Crack Cocaine Addiction

As with all addictions, increased tolerance requires increased amounts of drugs to maintain the same effects. Many cocaine users will progress to crack cocaine and become addicted as it is a more efficient way to use cocaine. It takes 8 seconds for crack cocaine to take effect after it has been smoked. This is considerably quicker than powder cocaine, which takes 10 to 15 minutes. Crack is a purer, more potent form of cocaine and creates a powerful urge to use more. The general consensus is crack cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs available. Crack cocaine is made by mixing powder cocaine with bicarbonate soda and heated over a spoon (this process is known as being ‘washed up’). This procedure creates oil; this is mixed with air and rubbed to create a stone. The stone is then smoked in a crack pipe or broken down with citric acid to create a solution which can be injected.

Crack Cocaine Pharmaceutical Name:

Methylbenzoylecgonine

Crack Cocaine Street Names:

24-7, Bad-rock, Beat, Blast, Candy, Cat Pee, Casper, Chemical, Chalk, Cloud, Cookies, Crumbs, Crunch & Munch, Devil Drug , Dice, Electric Kool-Aid, Fat bags, French Fries, Glo, Gravel, Grit, Hail, Hard ball, Hard Rock, Rock, Hell, Hotcakes, Ice cube, Jelly beans Nuggets, Kryptonite, Love, Moon Rocks, Paste, Piece, Prime Time, Product, Raw, Rock(s), Scrabble, Sleet, Stones, Snow Coke, Tornado, Troop.

Crack Cocaine Forms:

Stones, Solution.

Crack Cocaine Doses:

A crack rock costs between £10 and £20 and will last for about 10 minutes.

Crack Cocaine History:

Crack Cocaine first became big in the deprived areas of America in the early 1980’s. With it ensued an increase in gang crime, drug crime and gun crime. It was thought that it would have the same effect in the UK, but has yet hasn’t proved to be as drastic as it was first estimated.

Crack Cocaine Side Effects:

Euphoria, supreme confidence, loss of appetite, insomnia, alertness, increased energy, a craving for more cocaine, paranoia, depression, irritability, restlessness, paranoia, paranoid psychosis, auditory hallucinations, constricted blood vessels, dilated pupils, increased temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, cardiac arrest, seizures, respiratory arrest,

Crack Cocaine Overdose:

As Crack Cocaine is absorbed so quickly in such large doses it is relatively easy to overdose on. The risks are convulsions, coma and heart failure.

Crack Cocaine Withdrawals:

Withdrawal symptoms from crack include mood swings, anxiety, irritability, insomnia, weight loss and depression. In some instances crack withdrawal is treated with anti depressants, benzodiazepines and / or sleeping tablets.