The cocaine industry has its own slang words for the terms named above. Cocaine consumers most likely called it "chewing", "snorting", "mainlining", "injecting", and "smoking". Probably, the most common procedure is snorting, which is inhaling cocaine through your nose, where it is led to the blood stream through your nasal tissues.(NIDA) Others consume cocaine by dissolving the material in hot, boiled water and then inject it by using a needle and a belt or strap to tighten up the blood stream. For those who follow this process, the risk of contracting the HIV virus are a 85 percent, which basically tells you that your life is being cut short.(Gendle 14).
The cost of cocaine has different rates and depends on the status of the product, in other words, is it good cocaine, where has it been imported from and many other facts. In the year of 1998, the purity of cocaine was at a highly 86 percent. Since then, cocaine purity has decreased by roughly 8 percent. Cocaine is not a cheap "hobby", nationwide; you can spend up to $ 35,000 dollars for one kilogram of pure cocaine at its best. Some dealers sell it for as low as $ 12,000 dollars per kilogram.(Dannon and Gottlieb 18).
The consequences and effects of cocaine users are very negative and will result in more serious, dangerous damages in someone's body. As everybody knows, who is familiar with facts about cocaine, cocaine is very addictive to the ones who are consuming it over and over again. Crack cocaine consumers will feel a lot of strong pain in their chest area. It also results with bleeding and lung trauma.(www.cocaine.org) Users who consume cocaine and alcohol at the same time increase the percentage of death, because it causes coca ethylene, which is the worst you can do to your own body. Cocaine also creates its effects in the area of the brain, which is known as nucleus accumbens and it is located in the center of the brain.(NIDA) Once the brain is stimulated it will output feelings of pleasure.
