Effects of the Drug
These dangerous effects of cocaine use can cause your heart to race and your blood pressure to spike.
What is an increased heart rate/higher blood pressure?
Looking like sugar powder, a cocaine user can have this residue around their face.
What is white powder?
Cocaine can make you perform better in school or sports.
What is a myth?
This is the most common way cocaine is taken.
What is snorting?
Classification of the drug cocaine.
What is a Stimulant?
Long term cocaine use can damage these three major organs, all essential for survival.
What are the heart, lungs, and brain?
Often happening during the winter to the nose, this is a common sign someone has taken cocaine.
What is a runny nose/nosebleeds?
Cocaine can become addictive even if someone only tries it once.
What is a fact?
This method involves a crack pipe.
What is smoking?
Name at least one slang name for the drug cocaine.
What is Coke, Line, Dust, Snow, and Nose Candy?
Cocaine use can lead to these ultimate outcomes.
What is hospitalization or death?
A side effect of cocaine use, leading someone to look frail is often called this.
What is significant weight loss?
Cocaine only harms you if you use it a lot.
What is a myth?
This method of using cocaine involves delivering the drug directly into the bloodstream with a needle.
What is injecting?
Name one celebrity who has used or overdosed from cocaine.
Who is Stephen King, Whitney Houston, Mac Miller, Angelina Jolie, and Demi Lovato?
This severe consequence of cocaine use can make it hard or impossible to breathe on your own.
What is respiratory failure?
Using a crack pipe to take the drug, this can cause your skin around your lips and fingers to be this.
What is burned lips/fingers?
Cocaine can change your mood and behavior in ways you can’t control.
What is a fact?
Wrapping the drug in tissue or smoking paper and swallowing it, this method is designed to bypass the bitter taste.
What is bombing?
Before becoming a known drug today, cocaine was originally used for this medical purpose.
What is an anesthesia?
Cocaine use can be accompanied by insomnia, paranoia, low spirits, and fatigue, resulting in effecting this.
What is their mental state?
Seeing these effects in someone's eyes can be an indicator that they have cocaine in their system.
What are dilated pupils/bloodshot eyes?
Cocaine is safer if it comes from someone who is trusted or a reliable source.
What is a myth?
FUN FACT BONUS: In 1885 John Pemberton created this substance that originally contained cocaine.
What is Coca-Cola?
What are the legal consideration for having cocaine in CT?
Hint: It depends on how much is in possession
What is a misdemeanor or felony?