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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
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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