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Cocaine Use in Adolescents and Young Adults

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Cocaine is one the most dangerous drugs available to troubled teenagers and young adults. Cocaine is very addictive and the addiction can be difficult to combat. Cocaine can be used in various ways. These techniques include smoking it, injecting it, and snorting it. Snorting and injection are the two most common techniques of using cocaine in our adolescents and young adults today. "Crack" cocaine is the name for the free base cocaine that is used for smoking. 

Cocaine is not one of the most commonly abused drugs by troubled teenagers and young adults. However, cocaine addiction is still present in our youth today. The cocaine high is often the main reason for taking cocaine, although social cocaine use is also quite common.

The Effects of Cocaine Use

The cocaine high involves psychological changes as well as physical changes. The main cocaine high that most cocaine users want to experience is an intense pleasure called euphoria. While high on cocaine, some users develop a sense a self confidence to the point of feeling superior to other people. Another tempting cocaine effect is that during a cocaine high, users may feel more energetic and sociable.

When people take cocaine for a long periods of time, they often being to have the opposite effects of the high that drew them to the drug in the first place. Most teenagers and young adults addicted to cocaine will begin to feel sadness, unmotivated, and will often times withdraw themselves from other people. They then become frustrated and angry because the drug they once consumed to self medicate themselves has now become their enemy, but they now mentally and physically depend on the drug regardless of the effects.