Cocaine 

WHAT IS IT?

Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug. The powdered form of cocaine is either snorted or injected. Crack is concine that comes in a rock crystal that is heated and smoked. The term "crack" refers to the crackling sound produced by the rock as it is heated.

 

Many cocaine users report that they seek but fail to achieve the same experience as they had with their first use. Some users will increase their dose in an attempt to intensify and prolong the effect, but this can also increase the risk of adverse psychological of physiological effects.

 

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES

Cocaine can kill you the very first time you use it.

Cocaine and crack cocaine are highly addictive.

Regualar cocaine and crack users can become paranoid.

Regularly snorting cocaine can lead to the loss of sense of smell, problems with swallowing,  hoarseness, and a chronic runny nose.

Cocaine can cause heart attacks even in young abusers.

 

Street Lingo

-Coke -Snowflake -Flake -Blow -Nose Candy -Snowball -Tornado -Wicky Stick -Perico -Yayo

 

RISKS

-Increased body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure

-headaches

-abdominal pain

-nausea

-Decreased appetite, resulting in malnutrition

-irritability

-restlessness

-anxiety

-paranoia

-Paranoid psychosis (loss of touch with reality and auditory hallucinations)

-Addiction/dependence

-loss of smell

-nosebleeds

-chronically runny nose(from snorting)

-severe bowel gangrene (intestine tissue dies) (from swallowing)

-Increased risk of HIV (from injecting)

-respiratory arrest (stopped breathing)

-heart attack/stroke which may cause sudden death

-COCAINE AND ALCOHOL COMBINED dramatically increases the risk of SUDDEN DEATH

 

Statistics

-Adults 18 to 25 years old have the highest rate of current cocaine use, compared to other age groups.

-Cocaine is the second most commonly used illict drug(following marijuana) in the US. MORE THAN 34 MILLION AMERICANS(14.7%)AGE 12 OR OLDER HAVE USED COCAINE AT LEAST ONCE in their lifetime.

-Up to 75% of people who try cocaine will become addicted to it. Only one out of four people who try to quit will be able to do so without help.

-Cocaine is a $35 BILLION ILLICIT INDUSTRY now exceeding Columbia's top export, coffee.

-EACH DAY 5,000 MORE PEOPLE WILL EXPERIENT WITH COCAINE.

-Cocaine hydrochloride is very stable. It binds closely to the ink in paper currency. FBI CHEMISTS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT TRACES OF COCAINE CAN BE FOUND ON ALMOST EVERY DOLLOAR BILL IN CIRCULATION.

-One in ten workers knowws someone who uses cocaine on the job.

-Texas is a distribution and tran-shipment area for cocaine transported(via passenger vehicles & tractor-trailers) to destinations throughout the nation. Illict transporters favor the exploitation of the commercial trucking industry to move bulk(multi-hundred kilogram) quantities of cocaine. Smaller loads are routinely seized from private vehicles or human couriers utilizing public transportation.

 

Cocaine is a hydrochloride salt, made from the leaf of the coca plant, and comes in the form of a white powder.

 

**MORE INFORMATION**

(some of this may repeat...but it's good to enforce the facts)

 

STREET LINGO:

  • Badrock
  • Bazooka
  • Beam
  • Bernice
  • Big C
  • Blast
  • Blizzard
  • Blow
  • Blunt
  • Bouncing Powder
  • Bump
  • C
  • Cabello
  • Caine
  • Candy
  • Caviar
  • Charlie
  • Chicken Scratch
  • Coca
  • Cocktail
  • Coconut
  • Coke
  • Cola
  • Damablanca
  • Dust
  • Flake
  • Flex
  • Flordia Snow
  • Foo-foo
  • Freeze
  • G-rock
  • Goofball
  • Happy dust
  • Happy powder
  • Happy trails
  • Heaven
  • King
  • Lady
  • Lady Caine
  • Late night
  • Line
  • Mama Coca
  • Marching dust/powder
  • Mojo
  • Monster
  • Mujer
  • Nieve
  • Nose
  • Nose Candy
  • P-dogs
  • Peruvian
  • Powder
  • Press
  • Prime-time
  • Rush
  • Shot
  • Sleighride
  • Sniff
  • Snort
  • Snow
  • Snowbirds
  • Soda
  • Speedball
  • Sporting
  • Stardust
  • Sugar
  • Sweet Stuff
  • Toke
  • Trails
  • White Lday
  • White powder
  • Yeyo
  • Zip

MORE INFO

  • Cocaine is the most potent stimulant of natural orgin--a powerfully addictive stimulant that directly affects the brain
  • Cocaine has been labeled the drug of the 1980s and 90s because of its etensive popularity during that time
  • Cocaine is not a new drug, actually, it is one of the oldest KNOWN drugs
  • Cocaine Hydrochloride, has been an abused substance for more than 100 years
  • Coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca, indigenous to the Andean highlands of South America), the sources of cocaine, have been injested for 1000s of years.
  • Addiction studies have shown that laboratory rats will choose cocaine over food and water.
  • Rats will also take huge electric shocks or press a lever over 10,000 times to get a dose of cocaine. Left on their own, they will inject themselves to death.
  • Much like the rat the human addict will do anything to get coke once they become addicted to it.
  • Humans empty their bank accounts, sell their possessions, commit crimes, sell their bodies, and betray their loved ones.
  • Coke is HIGHLY ADDICTIVE, you CANNOT use coke and not get addicted. "IF YOU'RE USING COKE AND YOU'RE NOT ADDICTED, YOU'RE JUST NOT ADDICTED YET."

 

HOW IS IT USED?

  • Snorting: inhaling cocaine powder through the nose where it's absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues
  • Injecting: using a needle to release the drug directly into the bloodstream
  • Smoking: (crack-cocaine,which is the smokeable form of coke)-involves inhaling crack-cocaine vapor or smoke into the lungs, where it's absorbed into the bloodstream as quickly as if you injected it
  • The duration of cocain'es immediate euporic effects depends upon the route of administration. The faster the absorption the more intense the high.
  • The faster the absorption, the shorter the duration of action.
  • The high from snorting is relatively slow in onset, and may last 15-30min., while that from smoking it may last 5-10min.

STATISTICS

  • 1 out of 4 Americans between the age of 26 and 34 have used cocaine in their lifetime
  • According to the Minnesota Institute for Public Health and drug prevention resource center 5,000 adults in the US try cocaine for the first time each day. (1985)
  • Today it is estimated that 22 to 25 MILLION people have tried cocaine at least once. Conservative estimates indicate that there are over 2 MILLION cocaine addicts in the US today.
  • Contrary to earlier belief high dose use of cocaine can be detected as long as 22 days AFTER the last use.
  • Nearly half of all drug related emergency room visits are due to cocaine abuse.
  • The annual number of new cocaine users had generally increased over time.
  • In 1975 there were 30,000 new users.
  • In 1986 the number of new users was 300,000.
  • In 2000 the number of new users was 361,000.
  • Rates of cocaine use by COLLEGE STUDENTS over the previous 5 years has varied between 2.0% of all students in 1994 to 4.8% in 2000.
  • Of high school SENIORS in 2001, 8.2% reported having ever used cocaine.
  • From 1997 to 2000 cocaine was the most common drug reported in emergency room episodes.
  • Cocaine use among men is almost TWICE more than women.
  • Based upon additional data sources, the office of National Drug Control Policy(NDCP) estimates the number of chronic cocaine users at 3.6 MILLION.
  • Adults 18 to 25 years of age currently have the highest percentage of cocaine use than any other age group.
  • 90% of cocaine users SMOKED, DRANK, or USED MARIJUANA before trying cocaine.
  • In 1988, about 300,000 infants were born addicted to cocaine.

COCAINE TREND STATISTICS ACROSS THE US:

**cocaine trends across the US are indicators of the RATE of cocaine ABUSE, cocaine ADDICTION, domestic violence, and child abuse. The cocaine trends for each state has DIRECT correlation to the AMOUNT of cocaine SEIZED by federal authorities. Below are the federal cocaine SEIZURES for each INDIVIDUAL STATE. These statistics for each state's federal cocaine SEIZURES provides current information on which states have the LARGEST cocaine TRAFFICING problems**

  • Alabama Federal Cocaine Seizures: 357.9 kgs
  • Arizona " " ": 3,345.7 kgs
  • Arkansas " " ": 18.9 kgs
  • California " " ": 6,232.7 kgs
  • Colorado " " ": 206 kgs
  • Connecticut " " ": 24.5
  • Delaware " " ": 15.5 kgs
  • Florida " " ": 7.358.4 kgs
  • Georgia " " ": 967.6 kgs
  • Idaho " " ": 1.0 kgs
  • Illinois " " ": 7.259.4 kgs
  • Indiana " " ": 61.7 kgs
  • Iowa " " ": 2.1 kgs
  • Kansas " " ": 305.5 kgs
  • Kentucky " " ": 63.9 kgs
  • Louisiana " " ": 605.0 kgs
  • Maine " " ": 0 kgs
  • Maryland " " ": 388.3 kgs
  • Massachusetts " " ": 123.6 kgs
  • Michigan " " ": 537.6 kgs
  • Minnesota " " ": 31.8 kgs
  • Mississippi " " ": 82.1 kgs
  • Missouri " " ": 1,581.8 kgs
  • Montana " " ": 0.6 kgs
  • Nebraska " " ": 429.7 kgs
  • Nevada " " ": 13.0 kgs
  • New Hampshire " " ": 3.7 kgs
  • New Jersey " " ": 1,291.4 kgs
  • New Mexico " " ": 374.0 kgs
  • New York " " ": 3,861.0 kgs
  • North Carolina " " ": 164.5 kgs
  • North Dakota " " ": 0 kgs
  • Ohio " " ": 343.3 kgs
  • Oklahoma " " ": 51.3 kgs
  • Oregon " " ": 46.9 kgs
  • Pennsylvania " " ": 133.1 kgs
  • Rhode Island " " ": 31.9 kgs
  • South Carolina " " ": 126.8 kgs
  • South Dakota " " ": 0 kgs
  • Tennessee " " ": 484.2 kgs
  • Texas " " ": 15,192.9 kgs
  • Utah " " ": 23.9 kgs
  • Vermont " " ": 3.7 kgs
  • Virginia " " ": 82.1 kgs
  • Washington " " ": 174.2 kgs
  • West Virginia " " ": 8.2 kgs
  • Wisconsin " " ": 68.3 kgs
  • Wyoming " " ": 8.1 kgs

 

What does it look like? ---->cocaine powder 

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