Cocaine

Street Names: Powder cocaine commonly called: blow, nose candy or snow on the streets.

Description: Cocaine is usually found as a white or off-white powder, packaged loosely or in bricks.

Derivation: Cocaine is derived from the leaves of erythroxylon (cocoa) plants found in South America.

Use: People use powder cocaine by either snorting it or dissolving it and injecting the cocaine with a needle. 

At first, cocaine causes users to feel powerful and energetic. This feeling soon wears off and the user begins to come down whereby they feel depressed and edgy. The user then craves more cocaine to get that powerful, energetic high back

Effects: Cocaine is extremely addictive and dangerous. Cocaine will harm your body and your life. Cocaine can cause you to react violently or carelessly. People high on cocaine often crash their cars, fall, drown or burn themselves. Cocaine causes an increase in users’ heart rates and frequently results in heart attacks, among young users as well as old. Other effects include elevated blood pressure, talkativeness, nervousness, irritability, argumentativeness, dilated pupils, loss of coordination, perspiration, abdominal pains, elevated body temperature, convulsions and death. Some users engage in strange repetitive actions, such as doodling or picking at their skin to get the feeling of bugs out. People often spend all their money to buy cocaine and engage in crime when the money is gone. They will do almost anything to get more cocaine. Using cocaine hurts everyone - the user, the user’s family and all those around the user. Cocaine users usually end up alone, in prison or dead.

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