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Bookmark or Share- Cocaine - DEASmoking or injection creates an intense euphoric “rush”Tolerance builds quickly, easy to overdoseCardiac arrhythmiasIncreased blood pressure and heart rateRestlessness, irritability, anxiety, paranoiaInsomnia, loss of appetiteStroke or deathSudden cardiac arrestConvulsionThe crash that follows a high is mental and physical exhaustion, sleep, and depression lasting several days.
- Cocaine: Effects, Hazards & Warnings - Drugs.comWhat is cocaine? Cocaine (C 17 H 21 NO 4) is a powerfully addictive, psychoactive, stimulant drug. On the street it is usually sold as a fine, white crystal powder. The powdered, hydrochloride salt form can be snorted or dissolved in water and injected. Use in any form is illegal in the U.S. when used as recreational drug.
- Cocaine DrugFacts | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca plant native to South America. Street dealers often mix it with things like cornstarch, talcum powder, or flour to increase profits. They may also mix it with other drugs such as the stimulant amphetamine or the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
- Cocaine - WikipediaCocaine (from French: cocaïne, from Spanish: coca, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) [14] is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant mainly used recreationally for its euphoric effects. It is primarily obtained from the leaves of two Coca species native to South America, Erythroxylum coca and Erythroxylum novogranatense.
- Cocaine - HISTORYCocaine is a stimulant drug that’s made from the leaves of the South American coca plant. For thousands of years, indigenous people in the Amazon Rainforest and Andes Mountains have chewed coca...
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