Thursday, January 6, 2011

Drug Unit: Cocaine

Facts about Cocaine 

Cocaine is an extremely addictive drug. It can be made into a purer form  
called crack. You could become addicted to crack after even one use. 

Even if you take cocaine in small doses, it may infect the lungs and harm  
the brain. You may become violent, have panic attacks, or imagine things  
that aren’t there. 

If you use cocaine often, you may lose interest in your physical  
appearance, friends, sports, hobbies, food, and anything else that does  
not include cocaine. 

Besides the high, you might get several other effects from cocaine:  
restlessness, irritability, sleeplessness, confusion, anxiety, and slurred speech. 

When you come down from a cocaine high—crash—you feel depressed,  
anxious, irritable, suspicious of others, and very tired. 

When you use cocaine—usually by snorting it or smoking it—you get  
a high that comes in a few seconds and lasts a few minutes. Your blood  
pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, and body temperature all go up.  
An overdose can cause death.

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