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Cocaine Addictions

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Cocaine

Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug. People who have tried it describe the experience as a powerful euphoria that gives them a feeling of supremacy. However, once the person begins to use cocaine, you can not predict or control how much you continue using the drug. The main forms of cocaine are sniffing ingest or inhale through the nose, injecting and smoking,

The health risks exist regardless of whether cocaine is inhaled (aspirated), is injected or smoked. However, it appears that compulsive cocaine use may develop faster when that inhaling smoke. Smoking it allows extremely high doses of the drug reaching the brain more quickly and produces an immediate and intense euphoria.

Physical effects of cocaine use include constricted peripheral blood vessels, dilated pupils and increased body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure. Some cocaine users report having feelings of restlessness, irritability and anxiety, both during use and between periods of use.

Those who use it may develop a substantial tolerance to the drug effect and many users report that they seek to gain as much pleasure as the first time, but do not.

High doses of cocaine and prolonged use can trigger paranoia. The user who smokes cocaine may exhibit particularly aggressive paranoid behavior.

Addicted individuals may become depressed when they stop using cocaine. This depression causes users to continue using the drug to alleviate depression.

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Cocaine Production

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

shrub

Shrub:
The shrub called Erythroxylon coca develops fully in the geographic area of the plateau, whose growth is favored by wet weather and temperature prevailing in the area.

Of this shrub and its leaves are properly extracted a white substance, crystalline, known cocaine hydrochloride.

It is distinguished from other shrubs, because their whole leaves shortly petiolate, oval, obtuse, 2 to 7 cm. long by 1.5 to 4 cm. wide, eventually lattice, with prominent midrib. Are about equal on each side of the midrib and about one third of the distance is on the verge, has two curved lines, clearly visible. They are grayish-green, sometimes brownish, stiff and hairless, weak aromatic odor and bitter taste, astringent and slightly bitter.

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Source of Cocaine

Monday, January 18th, 2010

coca leaf

Cocaine is the main alkaloid obtained from the leaves resulting in the percentage with 0.5 to 1.5% variable.

The extraction is relatively simple, being able to make with items readily available reagents and not requiring the infrastructure of a laboratory for the process.

One of the most common method for obtaining cocaine is macerated coca leaves with lime for three days, then separating the active part of the coca leaf. This post is mixed with kerosene and liquid thus obtained is combined with sulfuric acid thereby obtaining a precipitate of the active substance sulfate. The next step is to undertake a dry substance obtained, and again it is combined with sulfuric acid and potassium permanganate, all to obtain a purified solution, filtering and adding more acid.

The solid product is separated and dry once you get the coca paste or cocaine base. As a last step we add the paste is dissolved in acetone and ether, then adding hydrochloric acid. This solution is filtered and alcohol added, yielding after 3 or 4 hours a precipitate crystalline solid known as “cocaine hydrochloride” with an approximate purity of 90% .-

Cocaine hydrochloride, is sold illegally in the form of small envelopes, which contain 0.5 to 1 gram of drugs, commonly known as “ravioli” .-

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Effects and Dangers of cocaine use

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

cocain effects

When cocaine is introduced through the nose, start feeling the effects within a few minutes. These effects include: dilated pupils, increased blood pressure, the heart pulse rate and respiration, as also denoted a marked increase in body temperature. Also some regular users of the drug claim feelings of restlessness, irritability, anxiety and insomnia. In some people, even low doses of cocaine can create serious psychological problems. With high doses may suffer paranoia or experience what is called “cocaine psychosis“.

The occasional use can cause runny or blocked nose, while chronic aspiration can ulcerate the mucous membrane of the nose.

Although few people understand it, deaths can occur when injecting excessive doses, smoke or take drugs. The deaths are the result of multiple attacks suspension followed by respiratory and cardiac activity. Anyone addicted to this drug is subject to a fatal outcome when least expected, because cocaine in all its forms creates such physical and psychological dependence that consumers are using in increasing quantities in order to achieve the results we obtained in its inception, this being the cause of excess and therefore death from overdose .-

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Cocaine

Friday, January 15th, 2010

cocaine

Cocaine is a drug extracted from coca leaves (a plant that grows in South America). Cocaine appears in various forms. Cocaine hydrochloride is the most available drugs. It is often a fine white powder-like crystal, but sometimes comes in larger pieces. Usually snorted or cocaine is inserted through the nose, although some addicts will inject or smoke as a drug called “free base”.

The “free base” is a form of cocaine that is manufactured chemically converting cocaine hydrochloride to a purified substance and subsequently altered to smoke it is more appropriate and which is commonly known as Crake. There is also another form of “crak” (which is commonly achieved by low value) arising from processing wastes to hydrochloride .

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