Cocaine and Crack Cocaine Cocaine is an illegal drug in the United States. It is a chemical obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It is classified as a central nervous system stimulant that causes feelings of euphoria as well as increases body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate. It can also be used as a local anesthetic.
A cocaine user, when high, will feel a sense of intense euphoria increasing libido. This is referred to as the flash or rush.
There are various types of cocaine including the white powder that is extracted from the coca leaves and crack cocaine, which looks like small rock crystals. The street names for both cocaine and crack cocaine are coke, blow, Peruvian lady, snow, all-American drug,
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Withdrawal from cocaine usually has no physical symptoms but is often accompanied by depression, anxiety, paranoia, lack of pleasure, and agitation. It is important to make sure the client is not at risk for suicide or a danger to others before releasing him or her from your office.
Since one of the side effects of cocaine is a raised libido, it increases the chance that couples will abuse cocaine together. They think this heightens or intensifies their physical pleasure in their relationship. They will not see cocaine as a destroyer of relationships, but as s strengthener of relationships. However, this is never the case. When counseling a couple, you need to highlight and emphasize the ways in which cocaine has destroyed or hurt their relationship and offer hope and healing from that brokenness.
Be sensitive in your judgments of those who are addicted to cocaine. Do not look on them as weak or morally inferior. Instead see them as people whom God created with intrinsic value. In fact, when people have an addiction, they are abusing substances because they are searching for something greater in life. So, in one sense, you could say that they are in touch with themselves because they sense emptiness inside, but in their
Drug enforcement agencies throughout North America spend over 40 billion tax dollars annually on their government funded war on drugs. The DEA currently classifies cocaine as an addictive and dangerous, schedule-two drug. Around the 1880’s, however, cocaine was celebrated in the United States for its “magical, medicinal purposes” (New Ulm Weekly Review). The miracle medicine of the late 19th century, cocaine, is derived from the coca plant native to South America, more specifically, the Andes Mountains. South Americans chewed the coca leaves for thousands of years to counter the nauseating effects of living in thin mountain-air environments and to stimulate their heart and breathing rates for hunting purposes.
Everyone knows that Nita is on hard drugs (cocaine). She will sleep with men for money. It was told to the reporter more than once that Nita would allow grown men to have oral sex with her child for drugs. The child would be hollering, probably because she does not like it. It was unknown if this is happening to the other child.
Because of this, the codependent usually feels anxiety, pity, and/or guilt for the substance
On The Outside - Yet Very Much Involved This chapter ‘On The Outside – Yet Very Much Involved' is for the non-addict people who often are on the outside of the alcoholic or addict nightmare, but very much involved. We understand how tough it often is to move out from underneath the umbrella of another person's active addiction and addictive behavior. We are especially knowledgeable of the problems involved in making a decision to reclaim sovereignty over their personal lives and lifestyles. We also understand why some people choose to stay where they are.
The biological explanation of the brain in regards to drug addiction is interesting. According to the textbook, "Studies have found convincing evidence that drugs such as alcohol, heroin, and cocaine act directly on the brain mechanisms that are responsible for reward and punishment. " When one use drugs, the drug stimulates the areas of the brain that create the sensation of pleasure and suppress the pleasure of pain, as, a result, the user receives reinforcement to engage in further drug-taking behavior. The psychological explanation of drug abuse, "Focus on either personality disorders or the effects of social learning and reinforcement on drug-taking behaviors."
The crack epidemic in the US was appearent during the Reagan era. The war on drugs began when the CIA decided to bring the drug into the low income communities. This epidemic exploded before anyone really noticed. "Crack was a plague that spread through African American neighborhoods like wildfire" (Bean, 2014). Laws changed so that the powder meant you went to jail for longer even thoough it was a non-violent offense.
Introduction Written and published in 2008 by Paul Gootenberg, History professor and Latin American studies at University of New York at Stony Brook, “Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global drug” retraces the pivotal stages of the illicit cocaine trafficking, starting from the boundless coca fields in Latin America to the chemistry laboratories in Europe up until the streets of U.S. cities. The aim of this book review is to provide the reader with a short but detailed insight of what is the main content of the book, by paying particular attention to its structure, objectivity and style. Scope & Organisation Adopting a meticulous chronological approach, Gootenberg describes the infamous and complex untold history of cocaine, analysing and
Correct the misinformation from the U.S. Congress to the relative extreme harmful effects with the use of crack cocaine as compared with powder cocaine; Inform the legislator to review the reports of the USSC regarding the previous actions in the case of crack cocaine criminal penalties. Sentencing penalties for possessing specific `drugs, must not be singled out as more dangerous, until the data has been reviewed. Correct and prevent the claims to the seriousness for the majority of crack cocaine offenses, without providing the data demonstrating the adequate proportionality. Their unfounded claims to the severity of the drug mostly impacted minorities.
Methamphetamine is a illegal drug it falls in the same class as cocaine. Crystal meth is used by all ages but it mostly as a club drug. Methamphetamine came from Japan in the 1919. It went to use in world war 2 both sides used it to stay awake. Before a pilot was to do their suicide
This stimulant drug is derived from the coca plant, and when used as a
Netflix has done it again and made an absolute gem of a series. Its most recent commission "Narcos" focusses in on one of the world's wealthiest ever hoodlums. At his peak in the mid 1990's the terrifyingly fierce Pablo Escobar was pulling in 66 million dollars a day! How could he have been able to accomplish this amazing count? I hear you ask…
Drugs are substances that trigger temporary changes in the body which may result in such a pleasurable and relaxing effect. Some of the types can slow down the nervous system’s action, while other types can have the exact opposite effect; spurring the nervous system into rapid action. Drugs are connected to cravings or addiction since a person’s body starts yearning for drugs after he or she has taken it for a while. Drugs affect consciousness significantly! They may cause people to hear or see things that aren’t real (hallucinations), experiencing mood swings, or may even distort people’s perceptions.
Keeping Marijuana Illegal. Marijuana is a drug that is used by approximately 38% in America. Recently, there has been a movement to legalize marijuana for both medical and recreational use. Some states and communities have already passed laws to legalize marijuana and many more have plans to bring legalization to a vote in the near future.
The class into which a drug is placed gives different levels of penalty for an offence involving illegal drugs; For example, Class A gives the maximum penalty as it is considered the most serious harm to human and the environment. The drugs are given different nickname because the policeman would then find it tough to understand while criminals are having a conversation. To learn the information about each type of drug, then we get to know what it looks like and how it affects the
One of the problems they face is withdrawal from substance abuse. Many drugs form a dependence within the person that when they go without they hurt mentally and physically. This may cause lashing out and violence towards others because their mind is not clear. Drugs alter a person’s mental state making them react to situations in ways normally they would not. For example, paranoia is one of the symptoms when withdrawing from harder drugs like