What is crack cocaine?

Crack cocaine is a mix of cocaine and baking powder (sodium bicarbonate) and it comes in small lumps or in rock form. When smoked, vapors from the cocaine reach the brain much quicker than snorting, producing an intense but short-lived euphoric rush and a strong desire for more.

Crack is unique because it offers a strong cocaine experience in small, low-priced packages. Crack cocaine is often sold in small, inexpensive dosage units frequently known as “nickels” or “dimes” and sometimes as “twenties” or “solids”, and “forties”.
Although consisting of the same active drug as powder cocaine, crack cocaine in US is seen as a drug primarily by and for the inner city poor. While insufflated powder cocaine has an associated glamour attributed to its popularity among mostly middle and upper class (as well as musicians and entertainers), crack is perceived as a skid row drug of squalor and desperation. To test for cocaine, hair drug testing it the best method to apply.



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