Can taking cocaine a few times change someone's personality?

[ljo]

A few months ago, I started going out with someone who seemed perfect - funny, considerate, loving, etc. However, after five weeks of bliss, he went home on leave (he's in the army), and he came back a changed person. He's incredibly moody, depressed, selfish, unreasonable - he's just become a complete monster.Before joining the army, he used to take a lot of cocaine, and I thought, stupidly, being in the army would have stopped him doing this, but apparently, he did it a few times while he was on leave. Even if he only did it a few times, would that be enough to change his personality to such a huge extent? I'm so sad that someone who seemed so lovely has become so horrible. But if it isn't the coke which has made him lke this, maybe it's me!

[Little Lady]

I used to have a mate who decided to dabble in the stuff and she became very arrogant and up of herself i soon ditched her as if it changes a person its blatantly not good stuff, she used to get irritable etc so i just told her one day to get a life.

She seemed to value drugs more than her life which is a very sad thing...

[butterfly76]

From what I know dabbling in a small amount of charlie just a few times in your life will not change your personality for good. However a few days after taking it you do become very moody and short tempered.So really while taking it and a few days after taking it the person will seem different. It does take a quite a few days to completely recover after taking it.

[spammylou]

it is NOT you. Do not doubt yourself. Coke is evil, makes normally lovely people turn into monsters after constant use. Signs of dependency are:-

Money disappearing quickly, lack of appetite, irritability, depression, aggresiveness,  disappearing for ages, constant sniffing, stealing, lying. 

This will be difficult for you maybe to contemplate but if things are affecting you to the point where you are checking up on him, making excuses for him not turning up to work/letting people down, lending him money etc etc, - then you must call it a day for your own sanity and for him to wake up. You cannot make him kick it, he has to want to. If you split up, and he continues doing it, you can do nothing. If you split up and he stops, and you know for definite, you might be able to get back together. But don't be sucked into it to the point where it makes you ill.  Why do I say all this? cos I was married to someone who became addicted and it was a long and horrible time in my life.  Only he can save himself.   

[robbieh]

Taking it a few times? no thats just ridiculous

[Mrs_Pegasus]

The army random test on a regular basis.  I am amazed this man would risk his career, unless of course he isnt that serious about it and may be looking for a way out.  The law of averages is that he will be found out and he will be dealt with pretty severely. 

(Army wife)

[El D]

cocaine passes through the system very quickly.

[becks]

I would seriously doubt it was "just a few times" when you're doing it it's impossible to stop - it's very hard to just do one line and think yeah that's enough, you always want another one. And no it's not ridiculous to think he could become  different person, that's exactly what coke does - an i know from experience. Like little lady says it makes you arrogant and over confident, it made me a horrible person and my ex even worse - a total a*hole, apparently he's normal now (married with children etc) and i'm pretty sure it's the drugs that made him how he was with me. Get shot of him, coke heads go one way or the other - on a slippery slope all the way down or get bored after a few months and realise there are better things to spend money on. What your other half needs to work out, and sharpish is that it's not only his relationship with you in danger but his whole career. None of this is down to you, to a coke head, that's the most important thing, or give him a choice - give up the gear of give up me - and if he chooses the drugs let him get on with it, you're best off out of it. Good luck.

[robbieh]

And i know from experience that a few times is ridiculous. And i also know frm experience that after having one line its very easy to say no to another.

[helster]

cocaine turns perfectly normal poeple into selfish w*nkers. sorry, it's a fact. x

[robbieh]

Its a fact is it? Taking coke A FEW TIMES as was asked in the question - no it doesn't make people selfish *******, thats NOT FACT lol. With extended use and abuse it can do, as with alcohol and many other drugs. But not in every case and in lots of cases I know that it hasn't, just a few. But as was asked in question, a few times, NO not unless someone has a very weak personality.

[popadoodle]

How do you know it's only a few times?

Cocaine definitely changes peoples personalities, have no doubt. One of my friends has been at it for well over ten years.

He has turned into a boring, aggressive dick that nobody wants to know.

He has become violent, to a degree, and can not be spoken to. He knows everything. Doesn't need help.

It's very sad to watch and it would appear the addict has no idea at all that they may have changed, their behavior all seems totally logical, to them.

It is the devils own drug.