Cocaine is a powerful stimulant drug affecting the central nervous system, speeding up communication between the brain and body. Its use leads to increased happiness, heightened sex drive, and reduced appetite, but also raises blood pressure and heart rate.
Increased happiness, sex drive, reduced appetite, indifference to pain, high blood pressure and heart rate.
Body
Enlarged pupils, dry mouth, bloody nose.
How it Works
Cocaine enters your brain and intercepts dopamine transporters. This stops dopamine transport and causes a builduip of dopamine in the brain causing the "good" feeling.
Laws
Cocaine is a federally illegal drug in all 50 states and all countries.
Classification
Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
Administration
Cocaine hydrochloride is most commonly snorted. It can also be injected, rubbed into the gums, added to drinks or food.
Freebase and crack cocaine are usually smoked.
Indigenous people of South America have traditionally chewed the leaves of the coca bush, or brewed them as a tea, for use as a stimulant or appetite suppressant.
Forms
Crack
Crystals ranging in colour from white or cream to transparent with a pink or yellow hue, it may contain impurities
Freebase
A white powder that is more pure with less impurity than cocaine hydrochloride.
Cocaine hydrochloride
A white, crystalline powder with a bitter, numbing taste
