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Grim Video Shows The Damage Cocaine Abuse Does To The Heart

Grim Video Shows The Damage Cocaine Abuse Does To The Heart

*WARNING: Graphic content.*

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

Featured image credit: Medspiration/PA

There's no doubting that cocaine abuse can do some serious harm to your body, and a gruesome video showing what a heart looks like after excessive use of the drug outlines just how bad it can be.

The video, which isn't for the squeamish, shows a heart at three times its normal size after it was removed from a patient who used the class A drug for 15 years.

Medspiration posted the video on Instagram, and said that the heart continued to beat for 25 minutes - a lot longer than the 60 seconds it normally takes a heart to stop beating and lose oxygen.

Credit: Medspiration

"First of all, make no mistake, this heart is not beating in a coordinated fashion. It wouldn't support life," Dr Klaus Witte, a consultant cardiologist at Leeds General Infirmary, told the MailOnline. "This heart, it's not beating. Those are not normal contractions. It's twitching in a desperate way."

After years on the Charlie, you'd expect it to have quite a big effect on your vital organs. Watching this is definitely going to make people think twice about snorting the Bolivian marching powder.

Users of the drug will usually find their blood pressure higher, and have stiffer arteries and thicker heart muscle walls, which all contribute towards heart attacks.

Be smart lads, don't do drugs.

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