Cocaine and Crack Cocaine Cocaine is an illegal drug in the United States. It is a chemical obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It is classified as a central nervous system stimulant that causes feelings of euphoria as well as increases body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate. It can also be used as a local anesthetic.
A cocaine user, when high, will feel a sense of intense euphoria increasing libido. This is referred to as the flash or rush.
There are various types of cocaine including the white powder that is extracted from the coca leaves and crack cocaine, which looks like small rock crystals. The street names for both cocaine and crack cocaine are coke, blow, Peruvian lady, snow, all-American drug,
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Withdrawal from cocaine usually has no physical symptoms but is often accompanied by depression, anxiety, paranoia, lack of pleasure, and agitation. It is important to make sure the client is not at risk for suicide or a danger to others before releasing him or her from your office.
Since one of the side effects of cocaine is a raised libido, it increases the chance that couples will abuse cocaine together. They think this heightens or intensifies their physical pleasure in their relationship. They will not see cocaine as a destroyer of relationships, but as s strengthener of relationships. However, this is never the case. When counseling a couple, you need to highlight and emphasize the ways in which cocaine has destroyed or hurt their relationship and offer hope and healing from that brokenness.
Be sensitive in your judgments of those who are addicted to cocaine. Do not look on them as weak or morally inferior. Instead see them as people whom God created with intrinsic value. In fact, when people have an addiction, they are abusing substances because they are searching for something greater in life. So, in one sense, you could say that they are in touch with themselves because they sense emptiness inside, but in their