Cocaine

Cocaine has been used for a long time, way before recorded history. It is a known fact that cocaine comes from “western South America in countries such as Peru and Bolivia” (Carroll 13). Cocaine comes in different forms such as “coco plants, paste, cocaine hydrochloride, freebase cocaine, and crack cocaine” (Olive 9-11). The use of crack cocaine can lead to a higher chance in committing a crime, neurological problems, and dependence on the drug that is hard to escape. It is certain that…

1850s, Albert Niemann created cocaine by isolating the coca plant’s main ingredient and mixing it with other chemicals. Niemann thought he created a drug that would benefit the whole world, and for twenty to thirty years or so, the world thought so too, until the severe side effects were later discovered. Cocaine first entered America in 1863 as an unknown ingredient in a fancy wine, and this caused Americans to put cocaine in everything. Americans idealized cocaine and named it “the wonder…

Bauer 2nd hour Crack Cocaine 1) Crack or crack cocaine is an illegal drug that is made from cocaine. Cocaine is mostly an illegal drug that comes from the leaves of a plant called coca. When people smoke crack cocaine they have a feeling they are high. The name crack comes from the cracking noise the drug makes as it is smoked. The cracking noise is caused by evaporating water escaping. In parts of the world making, smoking, or selling crack cocaine is illegal and is very frowned…

Drugs have been used throughout history and throughout time these drugs have evolved into having different purposes. Cocaine at one point in time had a purpose for curing headaches, and it was not just for one’s own recreational use. Cocaine is glamorized on television and movies to be this really amazing drug, and they really never show what cocaine actually does. Cocaine effects the human body in more ways than one may realize. Such things like physiological and psychological impacts and…

dreadfulness of cocaine addiction. The “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll” era of the sixties to the eighties had glamorized cocaine use. The core members of the band, having performed throughout that period, released this song to serve as a deterrent. With the exception of Tommy Shaw, the group has not spoken out about their own involvement with the stimulant, yet this song gives a very accurate depiction of dependency on it. The lesson the country had formerly learned about the use of cocaine was…

Cocaine is a drug that caused many deaths in the world. Cocaine also known as Coke too many is a very strong addicting stimulant used as a recreational drug. Cocaine can be used in various ways such as snorting, inhaling, and dissolving it with water and injecting it into the veins. When snorting cocaine it can cause loss of smell, runny noses, and problems of swallowing. Consuming cocaine can cause severe bowel decay from reduce blood flow,and needle injections cause a higher risk for…

To fully grasp the importance of cocaine to the Expressionist poets and the movement as a whole, the history of substance abuse in literature and artistic circles of the years leading up to 1900 must be noted. Cocaine, while being a drug pharmacologically different from the choice recreational pharmaceuticals of the past, most notably opium and hashish, occupies a niche within the greater domain of drug culture among the Avant-Garde and the production of drug literature in particular. “The role…

drugs every day and think that it is no big deal, but this is how addiction starts. Addicts live for nothing but the drug they are addicted to. Drugs these days are so expensive people will sell everything they own just for a fix. A gram of heroin or cocaine cost more than a gram of gold. Drugs change the way your brain works which isn’t good. Some drugs can also change your physical appearance. The drug war is very expensive. War on drugs cost taxpayers more than 40 billion a year, 2/3 spent on…

drugs, cocaine being the most popular one that the public knows of. Ms. Houston and her husband Bobby Brown are known for their crazy love of each other and of cocaine. Whitney’s addictions succeeded over her families failed attempts to keep her sober. Whitney Houston reached the prime of her career in 1992, which is also the year she met Bobby Brown who would go on to become her husband and father of her child Bobbi Kristina. Many people assume that Bobbi Brown introduced Houston to cocaine,…

that happens in the body when people smoke. It can be the most addictive drugs without people knowing it. There are many drugs in the world that people don’t know the long term effects it has on their brain and body such as marijuana, pcp and crack cocaine. Marijuana is a plant that can be grown which the marijuana…