Other known mechanisms of cardiotoxicity, include cocaine’s blockage of sodium channels and a subsequent increase in calcium flux and a vasoconstrictor response . Ischemia is suggested as the main mechanism of acute damage responsible for various clinical presentations . While smoking crack or sniffing cocaine, there is a vast accumulation of the drug in the heart affecting myocardial tissue directly…

Experts say your chances are much higher after consuming 3 or more alcoholic drinks.1 The more you drink, the more your risk of a seizure rises. So is it safe to drink alcohol when you have epilepsy? Following this stage of the seizure, the person will convulse uncontrollably. Alcohol affects the brain in many ways over the short and long…