Crack Cocaines Effect on the Brain

STIMULANTS: Amphetamines, Cocaine (p.1)
(analogous to use of free -base cocaine or “CRACK”) both of these forms of the drug are smoked/inhaled, which because of an almost immediate effect in the brain are markedly more addictive than when the drugs … Access Document

Cocaine And Pregnancy
Recreational cocaine use is usually by inhalation, by injection or by smoking crack, a defects that have been reported with maternal cocaine use include abnormalities of the brain The combined effect of cocaine and other drugs may be worse than cocaine alone. … View Doc

Cocaine & Crack
The brain quickly, which gives the user an immediate and very intense high. to get the desired effect) occurs in some people but not in others. Cocaine and Crack Information(brochure), Vancouver … Fetch Doc

Major Stimulants
* Associated with Chronic Use Tolerance (needing more of the drug to get the same effect) Drug psychosis (may last for months or years after drug use is discontinued) Effects of Overdose Brain * * * The effects are related to cocaines’ actions on the sympathetic branch of the ANS. … Access Content

Cocaine:
“Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant that directly affects the brain” (What is Cocaine, 1). Snorting the drug does not have as intense an effect as does smoking it in the form of crack however the effects last longer. … Retrieve Doc