A health project over cocaine

1. Cocaine
By Devon McSurley

2. The history of cocaine
In South America, people would chew and eat coca leaves, a little over a hundred years
ago the leaf was purified leading to cocaine hydrochloride. Cocaine was an ingredient
in many types of things such as Coca-cola. It was also used for pain killers during and
after surgeries. Today it is now illegal, but can still be prescribed as a pain killer for after
surgery.

3. How can cocaine be used?
People with snort cocaine or they rub it into their gums. Another way to use cocaine is
to mix it with water and inject it into the bloodstream. You can also heat it.

4. What else is cocaine called?
● Blow
● Coke
● Crack
● Rock
● Snow

5. What is cocaine classified as?
Cocaine is a stimulant drug.

6. What chemicals are commonly found in
cocaine?
Cocaine is made from the coca plant in South America, and once the plant is purified
there is a chemical called cocaine hydrochloride.

7. What harm does cocaine do?
● Physical-loss sense of smell, problems swallowing, higher risk for HIV, hepatitis C.
● Mental/emotional-irritability, paranoia
● Social- You lose friends
● Legal consequences-you will not be able to get the job you want, your college
loans will be taken away, you can serve jail time.

8. Long term effects of cocaine
● Nervous system-they lose sense of touch
● Cardiovascular system-heart failure
● Digestive system-loss of apetite
● Respiratory system-trouble breathing, lung cancer

9. Short term effects of cocaine
● Nervous system-hypersensitivity
● Cardiovascular system-increase in blood pressure, heart beats faster
● Digestive system-slower to digest
● Respiratory system-more energy, breathing faster and harder

10. Medical Uses of cocaine
Cocaine is used for painkillers after surgery

11. Mixing cocaine
● Mixing cocaine with alcohol can lead to cardiac diseases, comas and seizures.
● Mixing cocaine with heroin leads to problems swallowing, breakdown of muscle
tissue, and coma.

12. Cocaine and society
Cocaine can lead to domestic violence and ineffeciency and an inability to work.

13. Across
2. cocaine used to be in this
6. what cocaine is legally used for
7. you must be 21 to drink this
Down
1. a nickname for heated cocaine
2. cocaine came from this plant
3. short term effect on the nervous system
4. what kind of drug cocaine is
5. cocaine and herion together

14. Sources
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/cocaine
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/cocaine/what-cocaine
https://www.justthinktwice.com/consequences/legal-consequences-using-drugs
http://www.stopcocaineaddiction.com/effects-of-cocaine-on-society.htm