Crack cocaine

Cocaine, also known as coke is a strong addictive drug. It is commonly snorted, smoked, and even injected. History of Controlled Substance Cocaine is and very old drug, thousands of years ago the Incas use to chew on the coca leaves. They used it to get their hearts racing and to speed their breathing to counter the effects of living in thin mountain air. However cocaine didn’t get extracted from the leaves until 1859 by German chemist Albert Neimann. It didn’t get popularized until the…

Millions of dollars were spent on luxury homes, private jets, ranches, and even historical artifacts (Drug). In 1984, Pablo Escobar was named the seventh richest man in the world (Gangster). Pablo even had his own zoo on one of his estates. It was complete with elephants, buffaloes, lions, rhinos, gazelles, hippos, camels, ostriches, and a herd of zebras. Pablo was also known for his immature, frivolous spending. He would have beauty queens to come and entertain some of his closest friends. He…

individuals have been using psychoactive substances since ancient times. The first historical records show that cannabis was used in 4000 B.C. in Central Asia and North West China. The use of the coca leaf, which holds the primary ingredient to make cocaine, was used as early as 3000 B.C in the Andeans Mountain range in South America. One of the oldest uses of psychoactive substances dates back even further. The cultivation and use of opium dates back as early as 4,200 B.C. in Europe. In ancient…

the history of cocaine and its emergence into today’s society. I will also discuss the side effects of cocaine abuse, and addiction. Cocaine is a stimulant that has been around for thousands of years. The emergence of cocaine began with its origin in Peru, dating as far back as 2500 BC (Hansen, Venturelli, & Fleckenstein, 2012). According to history, cocaine use appeared in three stages with its recent, major stage of existence occurring in the 1980s. During the first era cocaine was used as a…

The war on alcohol and on drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, and opium were efforts to restore social control. In the face of changing demographics and rising social insecurity, prohibitionists campaigned for federal laws to fight against the liquor trade and narcotics and eradicate the social ills they believed the substances caused. Social class, ethnicity, race, and religious struggles shaped the passage of laws prohibiting alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and opium use. For alcohol, a variety of…

The issue, in this case, is the adoption of a newborn family member who may have been exposed to the mom’s cocaine use in the uterus. Drug abuse is common among many youths. Cocaine addiction is quite common among women of childbearing age. The cocaine is either smoked or injected into the system. The drug has many health effects of an individual but has the most adverse effects on the newborn babies. To judge whether one should adopt the newborn baby or not, one should first identify the…

Fighting Marijuana One the most controversial issues of 2016, the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana also known as weed. Current president Barrack Obama himself in an interview with the Rolling Stones expressed his views on Marijuana. He believes that marijuana should be legalized and taxed the way alcohol and tobacco are. Is this really a good idea? Yes, this would create more jobs and lower the unemployment rate, but not for long if America becomes a country full of potheads.…

Societal cultural beliefs dictate that a person behave as a decent human being by treating others with kindness and respect as well as being a law abiding citizen. Culture plays a large role by shaping the individuals expectations about avoiding drugs and warning about the dangers of drug abuse. Consequently, when heroin abusers put a higher value on drugs and a lower value on acceptable culture, a negative relationship developed with expected cultural beliefs. When individual groups, such as…

definition of cocaine is a drug extracted from coca leaves. Normally cocaine is a crystalline powder. The molecular formula of cocaine is C17H21NO4. Due to the chemical trait of cocaine, Cocaine is dissolved in both water and oil. Cocaine was originally brought to Europe by the invasion of Espanaans in the 16th century in South America. The extraction of alkaloids in 1860 made its structure and efficacy known. In 1884, local anesthetic action of cocaine was demonstrated. Originally, cocaine has…

America’s most beloved soda (Coca Cola) use to contain the teratogen Cocaine. This substance was once thought to be potentially helpful, soon became abused and addictive. Cocaine affects around thousands if not more of its users and ends up leaving them in a very dangerous health state. Regardless of how it is being used, the pleasurable effects it gives off automatically hooks the user and becomes uncontrollably addicting. The abuse of Cocaine ends up leaving the user with short-term, long-term…