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Cocaine
Title: Cocaine
Category: History
Details: Words: 918 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cocaine
It is used in offices, parties, on street corners, in homes, and even in schools. With so much widespread abuse, cocaine is in extreme demand. Cocaine abuse has risen 118% since 1990, and continues to rise. Cocaine addiction is easy to understand-- it [cocaine] produces a good feeling, so naturally people would tend to want more of it. The question now though, is how does it produce these feelings, and why is the addiction so strong. By …showed first 75 words of 918 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 918 total…the brain directly and indirectly. The highs produced by cocaine are actually irregular levels of brain-made neurotransmitters caused by cocaine, not cocaine itself. The addiction is a strong physiological dependence brought about by low levels of ceretonin in the brain. The abuse of cocaine is widespread and is expensive financially as well as physically. After all of the facts presented, the question that remains to be answered about cocaine abuse is not how, but why.
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