Cocaine is a powerfully addictive central nervous system stimulant that is snorted, injected, or smoked.
It’s a Stimulant
Also increases body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate.
Users risk heart attacks, respiratory failure, strokes, seizures, abdominal pain, and nausea.
Coke, snow, flake, blow
How that drug is taken.
Cocaine is taken in three common methods: snorting, injecting, and sniffing. Snorting is the process of inhaling cocaine powder through the nose, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues. Injecting is the use of a needle to insert the drug directly into the bloodstream. Smoking involves inhaling cocaine vapor or smoke into the lungs, where absorption into the bloodstream is as rapid as it is by injection.
10 Ryan.) Cocaine is an insanely dangerous drug that can be injected, inhaled, and smoked. The thing about being able to have this inputted into your body three ways can screw up a whole lot of your body parts. Injecting could spread STD’s and other blood diseases. Inhaling screws up your nostrils and your since of smell and smoking messes up your lungs. I believe that Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs. The long term effects or horrible, some of them are
Statistics related to that drug (example: % of teenagers using in 2008)
In 2009, 4.8 million Americans age 12 and older had abused cocaine in any form and 1.0 million had abused crack at least once in the year prior to being surveyed. Source:National Survey on Drug Use and Health (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration Web Site).
The NIDA-funded 2010 Monitoring the Future Study showed that 1.6% of 8th graders, 2.2% of 10th graders, and 2.9% of 12th graders had abused cocaine in any form and 1.0% of 8th graders, 1.0% of 10th graders, and 1.4% of 12th graders had abused crack at least once in the year prior to being surveyed. Source: Monitoring the Future (University of Michigan Web Site) .
An interesting/fun fact about the drug.
The soft drink Coca-Cola originally contained an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per serving, which combined with caffeine to create the drink’s powerful stimulating effects. While cocaine was officially removed from the drink’s ingredients in 1903, a cocaine-free version of the coca leaf is still used as a flavor additive in the soda.
