Saturday, July 5, 2008

How is the drug taken?

Cocaine can be eaten/chewed, snorted, smoked, or injected.

Eaten/Chewed: Effects are attained after approximately after 1 hour and it is sustained for about another hour. When cocaine is chewed/eaten only 1 third of the dose is absorbed, therefore the effect of the drug used through this method has a lesser impact/high feeling than other methods.



Snorted: When cocaine is snorted, the effects begin after a few minutes and lasts between 15 to 30 minutes depending on the size of the dose and the tolerence of the user.



Smoked: When cocaine is smoked the effects come on intensely and immediately, however, the effects wear of as quickly as they've come.



Injected: When cocaine is injected the effects are immediate and very intense. Injecting is probably the best method to feel the highest in the quickest time because none of the dose is lost during the process and this method allows the drug to directly reach the bloodstream. However, the immediacy and intensity of smoking and injecting cocaine makes them more dangerous because of the high possibility of addiction and overdose.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#Effects_and_health_issues

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