Cocaine Usage
Cocaine Abuse
Kiara Palmer
Shaw University
Cocaine and crack are both drugs created from the coca plant but have different levels of refinement. Cocaine is an addictive stimulant of the central nervous system, extracted from the coca leaf. Cocaine is usually inhaled but can also be injected. Crack is the freebase form of cocaine that has been processed from the powdered cocaine hydrochloride form to a substance that can be smoked. Cocaine is taken in through the nose and crack is smoked through a pipe or use of white paper, which tobacco can also be used to smoke in as well.
Cocaine is very addictive due to the stimulant, which causes the person to stay awake, have reduced appetite, and has the tendency to cause people to become annoyed, frustrated, and violent. The word crack refers to the sound you hear when it is being smoked. It can be made using baking soda or sodium hydroxide. Pure cocaine was introduced in the 1880’s for medical purposes such as eye, nose and throat surgeries and its ability to constrict blood vessels and limit bleeding, while crack cocaine emerged in the mid-1980s partially because of its immediate high, and it’s inexpensive to buy and produce.
Powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenses have accounted for about half of the federally sentenced drug trafficking offenders, approximately 11,000 in 2006. The majority of powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenders do not involve in aggravating conduct. Certain aggravating conducts occur more often in crack cocaine offenses than in powder offenses but still occur in minority of cases. In 2007 United States Federal courts found 5,477 individuals guilty of crack cocaine related crimes and more than 95 percent had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking. Differing from the United States, The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction reported that only crack cocaine abusers represented only 2 percent of all drug users. 8.6 million Americans ages
Kiara Palmer
Shaw University
Cocaine and crack are both drugs created from the coca plant but have different levels of refinement. Cocaine is an addictive stimulant of the central nervous system, extracted from the coca leaf. Cocaine is usually inhaled but can also be injected. Crack is the freebase form of cocaine that has been processed from the powdered cocaine hydrochloride form to a substance that can be smoked. Cocaine is taken in through the nose and crack is smoked through a pipe or use of white paper, which tobacco can also be used to smoke in as well.
Cocaine is very addictive due to the stimulant, which causes the person to stay awake, have reduced appetite, and has the tendency to cause people to become annoyed, frustrated, and violent. The word crack refers to the sound you hear when it is being smoked. It can be made using baking soda or sodium hydroxide. Pure cocaine was introduced in the 1880’s for medical purposes such as eye, nose and throat surgeries and its ability to constrict blood vessels and limit bleeding, while crack cocaine emerged in the mid-1980s partially because of its immediate high, and it’s inexpensive to buy and produce.
Powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenses have accounted for about half of the federally sentenced drug trafficking offenders, approximately 11,000 in 2006. The majority of powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenders do not involve in aggravating conduct. Certain aggravating conducts occur more often in crack cocaine offenses than in powder offenses but still occur in minority of cases. In 2007 United States Federal courts found 5,477 individuals guilty of crack cocaine related crimes and more than 95 percent had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking. Differing from the United States, The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction reported that only crack cocaine abusers represented only 2 percent of all drug users. 8.6 million Americans ages