1. Cocaine
Ben, Chris, and Jacky

2. What is it?
Cocaine is extracted from cocoa leaves and was developed as a pain killer.
It is sniffed or snorted as a powder.

3. Common Street Names Coke Charlie Aunt Nora Bernice Binge Blow C Dust
Flake
Mojo
Nose Candy
Paradise
Sneeze
Sniff
Snow
Toot
White

4. How it Enters the Body Snorted/ sniffed in powder form
Injected (goes right to your blood stream)
Smoked in a rock or crystallized form

5. History
Used to be a medicine prescribed by doctors for colds and as pain killers.
One of the oldest, most potent, and dangerous stimulants of natural origins.
Used to be used in the production of Coca-Cola.

6. History
Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who used cocaine himself, was the first to openly promote cocaine as a cure to depression as well as sexual impotence.

7. Statistics
Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world
In year olds about 7.5 million people have used cocaine at least once
3.5 million have used it in the last year
1.5 million used it in the last month

8. Statistics cont.
8.5% of 12th graders have used cocaine at some point in their lives
448,481 emergency department visits were made in 2005 related to cocaine
In people ages the usage rate of cocaine was 6.9%
35.3% of people aged 12 and older have used cocain

9. Short Term Effects
Stimulates key pleasure centers in the brain and simulates extreme euphoria
Tolerance quickly develops
Short lived high
Edginess
Intense depression
Increased heart rate

10. Short Term Effects cont.
Muscle spasms
Even when your not high you feel angry, hostile and anxious

11. Long Term Effects
Because a tolerance develops you need more of the drug to get the same effect
Prolonged daily use leads to sleep deprivation as well as loss of appetite
Users often become psychotic and tend to hallucinate
Permanent damage to blood vessels

12. Long Term Effects cont. High blood pressure
Liver, kidney and lung damage
Destruction of nose tissue

13. How people become addicted…
Babies can be born addicted from addicted parents, i.e. Crack babies
People believe it improves work
Believed to improve focus
Peer pressure
People crave better highs after doing other gateway drugs

14. Fun and Interesting Facts ;D
Ancient Incas chewed Coco leaves to receive a high
Native Peruvians chewed Coco leaves during religious ceremonies
Prescribed regularly by doctors
Matt Farley died of Cocaine overdose
Marilyn Monroe used Coke