Cocaine Ben, Chris, and Jacky
Dec 28, 2015
Cocaine
Ben, Chris, and Jacky
What is it?
• Cocaine is extracted from cocoa leaves and was developed as a pain killer.
• It is sniffed or snorted as a powder.
Common Street Names
• Coke• Charlie• Aunt Nora• Bernice• Binge• Blow • C• Dust• Flake• Mojo• Nose Candy
• Paradise
• Sneeze
• Sniff
• Snow
• Toot
• White
How it Enters the Body
• Snorted/ sniffed in powder form
• Injected (goes right to your blood stream)
• Smoked in a rock or crystallized form
History
• Used to be a medicine prescribed by doctors for colds and as pain killers.
• One of the oldest, most potent, and dangerous stimulants of natural origins.
• Used to be used in the production of Coca-Cola.
History• Austrian
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who used cocaine himself, was the first to openly promote cocaine as a cure to depression as well as sexual impotence.
Statistics
• Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world
• In 15-34 year olds about 7.5 million people have used cocaine at least once
• 3.5 million have used it in the last year
• 1.5 million used it in the last month
Statistics cont.
• 8.5% of 12th graders have used cocaine at some point in their lives
• 448,481 emergency department visits were made in 2005 related to cocaine
• In people ages 18-25 the usage rate of cocaine was 6.9%
• 35.3% of people aged 12 and older have used cocain
Short Term Effects
• Stimulates key pleasure centers in the brain and simulates extreme euphoria
• Tolerance quickly develops
• Short lived high
• Edginess
• Intense depression
• Increased heart rate
Short Term Effects cont.
• Muscle spasms
• Even when your not high you feel angry, hostile and anxious
Long Term Effects
• Because a tolerance develops you need more of the drug to get the same effect
• Prolonged daily use leads to sleep deprivation as well as loss of appetite
• Users often become psychotic and tend to hallucinate
• Permanent damage to blood vessels
Long Term Effects cont.
• High blood pressure
• Liver, kidney and lung damage
• Destruction of nose tissue
How people become addicted…
• Babies can be born addicted from addicted parents, i.e. Crack babies
• People believe it improves work
• Believed to improve focus
• Peer pressure
• People crave better highs after doing other gateway drugs
Fun and Interesting Facts ;D• Ancient Incas chewed Coco
leaves to receive a high• Native Peruvians chewed
Coco leaves during religious ceremonies
• Prescribed regularly by doctors
• Matt Farley died of Cocaine overdose
• Marilyn Monroe used Coke