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Quick Facts About Cocaine

Other Names: Coke, snow, nose candy, flake, blow, big C, lady, white, snowbirds

Effects:

  • Addiction
  • Pupil dilation
  • Elevated blood pressure
  • blood pressure and heart rate
  • Increased respiratory rate
  • Increased risk of exposure to HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases if injected
  • Paranoia
  • Seizures
  • Heart attack
  • Respiratory failure
  • Constricted peripheral blood vessels
  • Restlessness, irritability, anxiety
  • Tactile hallucinations
  • Insomnia
  • Increased body temperature
  • Death from overdose

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