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Causes and Effects of Cocaine My essay is going to be on the causes and effects of cocaine, the most highly used drug in America. Cocaine is a drug derived from the coca plant, Erythroxylon coca, mostly grown in South America. Cocaine is a central nervous system stimulant, the most powerful found in nature. It is most often found in the form of a white crystalline powder. These are some nicknames of cocaine: Coke, snow (zas in Apache slang), C, flake, blow, and lady. “These are some facts of cocaine: 1-tenth of the population- over 22 million people have tried cocaine; Each day 5,000 more people will experiment with it; It is a $35 billion illicit industry now exceeding Columbia’s number one coffee export.” – drughelp.org Cocaine use can cause anxiety, irritability, aggressiveness, paranoia, feelings of bugs crawling under the skin, violence, confusion, apathy, concentration problems, also memory problems, nervousness, restlessness, seeing, hearing, and smelling things that are not there.
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