Cocaine

Some facts about cocaine

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Where its grownPeru

Bolivia

ColumbiaCocaine is an alkaloid found in the leaves of the South American shrub Erythroxylon coca

How its made…

•Can be made at your house

•Can be manufactured…

Coke SnowMany

Others

Blow FlakeCrack

StreetNames

smoked

It can be…

snorted

injected

cocaine •Today, about 1 /6 Americans (15 percent in

2007) has tried cocaine by the age of 30, and 7 percent have tried it by their senior year of high school

   8th-Graders  10th-Graders  12th-Graders

Lifetime** 2.0% 2.0% 2.8%

Past Year 1.1 1.3 1.6

Past Month 0.5 0.5 0.8

The effects of cocaine

• muscle cell destruction • Increased heart rate, blood pressure,• itching, tachycardia, hallucinations and

paranoid delusions• Brain: Euphoria lasting 5-15 minutes

In the past I have tried many things, some of them good but most of them bad. When I was in high school I began smoking cigarettes, it was a common thing back then everyone smoked, they would even let us smoke in classes at school. Soon after that I fell in with a bad crowd and began to smoke marijuana and consume alcohol. By the age of sixteen I smoked marijuana every day three times a day. It was an expensive habit and my drug and drinking problems wouldn't allow me to get a job. I began stealing from my family and selling their things for drug money. I even sold my grandmother's valuable spoon collection. I was not proud of myself but I couldn't stop myself. When my family started catching on I needed to find another way to make money so I began dealing drugs. By the age of eighteen I had started experimenting with crack and various other drugs. One night I passed out on a street corner, when I woke up I realized that my life had taken a horrible turn. What had happened to me? I knew right then and there that I couldn't go on like that. I went to church to confess my sins and became friends with Father Micheal who helped me find Jesus and get through it. Now I work at a youth center and run an anti-drug program all thanks to Jesus!

Micheal story

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Resource Page

http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/cocaine.html

http://www.justice.gov/dea/concern/cocaine.html

http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/drug_guide/Cocaine?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc