Cocaine

Street Names

• Coke
• Snow 
• Flake 
• Dust
• Nose Candy 

Information

• Cocaine is concentrated in the reward pathway. 
• Active in the part of controlling voluntary movement.
• Powerful negative effects on heart, brain, and emotions.
• Effects wear off after 30 minutes to 2 hours.

Feelings after using..

• Increase energy and alertness
• Elevates mood
• Anxiety 
• Restlessness 
• Irritability

Short Term Affects

• Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature. 
• Feel paranoid, anger, anxious, hostile
• Dilated pupils
• Disturbed sleep patterns
• Increased rate of breathings

Long Term Effects

• Severe tooth decay
• Increased frequency of risky behavior
• Tolerance and addiction
• Severe depression
• Permanent damage to blood vessels of heart and brain

Affects on brain

• Dopamine transmitters remove particles from synaptic cleft
• Cocaine blocks transmitters leaving dopamine trapped in synaptic cleft
• Dopamine binds again and again to receptors overstimulating cells