Cocaine | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
2024年1月10日 · Cocaine is an addictive stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylon coca) which is native to South America. Cocaine can be snorted through the nose, rubbed into gums, injected into the bloodstream, or smoked. Serious medical complications can occur with cocaine use, including cocaine use disorder and overdose.
Cocaine - Wikipedia
Cocaine (from French cocaïne, from Spanish coca, ultimately from Quechua kúka) [13] is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system stimulant. As an extract, it is mainly used recreationally and often illegally for its euphoric and rewarding effects.
Cocaine - DEA.gov
Cocaine is an intense, euphoria-producing stimulant drug with strong addictive potential. Blow, Coca, Coke, Crack, Crank, Flake, Rock, Snow, Soda Cot. How is it abused? Snorted or dissolved in water and injected. Cocaine users usually binge on the drug until they are exhausted or run out of cocaine. Crack cocaine is smoked.
Cocaine Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of COCAINE is a bitter crystalline alkaloid C17H21NO4 obtained from coca leaves that is used especially in the form of its hydrochloride medically as a topical anesthetic and illicitly for its euphoric effects and that may result in a compulsive psychological need.
Cocaine | Definition, Uses & Addiction | Britannica
4 天之前 · cocaine, white crystalline alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca), a bush commonly found growing wild in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador and cultivated in many other countries. The chemical formula of cocaine is C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4.
Cocaine - MedlinePlus
2024年1月24日 · Cocaine is a very addictive drug that is made from leaves of the coca plant found in South America. It is mostly available as an illegal drug that some people use to get high. In rare cases, it is also used as a prescription drug for for anesthesia during certain surgeries.
Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug. For thousands of years, people in South America have chewed and ingested coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), the source of cocaine, for their stimulant effects. 1,2 The purified chemical, cocaine hydrochloride, was isolated from the plant more than 100 years ago.
Cocaine is an intense, euphoria-producing stimulant drug with strong addictive potential. WHAT IS ITS ORIGIN? Cocaine is derived from coca leaves grown in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. The cocaine manufacturing process takes place in remote jungle labs where the raw product undergoes a series of chemical transformations.
Cocaine Illicit Use: Addiction, Overdosage, and Drug Testing
What is cocaine? Cocaine (C 17 H 21 NO 4) is a powerfully addictive, psychoactive, stimulant drug. On the street it is usually sold as a fine, white crystal powder. The powdered, hydrochloride salt form can be snorted or dissolved in water and injected. Use in any form is illegal in the U.S. when used as recreational drug.
Cocaine - Drug Fact Sheet - DEA.gov
2020年6月5日 · DEA's revised and updated drug fact sheet about cocaine - what it is, its origin, what are common street names, what does it look like, how it is abused, what its effect is on the mind and bodies of users including signs of overdose, and its legal status.