Cocaine

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Cocaine

How is it made?

Sometimes the drug is made into a vapour or smoke that can also speed up absorbtion.

It is sniffed, rubbed on the persons gums or ingested. To get high faster some users will inject the drug right into their veins.

It is often combined with other powders such as talcum powder, sugar, corn starch, or even other drugs.

The drug is extracted from coca leaves. It was originally invented as a pain killer quickly became a recreational drug people use.

Side effects

Long-term effects

Severe addicition

Increased frequency of risky behaviour.

Irritability and mood disturbances.

Disorientation, apathy, confused exhaustion.

Sexual problems and infertility

Malnutrition, weight loss, severe tooth decay.

Destruction of nasal tissue when sniffed, respiratory failure when smoked, infectious diseases or abscesses when injected.

Liver, kidney, and lung damage.

High blood pressure, leading to heart attacks strokes and death.

Permanent damage to blood vessels of heart and brain.

Short-term effects

Convulsions, seizures, and even sudden death when taking high doses.

Intense drug craving, panic, and psychosis.

Intense euphoria, paranoia, anxiety, depression.

Often times users will experience hallucinations that create the illusion of bugs burrowing under the skin.

Hallucinations, hyper-excitability, irritability.

Hyper-stimulation, bizarre erratic, sometimes violent behaviour.

Disturbed sleep patterns, nausea.

Dilated pupils.

Contracted blood vessels, increased rate of breathing.

Increased heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure.

Loss of appetite.

What is it?

Cocaine is a multi-billion dollar enterprise across the world. People of all ages use this highly harmful drug.

It stimulates the mental and physical parts of a person. Physically it stimulates the nerve endings of a person. Mentally it stimulates the brain and creates and sense of euphoria.

Once people start using the drug it is highly addictive.

Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs in the world.

It is a drug in the form of powder or crystal.