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Don't do drugs kids :)

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Cocaine is a highly addictive drug that ups your levels of alertness, attention, and energy. You may hear it called a stimulant. It's made from the coca plant, which is native to South America. It's illegal in the U.S. Other names for it include:

It comes in a few different forms. The most common is a fine, white powder. It can also be made into a solid rock crystal.

Most cocaine users snort the white powder into their nose. Some rub it onto their gums or dissolve it in water and inject it with a needle. Others heat up the rock crystal and breathe the smoke into their lungs.

How It Works

The drug sends high levels of dopamine, a natural chemical messenger in your body, into the parts of your brain that control pleasure. This buildup causes intense feelings of energy and alertness called a high.

Other short-term effects of cocaine may include:

Extreme sensitivity to touch, sound, and sight

Intense happiness

Anger/irritability

Decreased appetite

People who use cocaine often may also have more serious side effects and health problems, like:

You may have strong cravings for the drug and the high it brings. But the more you use cocaine, the more your brain will adapt to it. You'll need a stronger dose to feel the same high. This can lead to a dangerous addiction or overdose.

Stronger, more frequent doses can also cause long-term changes in your brain's chemistry. Your body and mind begin to rely on the drug. This can make it harder for you to think, sleep, and recall things from memory. Your reaction time may be slower. And you're at risk for more heart, stomach, and lung problems.

Treatment

Counseling and other types of therapy are the most common treatments for cocaine addiction. You may need to stay in a rehabilitation center (also known as rehab). Sessions with a trained therapist can help you make changes to your behaviors and thought processes. No medicines are approved to treat cocaine addiction. Learn more about treatment for cocaine addiction.

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Cocaine: How It Works, Effects, and Risks

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Cocaine is a highly addictive drug that ups your levels of alertness, attention, and energy. You may hear it called a stimulant. It's made from the coca plant, which is native to South America. It's illegal in the U.S. Other names for it include: It comes in a few different forms. The most common is a fine, white powder.

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The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form. The powder is usually mixed with substances such as corn starch, talcum powder and/or sugar or other drugs such as procaine (a local anesthetic) or amphetamines.

Extracted from coca leaves, cocaine was originally developed as a painkiller. It is most often sniffed, with the powder absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues. It can also be ingested or rubbed into the gums.

A deadly white Powder

Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man. Once a person begins taking the drug, it has proven almost impossible to become free of its grip physically and mentally. Physically it stimulates key receptors (nerve endings that sense changes in the body) within the brain that, in turn, create a euphoria to which users quickly develop a tolerance. Only higher dosages and more frequent use can bring about the same effect.

Today, cocaine is a worldwide, multibillion-dollar enterprise. Users encompass all ages, occupations and economic levels, even schoolchildren as young as eight years old.

Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack. Children of cocaine-addicted mothers come into the world as addicts themselves. Many suffer birth defects and many other problems.

Despite its dangers, cocaine use continues to increase-likely because users find it so difficult to escape from the first steps taken down the long dark road that leads to addiction.

STREET NAMES

COCAINE Aunt Nora Bernice Binge Blow C Charlie Coke Dust Flake Mojo Nose candy Paradise Sneeze Sniff Snow Toot White

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What is Cocaine? How is it Made? Street Names & Nicknames for Cocaine - Drug-Free World

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The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form. The powder is usually mixed with substances such as corn starch, talcum powder and/or sugar or other drugs such as procaine (a local anesthetic) or amphetamines. Extracted from coca leaves, cocaine was originally developed as a painkiller.

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Cocaine DrugFacts | National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca plant native to South America. Although health care providers can use it for valid medical purposes, such as local anesthesia for some surgeries, recreational cocaine use is illegal. As a street drug, cocaine looks lik…

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It comes in a few different forms. The most common is a fine, white powder. It can also be made into a solid rock crystal.

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Anyone can become addicted to cocaine even after one use

You can die from cocaine even after one use

Powder cocaine is snorted, injected, or swallowed

Crack cocaine is smoked

Crack cocaine tends to be cheaper, faster-acting, and the high lasts for a shorter period of time

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Statistics of teen cocaine use from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) stated in 2014 that nearly 913,000 Americans met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria for dependence or abuse of cocaine and crack. This number is down from the estimated 1.4 million cases in the organization's 2008 report.2 The dramatic decrease in cocaine abuse began in 2009. College students, those between 18 and 25 years old were both the heaviest users in 2008 and the group with the biggest decrease by 2014.

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Coca is one of the oldest, most potent, and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin. Three thousand years before the birth of Christ, ancient Incas in the Andes chewed coca leaves to get their hearts racing and to speed their breathing to counter the effects of living in the thin mountain air. Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann. It was not until the 1880s that it started to be popularized in the medical community.

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The drug sends high levels of dopamine, a natural chemical messenger in your body, into the parts of your brain that control pleasure. This buildup causes intense feelings of energy and alertness called a high. You may have strong cravings for the drug and the high it brings. But the more you use cocaine, the more your brain will adapt to it. You’ll need a stronger dose to feel the same high. This can lead to a dangerous addiction or overdose.

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Short term:

Intense happiness and euphoria

Anger/irritability

Decreased appetite and nausea

Depression, anxiety, and paranoia

Contracted blood vessels

Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature

Hallucinations, hyperexcitability, irritability

Extreme sensitivity to touch, sound, and sight

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Long Term:

Mood problems

Sexual trouble

Lung damage

Severe tooth decay

Tolerance and addiction

Malnutrition, weight loss

Bowel decay if you swallow it

HIV or hepatitis if you inject it

Heart disease, heart attack, and stroke

Destruction of tissues in the nose if snorted

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Extracted from coca leaves, cocaine was originally developed as a painkiller. It is most often sniffed, with the powder absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues. It can also be ingested or rubbed into the gums. The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form. The powder is usually mixed with substances such as corn starch, talcum powder, and/or sugar or other drugs such as procaine (a local anesthetic) or amphetamines.

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CNS stimulant
Local anesthetic

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Benzoylmethylecgonine
("cocaine")

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- Rock
- C or Big C
- Coke
- Dust
- Line
- Nose Candy
- Dice
- Snow Coke
- Speedball
- White Rock
- Toot

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Benzoylmethylecgonine
("Cocaine").

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CNS stimulant
Local anesthetic