Drugs

Cocaine

Cocaine Crack Cocaine Street Dosage

Slang Names:

blow, nose candy, snowball, tornado, wicky stick

Description:

White crystalline powder
"Crack" or "rock" cocaine is an off-white chunky material.
Powder cocaine is generally snorted or dissolved in water and injected.
Crack cocaine is usually smoked

Symptoms / Consequences:

Cocaine is powerfully addictive.
Smoking crack can cause severe chest pains with lung trauma and bleeding.
The mixing of cocaine and alcohol create cocaethylene while increasing risk of sudden death.
Cocaine-related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizures followed by respiratory arrest.