses or halts usage, the opposite effects occur. Cocaine is attractive to users because it triggers dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is present in many regions of the brain. In normal mice, the introduction of cocaine increases dopamine by 150 percent. Dopamine regulates movement, emotion, motivation, and the feeling of pleasure. In a normal brain, dopamine is released by a neuron into a synapse and then it moves to dopamine receptors on other neurons. It is then moved back to the neuron that transmitted the dopamine initially. When cocaine enters the area of the brain where the dopamine is located, it blocks the reuptake pumps that remove the dopamine from the synapse of the nerve cell. Thus, more dopamine gathers at the synapse and feelings of intense pleasure result. This feeling continues until cocaine is naturally removed from the system. Research findings by the National Institute of Drug Addiction (NIDA) demonstrate that cocaine not only effects the level of dopamine in the brain, but also the level of seratonin. In a study using mice without dopamine transporters, the mice were given cocaine and they still experienced rewarding effects. This was obvious because the animals kept on attempting to get or self-administer more. These researchers speculate that more than one neurotransmitter is responsible for the pleasurable feeling cocaine yields  Although main hypothesis as to why cocaine is so pleasurable, is that it alters levels of dopamine, norepinephrine, and seratonin, some scientists report that cocaine effects approximately 90 different parts of the brain, not just the two main regions of the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens. However, it is interesting that it is these two regions of the brain that remain active after the cocaine has left the system, and the powerful, uncontrollable desire for the drug has set in.