How Cocaine and Crack is Effecting Lives

How Cocaine is Effecting Lives

How is cocaine and crack effecting people today? The use of the drug can be prevented in many ways, for example the help and support from family members, considering the consequences that can come from the drug, and by attending rehab if needed. If everyone could do this the world could possibly be drug free. That means less crime, more lives saved, and less stress. This all sounds good. As a nation people should try their hardest to stop the use of this drug and all other harmful destructive drugs.

What is some basic information or background information? The drug itself came from a plant called the coca. Back in the day when the drug was starting to become a thing, the Indians would chew on the coca plants leaves. The drug may have been part of Indian cultures for as far back as 3,000 BCE. Indians for some reason would use cocaine in religious practices. That’s unique and uncommon. A while back there wasn’t really any horses available, so Indians used runners and would give them cocaine to chew on. This made them deliver messages rapidly. These runners would travel with no food or water. There is plenty of background information on this drug, since it began so long ago. Over time the drug obtained many street names such as coke, candy, flake, and snow. There are many more names for cocaine. (Johanson 51).

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Physical effects from crack cocaine include a rapid increase of heart rate, an increase of blood pressure, twitching, and tremors. Those are some of the major effects not including death. Some other physical effects cocaine may have on the body are, fever, dilated pupils, cold sweats, fatigue, blurred vision, inability to sleep, vomiting and etc. This dru...

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VII. Cocaine’s Impact on society

A. Workers who consume cocaine are 1.5 times as likely to have an accident

B. Nearly twice as likely to have been injured

C. More than twice as likely to have been absent.

VIII. How cocaine effects teens

A. Miscommunication in the brain

B. Brain can act slow

C. Tightens blood vessels

IX. Recovery

A. Avoid high risk situations

B. Mentally tough

C. Rehab

Work Cited

(Johanson, E, Chris. Cocaine A new epidemic, Volume 8. Chelsea House Publishers 1986)

(Ann, E, Holmes. Psychological effects of cocaine and crack addiction. Chelsea House Publishers 1999)

(Doesn’t have author. drugsfree.world.org Foundation for a drug free world. 2006-2014)

( Schachne Js, Roberts BH, Thompson PD. Cocaine. Addictionsandrecovery.org. New England Journal Medicine. 1984)

(Teens.drug abuse.gov) no information given on author and etc.