DALLAS – American Heart Association founds cocaine users will experience heart attack symptoms such as chest pain. The doctors said that younger ER patients having heart attack symptoms should admit whether they’ve recently used cocaine, which can cause similar symptom. Being honest can only save the lives of these patients. Certain heart attack treatments can be lethal to cocaine users.

Use of cocaine can cause anxiety, chest pain, and dizziness, shortness of breath, shivering, excessive sweating and nausea which are also the symptoms of heart attack.

“Not knowing the exact cause for the symptom and giving the wrong treatments could cause death,” said Dr. James Reiffel, the professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.

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