The possible short-term effects of cocaine are :
- loss of appetite
- faster breathing
- raised heart rate
- raised blood pressure
- an increase in body temperature which leads to sweating
- dilated pupils
- strange, erratic, at times violent behavior.
- hallucinations
- talkativeness
- a sense of power and superiority;
- restlessness
- hyper-excitability
- irritability which can lead to anxiety and paranoid psychosis (which disappears if use of the drug is discontinued).