Cocaine Addiction
- Signs of Cocaine Addiction
- Effects of Cocaine
- Cocaine Withdrawal
- Cocaine Addiction Treatment
- Cocaine Addiction Intervention
- Cocaine Relapse Prevention
- Cocaine Overdose Symptoms
- Cocaine Side Effects
Cocaine Information
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Cocaine Facts
- Cocaine and Alcohol, when used together, causes 75% of cocaine related deaths in America.
- Somewhere around 12,000 offenders in the U.S. went to prison in 2007 because of cocaine related charges and of these 12,000, around 95% of those cases involved cocaine trafficking.
- Cocaine is almost always cut with various chemicals or additives by street dealers to increase the revenue they can make.
- Cocaine is often cut with lactose, cornstarch, talcum powder, sugar or lidocaine.
- Cocaine was outlawed in 1914 and became scarce in availability but came back later in the 1960's. During the 1970's cocaine became "the" drug of choice for most users.
- Cocaine was used as an anesthetic in 1884 by a physician named William Stewart Halsted. Halsted was also the first physician on record to develop an addiction to Cocaine.
- Cocaine causes the release of dopamine from nerve cells within the brain. This reactions is what causes the euphoric feelings one has when using cocaine.
- It is estimated that around 2,500 Americans try cocaine for the fist time every day in the United States.
- There are three times as many deaths related to cocaine than any other illegal drug.
- Cocaine was used in the soft drink Coca-Cola when it originally came out. Cocaine was removed from the soft drink in 1903, but a cocaine free version of the coca leaf is used for flavoring in the soft drink still today.
- Cocaine in smokeable rock form, otherwise known as Crack, became extremely popular almost overnight because of its quick "high" and low cost.
- Crack is smoked in a glass straight pipe. It is heated within the pipe to produce vapors which are inhaled.
- Cocaine's effects tend to affect men faster than women. Men also report more exaggerated feelings of euphoria or paranoia from using cocaine than women do.
- Cocaethylene is formed when cocaine and alcohol are mixed within the body. This highly toxic compound kills more people than any other combined drugs.
- Depression, Anxiety and antisocial personality traits are higher in cocaine users than the average American.
- It is estimated four out of every five dollar bills have trace amounts of cocaine on them.
- Cocaine is reportedly used in two-thirds of all countries worldwide. The United States reports the highest amount of cocaine use per capita.
- During drug arrests, nearly 50,000 kilos of cocaine were seized in 2008 in the United States. This amount equates to about 1.5 billion in worth on the street.
- Cocaine was often used by literary detective Sherlock Holmes as a mental stimulator.
- Cocaine was banned from non medical use in 1914 under the Harrison Act.
- Cocaine can be taken in several ways. It can be inhaled or "snorted" through the nose, smoked off tin foil as freebase or "rocked up" and smoked in a glass pipe as crack or mixed with water and injected into the bloodstream.