Cocaine

 

Cocaine & Crack/Rocks!

 

Street names.

 

Coke, Crack, Flake, Rocks, Gram’s, Snow and Sniff.

 

Cocaine and crack cocaine can be taken orally, through the nose (snorted), injected with a syringe or, in the case of crack, through inhalation of the fumes from heating it.

 

The word cocaine refers to the drug in powder form and the word crack refers to the drug in crystal form.

 

Next to Crystal-Meth, Cocaine creates the greatest psychological dependence of any drugs.

 

Short term effects!

 

1.     It causes a short-lived intense high that immediately followed by the opposite- intense feeling of depression and edginess and craving for more.

2.     Now appetite.

3.     Sever sleeplessness.

4.     Greatly increased heart rate.

5.     Muscle spasms.

6.     Convulsions.

7.     This drug can make people feel paranoid, angry, hostile and anxious, even when they aren’t high.

 

 

Long term effects!

 

In addition to those effects already mentioned, cocaine causes irritability, mood disturbances, restlessness, severe paranoia and auditory hallucinations.

 

Coming down from this drug causes severe depression, which becomes deeper and deeper after each use. Users will do any thing to get the drug. Even commit murder. And if he or she can’t get cocaine, the depression can get so intense that it can drive the addict to suicide.