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Title: Cocaine


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Cocaine
  • By Matt Grace, Kris McKegney
  • Leanne Stewart, and Sara Brown

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What is it?
  • Cocaine is obtained from the leaves of the coca
    plant.
  • It is usually sold is small baggies by the gram.
  • It is a fast-acting nervous system stimulant.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive drug.

3
What does it look like?
  • Cocaine mainly looks like a white crystalline
    powder.
  • Crack cocaine looks like white rocks that vary in
    shape and size.

4
Crack Cocaine
  • Crack is a highly addictive form of cocaine that
    is popular for its intense high. It is mainly
    used for smoking.

5
How it is Used
  • It usually comes as a fine white powder which is
    snorted in lines and rapidly absorbed all through
    the nasal membranes.
  • A lot of users also dab it on their teeth and
    gums and smoke it in the form of crack.

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Short Term Effects
  • Cocaine's effects appear almost immediately after
    a single dose. Even in small amounts it can make
    the user feel
  • Energetic
  • Talkative
  • Mentally alert
  • Increased heart rate
  • Decrease the need for food and sleep

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Long Term Effects
  • Some long term cocaine effects are
  • Addiction
  • Paranoia
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Hallucinations
  • Mood disturbances

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Common Misconception of Cocaine
  • The use of cocaine is punishment enough for a
    user. Leave users alone.

10
Coca-Cola
  • Coca-Cola was invented in 1885 and first sold to
    consumers in 1886. It was first sold as a
    medicine. Up to the early 1900's, one of the
    ingredients was cocaine.

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History of Cocaine
  • Cocaine was first synthesized in pure form by
    Albert Niemann. In 1860, he extracted pure
    cocaine powder from the leaves of Erythroxylum
    coca (coca plant).

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Sources
  • http//erowid.org/chemicals/cocaine/cocaine_stats.
    shtml
  • http//www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/images/attachem
    ent/jpg/site1/20080103/0013729e4abe08e66a3842.jpg
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine
  • http//www.dancesafe.org/documents/druginfo/cocain
    e.php
  • http//cocaineaddiction.com/cocaine_hist.html
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_cocaine
  • http//drugeffects.org/images/self_dep.jpg
  • http//www.cocaineaddictiontreatment.org/cocaine_w
    ithdrawal.gif
  • www.targetamerica.org/misconceptions.htm
  • http//www.fdle.state.fl.us/publications/cocaine_h
    eroin_1998/images/graph1_cocaine_deaths_bmod.gif
  • http//www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs3/3978/index.htm
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    mages/ColorblindRacism/ColorblindRacism_3.jpg
  • http//news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05
    /uk_drug_trends/img/4.jpg
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