Crack
by: Jake Challenger
Crack
- Crack is made by dissolving powdered cocaine in a mixture of water and baking soda or ammonia.
- It came from the South American cocoa plant.
- Short Term-
- Loss of appetite
- Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature
- Contracted blood vessels
- Increased rate of breathing
- Dilated pupils
- Disturbed sleep patterns
- Nausea
- Long Term-
- Permanent damage to blood vessels of ear and brain, high blood pressure, leading to heart attacks, strokes and death
- Liver, kidney and lung damage
- Severe chest pains
- Respiratory failure
- Infectious diseases and abscesses if injected
- Malnutrition, weight loss
- Severe tooth decay
Crack
- When you are on Crack, you feel lie your not even in your body. You feel a euphoria and you really just get away from the world.
- Nationwide, wholesale crack ranges from 12,000 to 35,000 per kilogram.
Street names
Street names
24-7
Apple jacks
Badrock
Ball
Base
Beat
Candy
Chemical
Cloud
Cookies
Crack
Street names
Crumbs
Crunch & munch
Devil drug
Dice
Electric kool-aid
Fat bags
French fries
Glo
Gravel
Grit
Hail
Hard ball
Sreet names
Hard rock
Hotcakes
Ice cube
Jelly beans
Kryptonite
Nuggets
Paste
Piece
Prime time
Product
Raw
Rock(s)
Crack
- Most people who are Crack heads end up either homeless, in jail, or dead.
- The danger is that you become addicted and you cannot become sober again.
- Crack can either come in white powder, or crystalized rocks.
- It can be snorted, injected, or smoked depending on the preference of the person.
- Withdrawal Symtoms: agitation.
- depression.
- intense craving for the drug.
- extreme fatigue.
- anxiety.
- angry outbursts.
- lack of motivation.
- nausea/vomiting.
- Users may compulsively re-dose on which can lead to a large amount of the drug being ingested in a short period.
- Crack is categorized as a stimulant.