Transcript Crack Cocaine A.K.A Bazooka

~Crack Cocaine
A.K.A
Bazooka
The ROCK
Adau Deng
Period 1 Mondays & Wednesday
After Using Cocaine
• Some people use crack to ease their pains
{like other drug user} but crack doesn't
ease but increase it
• Crack gives you more pain and
disappointment unless you use it 27/7 if
not even the slightest thing will become
harder and harder for you to deal with
Bazooka
• Crack comes from a shrub (erythroxylum coca)
that grows in the mountains of Bolivia, Colombia,
and Peru.
• Cocaine got the nickname “Crack” because this
drug is heated and then ingested ,and during its
heating process it makes a cracking or popping
sound.
• This drug is the most potent form in which
cocaine is shown is also the riskiest.
• Smoking crack is a drug that is very addictive
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• This dug is an immediate and intense that last
for about 15 min, which also shortens your life.
• If you smoke crack then snort it you may get
addicted to it even on your first try.
• Since this drug is a high costing drug it has been
called the “rich man’s drug”
• Crack used to be affordable for a regular
teenager, but once you’ve became addicted you
wouldn’t care how much the cost and still
continue to get it.
Short terms Affects
of
Crack Cocaine
Short terms effect
– Crack will get you “high”
– Right after that you will do the opposite which is
intense depression, edginess, wanting more.
– Dug user often don't sleep or eat well
– It will also cause increased heart rates, muscle
spasms and convulsions .
– It makes the user feel paranoid, angry, hostile and
anxious — even when they aren't "high".
– User will also be at high risk of a heart attack, stroke,
seizures or respiratory failure
Long term effect
for
Cocaine
• Brain effects
• Memory loss, hard to pay attention, use of words and
also hand-eye coordination.
• You will get hallucination and have flashbacks for years
• Destroy brain cells
• Heart and blood
• Narrow blood vessels
• Lung & kidney effects
• Lungs disease
• Kidney due to effect of the blood vessels
Info and description
for
cocaine
• Crack can be used in a solid or liquid way
– solid
• the user could sniff it
– Liquid
• The user injects it
• It is a high cost drug that cause drug
addict to buy more
• It can cause sudden deaths
Pictures of drug addicts
• SNIFFERS
IJECTORES
Bibliography
• Author (if known). “Title of Web Page." Group Responsible for
maintaining Web Site. 09 Mar. 2009 URL.
• Jennifer James. “Crack: Cocaine Squared” 22 April 2009 from the
Do IT NOW Foundation http://www.doitnow.org/pages/164.html
• “Facts About Crack Cocaine” 26 April 2009 from the Foundation for
a Drug-Free World (Available
at) http://www.drugfreeworld.org/factsaboutdrugs/crack.html
• Christina M Delos Reyes & Georgette SomjenAddiction
and Substance Abuse
• http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/35653.htm