3 * Crack
Crack is a derivative of cocaine, also known as cocaine base or free base. Crack is a mixture of cocaine, baking soda and / or ammonia, which comes in the form of pebbles. The user inhales as smoke after having heated. This causes cracks, origin of its name
Effects and Risks
This mode of consumption causes effects more intense and shorter than those of cocaine and depression that follows is even more marked. Regular use of crack can cause hallucinations and cause violent behavior, paranoid or suicidal.
Regular use of crack can cause:
- Damage Quick on the brain;
- Severe respiratory impairment;
- Respiratory arrest and / or heart can cause death;
- States of physical and mental exhaustion with impaired general condition;
- Skin lesions (hands and lips) are related to consumption practices.
Its regular use can quickly create a strong psychological dependence and neurotoxicity (neuronal degeneration) very important.
Users, even after ceasing to consume, and are often long (several months) subject to alterations in mood and a desire very important to resume the Drugs ( "craving"), causing frequent episodes of relapse.
As for cocaine, there is no treatment for substitution as those that exist for opiates. The management uses various techniques (anti-depressants, therapy groups and / or individual motivational therapy.).
It must in all cases based on a long and continuous support