Transcript Cocaine
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 • • • • • • • • • • • 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