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Facts About Cocaine
The Truth about Cocaine describes this drug, once the favorite of corporate executives and entertainment personalities, now a deadly street killer.
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Street names for Cocaine:
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Aunt Nora
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C
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Mojo
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Pony
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Toot
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Ball
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Blow
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Dust
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Nose candy
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Sneeze
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Charlie
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Flake
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Paradise white
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Sniff
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Coke
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Ice cube
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Paste
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Snow
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Cocaine and crack cocaine can be taken orally, through the nose
(snorted), intravenously, or, in the case of crack, through inhalation of the fumes from heating it.
The terms used to describe ingestion include chewing, snorting, mainlining or injecting and smoking.
The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder (cocaine) form and a crystal (crack) form. It is made from the coca plant and causes a short-lived intense "high" that is immediately followed by strong feelings of depression, edginess and a craving for more.
Short-term Effects:
Cocaine causes a short-lived intense "high" that is immediately followed by the opposite — intense feelings of depression and edginess and a craving for more of the drug. People who use it often don't eat or sleep properly. They can experience greatly increased heart rate, muscle spasms and convulsions. The drug can make people feel paranoid, angry, hostile and anxious, even when they aren't
"high."
Long-term Effects:
In addition to those already mentioned, cocaine can cause irritability, mood disturbances, restlessness, paranoia and auditory hallucinations. Tolerance to the drug develops so that more is needed to produce the same “high.”
Coming down from the drug causes severe depression, which becomes deeper and deeper after each use of the drug. This can get so severe that a person will do almost anything to get the drug—even commit murder. And if he or she can't get cocaine the depression can get so intense it can drive the addict to suicide.
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