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 Street terms for Cocaine: blow, nose candy, snowball, tornado, wicky stick1
What are the different forms of cocaine?
- White crystalline powder
- "Crack" or "rock" cocaine is an off-white chunky material.
How is cocaine used?
- Powder cocaine is generally snorted or dissolved in water and injected.
Who uses cocaine?
- Cocaine is the second most commonly used illicit Drug in the United States.
- About 10 percent of Americans over the age of 12 have tried
cocaine at least once in their lifetime, about 2 percent have tried
crack, and nearly one percent is currently using cocaine.3
How does cocaine get to the United States?
- The United States-Mexico border is the primary point of entry for cocaine shipments being smuggled into the United States.
- Organized crime groups based in Colombia control the worldwide supply of cocaine.4
How much does cocaine cost?
- Cocaine prices depend upon the purity of the product.
- In 2001, cocaine purity declined by 8 percent, from 86 percent
pure in 1998 to a 78 percent pure in 2001. The decrease in purity
indicates a decrease in the supply of cocaine in the United States.5
- Cocaine remained low and stable, which suggests a steady supply to the United States.
- Nationwide, prices ranged from $12,000 to $35,000 per kilogram.6
What are some consequences of cocaine use?
- Cocaine is powerfully addictive.7
- Smoking crack can cause severe chest pains with lung trauma and bleeding.8
- The mixing of cocaine and Alcohol create cocaethylene while increasing risk of sudden death.9
- Cocaine-related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizures followed by respiratory arrest.10
1 Office of National Drug Control Policy, Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade.
2 National Institute on Drug abuse, Infofax: Crack and Cocaine, October 2001.
3 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Summary of
Findings from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse,
September 2001.
4 Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Trafficking in the United States, September 2001.
5 Drug Enforcement Administration, STRIDE Report, August 2002.
6 Office of National Drug Control Policy, Pulse Check: Trends in Drug Abuse, November 2001.
7 Office of National Drug Control Policy, Drug Facts: Cocaine, May 2002.
8 Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Descriptions: Cocaine.
9 National Institute on Drug Abuse, Infofax: Crack and Cocaine, October 2001.
10 Office of National Drug Control Policy, Drug Facts: Cocaine, May 2002.
Source: Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Image Souce: Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
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| Definitions of Terms Used |
| Alcohol | Refers to ethyl alcohol or ethanol.
| | Cocaine | A highly addictive stimulant drug derived from the cocoa plant that produces feelings of euphoria. Also see Crack.
| | Crack Cocaine | A chemically altered form of cocaine that is smoked.
| | Drug | Any substance, other than food, that changes the function or structure of the body or mind when ingested. Drugs essentially are poisons. The degree they are taken determines the effect. A small amount acts as a stimulant. A greater amount acts as a sedative. A larger amount acts as a poison and can kill one dead. This is true of any drug. Each has a different amount at which it gives those results.
| | Drug abuse | The use of illegal drugs or the inappropriate use of legal drugs. The repeated use of drugs to produce pleasure, to alleviate stress, or to alter or avoid reality - or all three.
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