- Crack cocaine comes in a rock crystal form that can be heated and inhaled or smoked.
- Crack cocaine is highly addictive, possibly even more than other forms of cocaine.
- It is called 'crack' in reference to the cracking sound it makes when it is heated, presumably from the sodium bicarbonate that is used in the production of crack.
- Crack cocaine, became enormously popular in the mid-1980s due in part to its almost immediate high and the fact that it is inexpensive to produce and buy.
- The US justice department statistics indicate that about 1-2 million people regularly use crack.
- 27.5 percent of those incarcerated had been regular users of cocaine/crack.
- Crack is a readily available form of cocaine. Cocaine is used because it produces euphoria, is a stimulant, suppresses appetite, and can be used as a pain reliever.
- 3.3 percent of students (high school and college) reported being current users of cocaine, meaning that they had used cocaine at least once during the past 30 days.
- The pleasant effects of crack wear off quickly (5-10 minutes), causing users to feel 'down' or depressed, more than before taking the drug.
- The average age of those admitted to treatment for crack cocaine is 35.7 years.
- Smoking crack cocaine can cause particularly aggressive paranoid behavior in users.
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