Crack cocaine

choice to become involved in the drug game at age 11, despite what his older brother Tony advised him to do. "She reached again for the first Nike box and opened it. Inside were pills, marijuana, half an ounce of power cocaine, and half a dozen vials of "ready rocks," or "crack cocaine" (Moore 73). Wes’s mother, Mary Moore, found drugs under Wes ' possession. She know had to face the sad reality that both of her sons were drug dealers. A turning point in the Author Wes’s life was when he…

A typical American family has a mother, a father, and a couple of children. The father provides for the family, as does the mother either domestically and or by working; however my family does not fit the ideal image of an American family. My mother was the one who raised me, but I would not quite call her a mother. Ever since I can remember she was always sick, never healthy and was addicted to drugs. When she was pregnant with me she would use illegal substances and she was also a diabetic.…

County Jail to Allegheny County Treatment Alternative (ACTA). G. F. presents with Opioid Use Disorder (F11.10), severe and Cocaine Use Disorder (F14.10), severe. Client stated that before incarceration he was using approximately 20 to 25 bag of heroin per day and smoking approximately $100 to $150 worth of crack cocaine per day. G. F. stated that he began using both heroin and cocaine at the age of 23. Client shared that his drug use has led…

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parties, not thinking of its future consequences. Drugs soon replaced the alcohol and began using marijuana. She thought it of no harm to her because she did not consider it a “hard” drug like cocaine or morphine. Although she swore to herself to never use such drugs, Sharon soon started using crack cocaine to deal with her personal and family problems. To fund her drug addiction, she worked as a prostitute and a hustler for drug dealers but soon started selling drugs herself to make more of a…

They will either take really powerful drugs or just a lot of them or they will drink so much they pass out. So I am talking about drugs like PCP or Angel Dust, meth, crack cocaine, roofies, and GHB or club drugs in other words, drugs that have not only give a powerful high but also have a really toxic effect on your brain especially the part that controls memory. They will also have sex, most of the time unprotected,…

When asked about Flakka don’t know the details. Most people just know the basic details,like Flakka is a crystal-like substance and it is one of the strongest drugs on the market today. By market I do mean black market. In my experiences most people even have even joked about it by describe people who act crazy and unreasonably as being on flakka. Obviously they do not know the gravity and seriousness of the subject.The more prominent flakka becomes in the world the more dangerous it will become…

The highest prevalence of injecting drug use in North America occurs in British Columbia, with the majority of those living in Vancouver and Victoria (Kerr and Wood, 2007). The most used injectable drugs are crack, cocaine, heroin, crystal meth and prescription opioids (University of Victoria, 2014a). In 2011, three hundred and seventy-one people died of drug overdoses in British Columbia, Twenty-nine of those deaths occurred in the Greater Victoria area (BC Vital…

Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant that directly affects the brain and the central nervous system. Many users are unaware of the psychological effects that cocaine has on the brain. The user is mainly worried about using the drug and getting “high” and not the effects that the drug has on their body and brain. Cocaine is a psychoactive drug affecting the central nervous system. Cocaine eats away chunks of the brain and increases blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature, often…

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…