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Crack Cocaine

Crack Cocaine. Jinnie. What is your drug and what does it look like?. Crack cocaine Crystal form of cocaine(powder form) Yellow, pale rose, white The most powerful form of cocaine Riskiest 75%~100% pure for stronger and more potent. What are the effects?. Short-term effects.

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Crack Cocaine

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  1. Crack Cocaine Jinnie

  2. What is your drug and what does it look like? • Crack cocaine • Crystal form of cocaine(powder form) • Yellow, pale rose, white • The most powerful form of cocaine • Riskiest • 75%~100% pure for stronger and more potent

  3. What are the effects? Short-term effects Long-term effects Depression Violent behaviors Sleep deprivation Loss of appetite Coughing Shortness of breath Lung damage Chest pains Tooth decay Weight loss Tolerance addiction Disorientation Muscle spasms Delirium Lose interest in other areas of life • increased blood pressure • breathing difficulties • paranoid thinking • Hallucinations • Nausea • Panic • Psychosis • dilated pupils • increased body temperature • hyper stimulation • intense drug craving • Bizarre • Stimulates key pleasure centers within the brain and causes extremely heightened euphoria

  4. How is it used? • Heated(makes cracking or popping sound) • Smoked(addiction develop faster) • Snorted

  5. Is this drug legal? • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past in Atlanta, Georgia.

  6. Work Cited • http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/crackcocaine/why-is-crack-cocaine-so-highly-addictive.html • http://www.mnprc.org/resources/fact-sheets/nida-infofacts-cocaine • http://rationalphilosophy.net/index.php/tag/crack-cocaine • http://www.drugaddictiontreatment.ca/crack-cocaine-a-white-collar-drug/ • http://abcnews.go.com/US/1900-crack-cocaine-users-dealers-prison-early/story?id=14875393 • http://narcotic.net/crack-cocaine • http://www.citypoop.com/2012/01/the-economics-of-activity-that-is-illegal/ • http://www.graffiti.org/ireland/ireland_8.html • http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/eyes/images/14801295/title/rainbow-eye-2-photo • http://hoffman.photoshelter.com/image/I0000AVbFy0xvrrI

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