Crack Cocaine

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What is your drug and what does it look like?

• Crack cocaine• Crystal form of cocaine(powder form)• Yellow, pale rose, white• The most powerful form of cocaine• Riskiest• 75%~100% pure for stronger and more potent

What are the effects?

Short-term effects• increased blood pressure• breathing difficulties• paranoid thinking• Hallucinations• Nausea• Panic• Psychosis• dilated pupils• increased body temperature• hyper stimulation• intense drug craving• Bizarre• Stimulates key pleasure centers within the

brain and causes extremely heightened euphoria

Long-term effects• Depression• Violent behaviors• Sleep deprivation• Loss of appetite• Coughing• Shortness of breath• Lung damage• Chest pains• Tooth decay• Weight loss• Tolerance addiction• Disorientation• Muscle spasms• Delirium• Lose interest in other areas of life

How is it used?

• Heated(makes cracking or popping sound)• Smoked(addiction develop faster)• Snorted

Is this drug legal?

• 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past in Atlanta, Georgia.

Work Cited• http://

www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/crackcocaine/why-is-crack-cocaine-so-highly-addictive.html

• http://www.mnprc.org/resources/fact-sheets/nida-infofacts-cocaine• http://rationalphilosophy.net/index.php/tag/crack-cocaine• http://www.drugaddictiontreatment.ca/crack-cocaine-a-white-collar-drug/• http://

abcnews.go.com/US/1900-crack-cocaine-users-dealers-prison-early/story?id=14875393

• http://narcotic.net/crack-cocaine• http://www.citypoop.com/2012/01/the-economics-of-activity-that-is-illegal/• http://www.graffiti.org/ireland/ireland_8.html• http://

www.fanpop.com/clubs/eyes/images/14801295/title/rainbow-eye-2-photo• http://hoffman.photoshelter.com/image/I0000AVbFy0xvrrI