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Cocaine/Crack Cocaine & Hallucinogens

Drug Facts You Need to Know

Cocaine/Crack Cocaine

Product names: Cocaine, crack cocaine

Street names:
Cocaine—Coke, Snow, Blow, Toot, Nose Candy, Flake, Durst, Sneeze, Yak

Crack Cocaine—Crack, Rock, Base, Sugar Block, Rox/Roxanne

Symptoms of Use:
Excitability, euphoria, talkativeness, anxiety, increased pulse rate, dilated pupils, paranoia, agitation, hallucinations.

Potential Consequences:
High risk of addiction, violent or erratic behavior, hallucinations, cocaine psychosis, eating or sleeping disorders, impaired sexual performance, ongoing respiratory problems, ulceration of the mucous membrane of the nose, collapse of the nasal septum, death from cardiac arrest or respiratory failure.

Route of administration:
Sniffed and smoked

Medical use: None

Legal status:
Illegal


Hallucinogens

Product names: LSD, PCP, DMT, Mescaline, MDA, STP, Rohypnol

Symptoms: Trance-like state, excitation, euphoria, increased pulse rate, insomnia

Potential consequences: Impaired judgment and coordination, self-inflicted injury, violent behavior, paranoia, depression or anxiety, unpredictable flashbacks.

Routes of administration: Ingested

Legal Status: Illegal

Drug Facts You Need to Know