The chemical cocaine hydrochloride is commonly known as crack. There are users who chemically process cocaine in order to take away the hydrochloride. This process is called “freebasing” and makes the drug more potent. “Crack” is a concrete form of freebased cocaine. It is called “crack” because it snaps and cracks when heated and smoked. Since crack is a prepared form of freebased cocaine, the user does not have to be exposed to the explosive chemicals associated with freebasing. Crack is normally in vials and sold in small quantities, usually 300-500mg or enough for two to three inhalations.
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During pregnancy, the woman is greatly at risk and vulnerable to toxins and other harmful substances. Alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs are substances known as teratogens. Teratogens are substances that cause negative effects towards the fetus inside the mother’s womb. These substances would in turn result to a sick or worse, abnormal baby.
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Addiction has been a problem to society. It is “the” trouble that seems to not end. People use drugs, abuse it, then they become depended to it. They hurt their loved ones and they hurt their selves. Their lives crave for the drug and become entwined to looking for means of attaining the drugs. Later on, the person then realizes that life has become worthless and meaningless and that he wants to change. He wants to turn away from drugs but the problem is that he couldn’t easily turn away and say good bye to his long time influential friend- the drug.
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Public Health Alert about Cocaine or Crack Use
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Emotions are a part of life. It is part of being human. In fact, it is what makes us human. We laugh when we are happy, we cry when we are sad and disappointed, and we let out our rage when we are furious and mad. And, that is natural. Everyday, we express various emotions more than we could envision. Typically, situations that we encounter trigger these emotions. And the body, as emotional feelings are natural to it, is able to cope with these expressions of emotions through a cycle. As psychologists would say, an individual does not feel the same emotion over a very long period of time. What we feel sooner or later changes. Precisely saying, the longest time you could feel happy is ten days. After that, the feeling of happiness subsides, probably shifting to anxiety or sadness.
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Drug Rehabilitation Alternatives | Drug Rehab Alternative | 
May 7, 2010 6:00 am | 
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