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Cocaine is a powerfully addictive central nervous system stimulant that is snorted, injected, or smoked. It is an extraction from the leaves of a coca plant. Cocaine's appearance is white; crystalline powder-like.

Cocaine can be used to comfort peoples emotions.

Slang terms: Base, Big C, Candy Cane, Coke, Flake

What is cocaine?

Cocaine can be ◦ Snorted: Cocaine can be snorted on a clean surface (toilet lid, a

table, or car dash). The user makes two neat lines, using either a credit card or playing card to shape it as thick as a straw, and as long as a pen lid.

◦ Injected: Cocaine is injected directly into the blood stream (veins) and heightens the intensity of its effects.

◦ Smoked: Smoking cocaine involves the user to inhale the cocaine vapor or smoke from a glass pipe, sometimes called a shooter, and then the smoke travels to the lungs.

How does it enter the body?

Cocaine effects appear almost immediately after a single dose. Taken in small amounts, cocaine usually makes you feel euphoric, energetic, talkative, and mentally alert. Your body becomes very alert to 3 senses; sight, sound, and touch. Even if you take small amounts, your need for food and sleep begins to decrease.

Constricted blood vessels, dilated pupils, violent behavior, and increased body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure.

Drug Effects: Short-term

Drug Effects: Long-term

When you are exposed to cocaine for a long period of time, the brain starts to adapt. Your body starts to develop a tolerance for the drug.

Physical effects: Brain damage, heart attacks, psychological problems

Emotional effects: You become anxious, paranoid, mood swings, suicidal, and depressed

Cocaine is a Class A drug If you get caught making, supplying, or

possessing cocaine: 5-10 years in prison and a fine◦ Your punishment depends on the amount of cocaine you

have If you have a previous drug charge, your penalty

will be more severe.

Legal Consequences

1) Above the Influence◦ The Above the Influence organization advertises

that cocaine is bad, and tells teens to stay away from drugs.

◦ On their website, they tell you what cocaine may also be known as, they define what the drug is, they explain the risks the drug could bring, the effects (long-term), and lastly they inform you on how dangerous the drug is.

Media Influences

2)D.A.R.E. ( Drug Abuse Resistance Education)◦ A substance abuse prevention education program

that visits different schools all over the United States

◦ They tell you what other names cocaine may have, give you a definition and description of what cocaine is used for, and they tell you the dangerous effects caused by using cocaine, or any other type of drug

Media Influences

First Step Services LLC◦ 211 E Six Forks Road◦ (919)-833-8899◦ First Steep provides a free substance abuse education

program to families and other interested parties Drug Rehab

◦ 324 South Wilmington Street #221 Raleigh, NC 27601◦ (919)-238-1033◦ Benefits: Drug Rehab Raleigh assesses the

psychological origins of drug abuse. They are able to customize an ideally effective treatment program for each client.

Community Resources

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Between how many years can you be in prison for getting caught with cocaine?

Name two community resources you can go to for help.

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