Children and adolescents have increasingly used drugs, including tobacco and alcohol. Most of them even try the newest drug nowadays. As a parent, you have a big impact on your child’s decision not to use drugs and you should take advantage of it. Before you start talking about the dangers of substance use, don’t forget to update your knowledge to the fullest.
The article below will help you generalize one of the most dangerous stimulants today Crack Cocaine.
What is Crack Cocaine?
Cocaine is a powerful stimulant drug made from the leaves of the coca plant native to South America. Currently, in South America, there are about 5 million coca addicts. Although hospitals and medical centers may use it for valid medical purposes, recreational use of cocaine is illegal.
Cocaine comes in 2 forms:
- Powder: A white powder. Vendors often mix it with things like cornstarch, talc, or flour to increase profits. They also mix cocaine with other stimulants such as amphetamine or synthetic opioids. Adding synthetic opioids to cocaine is particularly risky as the increasing number of deaths from overdose in cocaine users may be related to this fake cocaine.
- Crystal form: Also known as Crack. Chemical products formed in the form of small, shiny crystals linked together into small blocks like pebbles. When they smoke Crack, they make a crackling noise, so they are called Crack. Crack Cocaine is the most common form of cocaine used by smoking rather than by inhalation, both of which have maximum euphoric effects. This drug is easy to store, easy to transport, so it is widely used in many countries
How does Crack Cocaine affect your child’s body?
The effects of Cocaine Cocaine appear almost immediately after use. Users will feel high, excited, energetic, alert. That’s because Crack Cocaine acts on your child’s brain, preventing the gradual decrease of dopamine – a transmitter in the brain that makes people feel happy, excited, and optimistic.
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The long-term effects of Crack Cocaine to your child’s body
Physically
Some of the long-term health effects of cocaine depend on the method of use and include the following:
- Snorting: severe inflammation, swelling, bleeding, ulceration of the nasal mucosa, loss of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose. Crack Cocaine inhalation is less dangerous than injecting and smoking.
- Smoking: cough, asthma, respiratory failure and a higher risk of infections such as pneumonia
- Consumption using mouth: severe intestinal breakdown due to decreased blood flow
- Needle injection: higher risk of infection, embolism, HIV infection, hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases.
When using high doses of cocaine, users can experience seizures, respiratory failure, myocardial infarction, and these complications can be fatal. Death can also be caused by the combined use of opioids with cocaine.
Mentally
People in cocaine use will experience several emotional disturbances ranging from mild mania to depression (common during the cocaine withdrawal phase). Besides, your child will experience panic and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
How can parents prevent the germ of Crack Cocaine in the first place?
You should have lots of intimate conversations with your child about substance use in general and Crack Cocaine in particular. Pick times when both you and your kids are comfortable and cannot be interrupted – and don’t forget to put your phone aside. You can:
- Ask your child’s views on Crack Cocaine: Instead of preaching, listen to your child’s opinions and questions about Crack Cocaine.
- Let’s discuss the reasons for not using Crack Cocaine: Instead of being intimidated, emphasize how using Crack Cocaine can affect the things that are important to your child.
- Install Internet filtering software so you can see if your child searches for information about drugs or drugs.
- Pay attention to what your child watches: Social media, TV shows, movies, and songs can either fascinate or trivialize drug use. Talk about what your child sees and hears.
- Discuss ways to resist pressure and calls from friends: Show me how to deftly decline an invitation to use Crack Cocaine.
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