What is cocaine?
Cocaine is a stimulant drug. They speed up messages travelling between the brain and body.
Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), native to South America.1 The leaf extract is processed to produce three different forms of cocaine:
Cocaine hydrochloride: a fine white powder with a bitter, numbing taste. Cocaine hydrochloride is often mixed, or ‘cut’, with other substances such as lidocaine, talcum powder or sugar to dilute it before being sold.
Freebase: a white powder that is purer than cocaine hydrochloride.
Crack: crystals ranging from white or cream to transparent with a pink or yellow hue. It may contain impurities.
Other names of Cocaine
C, coke, crack, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.
How is cocaine used?
Cocaine hydrochloride is most commonly snorted. It can also be injected and rubbed into the gums. If cocaine is snorted, the effects can be felt in approximately 1-10 minutes and last for around 90 minutes.
Freebase and crack cocaine are usually smoked.
Indigenous people of South America have traditionally chewed the leaves of the coca bush for their stimulant and appetite suppressant effects.
Effects of cocaine
There is no safe level of drug use. Use of any drug always carries some risk. It’s important to be careful when taking any type of drug.
Cocaine affects everyone differently, based on:
- size, weight and health
- whether the person is used to taking it
- whether other drugs are taken around the same time
- the amount taken
- the strength of the drug (varies from batch to batch).
You may experience:
- happiness and confidence
- talking more
- feeling energetic and alert
- anxiety
- paranoia
- irritability and agitation
- headaches
- dizziness
- feeling physically strong and mentally sharp
- reduced appetite
- dry mouth
- enlarged (dilated) pupils
- higher blood pressure and faster heartbeat and breathing
- higher body temperature
- increased sex drive
- insomnia
- unpredictable, violent or aggressive behaviour
- indifference to pain.
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