Crack

What is it?

Crack is a mixture of cocaine hydrochloride (cocaine powder), baking soda or ammonia and distilled water, which results in little grains, smoked in pipes (improvised or not). It's cheaper than cocaine, but its effect lasts very little, ends up being used in larger quantities, which makes it very expensive habit, because their consumption becomes greater. Stimulating six times more potent than cocaine, crack cocaine causes physical dependence and leads to death by their action on fulminant central nervous system and heart.

What are the reactions of the crack? What he has on the body?

The crack takes 15 seconds to reach the brain and starts to produce its effects: strong rapid heartbeat, increased blood pressure, dilated pupils, profuse sweating, muscle tremor and marked arousal, sensations of apparent well-being, increased physical and mental capacity, indifference to pain and fatigue. But if the physical and psychological pleasures come quickly with a rock of crack, the symptoms of withdrawal syndrome did not take long. In 15 minutes, there is again the need to inhale the smoke of another stone, otherwise inevitably reach the physical, depletion and depression. Scholars like pharmacologist Dr. F. Varella de Carvalho ensure that "every User of crack is a candidate to death," because it can cause irreversible brain damage because of its concentration in the central nervous system.

Crack is a drug stronger than the other?

Yes, people who experience feel a compulsion (an uncontrollable desire) to use it again, quickly establishing a physical dependence, because they want to keep the body at an accelerated pace. The statistics Denarc (State Department of Narcotics Investigation) indicate that in January 1992 of 41 users seeking help on Denarc, 10% used crack and in February of that year, the 147 users were already 20%. These users, most of them are between 15 and 25 years old and come from both poor neighborhoods on the periphery as the rich mansions of the rich neighborhoods. Because crack is a drug of higher powers addictive, the person, only to experience, can become an addict. He is not, however, the first drugs that one experiences.

In general, the User has its other uses, primarily cocaine, and begins to use the crack of curiosity, to feel stronger effects, or lack of money, since it is cheaper per gram than cocaine . However, as the effect of crack is very fast, and suffering by their absence in the body comes in 15 minutes, the User use it in larger quantities, making spending even more than had been doing. To achieve this, then, to sustain this addiction, people begin to use any method to purchase it. Subject to the pressures of the dealer's own addiction and no longer have time to make money honestly, leave, therefore, for the illegal smuggling of drugs, grooming new people for drugs, robberies, assaults, etc.