DRUG INFORMATION

DRUGS LIST

coke, charlie, white, snow, blow and toot.

If you use cocaine it can make you:

	Feel as though you are powerful
	Feel a false sense of confidence
	Become incredibly paranoid and very scared
	Make you want to use it again as soon as the effects have worn off
	Feel as though you have loads of energy
	Feel as though you can do anything
	Feel as though you are in control
	Talk a lot quicker

It can also:

Cause your blood pressure to go up and put strain on your heart which can lead to a heart attack. It can also effect the way your eyes work and can lead to blindness.

Cocaine is actually cocaine hydrochloride. It comes from the leaves of the coca plant. The leaves go through a complicated chemical process to get the gritty white powder that people then use. The leaves can be chewed but the effects are weaker than the powder. It can be snorted or injected. It cannot be smoked, it has to be made in to crack to be smoked.

Cocaine is a psychologically addictive drug.

It is a class A drug.



Cocaine takes the user really high which means the after effects are gonna be nasty. The user feels exhausted, really sad, irritable, twitchy and depressed.

Cocaine is not a rich person’s drug and doesn’t mean you have made it in life if you use it. It doesn’t have to be snorted using a £20 note from the surface of a mirror like they often show on TV. It can be snorted up any tube from any flat surface.

Using cocaine can seriously damage your nose. The powder is not that fine and rubs at the inside of the nose as the drug goes in. It messes up the small vessels on the inside of the nose and over time kills them. The powder rubs at the flesh and if you use a lot it can mean the middle part of you nose (the septum) can waste away and come out. This has happened to some famous people.