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	Stimulant, appetite suppressant		Stimulant, appetite suppressant
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 Powder cocaine (also called coke), freebase and crack are all forms of cocaine. They're all powerful stimulants, with short-lived effects - which means that they temporarily speed up the way your mind and body work, but the effects are short-lived. Both 'freebase' cocaine (powder cocaine that's been prepared for smoking) and 'crack' cocaine (a 'rock' like form of cocaine) can be smoked. This means that they reach the brain very quickly, while snorted powder cocaine gets to the brain more slowly.
-All types of cocaine are addictive, but by reaching the brain very quickly freebase or crack tend to have a much stronger effect and be more addictive than snorted powder cocaine. Injecting any form of cocaine will also reach the brain more quickly but this has serious additional risks, including damaging veins and spreading blood bourne viruses, such as HIV and Hep C (cite:0018).
+All types of cocaine are addictive, but by reaching the brain very quickly freebase or crack tend to have a much stronger effect and be more addictive than snorted powder cocaine. Injecting any form of cocaine will also reach the brain more quickly but this has serious additional risks, including damaging veins and spreading blood bourne viruses, such as HIV and Hep C <ref name="2a">'''Cocaine''', 2016, http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/cocaine</ref>.
 Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man. Once a person begins taking the drug, it has proven almost impossible to become free of its grip physically and mentally. Physically it stimulates key [[receptors]] within the brain that, in turn, create a euphoria to which users quickly develop a tolerance. Only higher dosages and more frequent use can bring about the same effect.
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 * It can make you feel on top of the world, very confident, alert and awake, but some people can get over-confident, arrogant and aggressive and end up taking very careless risks.
 * It raises the body's temperature, makes the heart beat faster and reduces your appetite.
-* When the effects start to wear off, people experience a long 'comedown', when they feel depressed and run down. This crash can happen for days afterwards <ref name="2a">'''Cocaine''', 2016, http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/cocaine</ref>.
+* When the effects start to wear off, people experience a long 'comedown', when they feel depressed and run down. This crash can happen for days afterwards <ref name="2a"/>.
 == What does it look like? ==
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 == Withdrawal ==
-After continued cycle of use and abuse, a person will become addicted to cocaine. When a man or woman discontinues abusing cocaine, the user will experience a withdrawal symptom called a 'crash' or 'come down' (cite:0213).
+After continued cycle of use and abuse, a person will become addicted to cocaine. When a man or woman discontinues abusing cocaine, the user will experience a withdrawal symptom called a 'crash' or 'come down' <ref name="48a">'''Cocaine''', 2017, https://www.addictionhope.com/cocaine/</ref>.
 === Phasal model of cocaine withdrawal ===
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 The early moral ambiguities of these films has been replaced by the now ubiquitous tale of the cops versus the evil drug cartels or their murderous henchmen and while the cocaine wars of recent history have been hideous affairs, it is all too easily forgotten that the 'Iran-Contra' affair and the Noriega saga are examples where political expediency, power and the colossal sums of money involved in the cocaine trade and the ruthless and homicidal tendencies of the political groupings such as FARC, The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the cartels and gangs from the Medellin and Cali cartels, Escobar's war on the state and the current situation in Mexico and Brazil <ref name="7a"/>.
-Humans have known about the stimulant effects of the Coca plant since ancient South American cultures chewed the leaves in everyday activities and religious rituals. Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880's as a surgical anaesthetic, and soon became a common household drug, as well as an ingredient in Coca-Cola and in several types of wines. Snorting cocaine was slowly becoming popular in the early 1900's until the drug was banned in 1914 as a result of the Harrison Act. Abuse began rising again in the 1960's, causing Congress to classify it as a Schedule II drug in 1970 (cite:0318). Later, in the mid-1980's, crack cocaine, which is derived from powder cocaine, became an enormously popular drug of abuse. Today, synthetic forms of cocaine such as Novocain are still used as local anaesthetics for surgical purposes; however, medical use has become more sporadic with the introduction of safer and more improved pharmaceuticals. Illicit, recreational use of cocaine remains popular today <ref name="28a"/>.
+Humans have known about the stimulant effects of the Coca plant since ancient South American cultures chewed the leaves in everyday activities and religious rituals. Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880's as a surgical anaesthetic, and soon became a common household drug, as well as an ingredient in Coca-Cola and in several types of wines. Snorting cocaine was slowly becoming popular in the early 1900's until the drug was banned in 1914 as a result of the Harrison Act. Abuse began rising again in the 1960's, causing Congress to classify it as a Schedule II drug in 1970 <ref name="99a">DEA, '''Drugs of Abuse''', 2015, Drug Enforcement Administration, https://www.dea.gov/pr/multimedia-library/publications/drug_of_abuse.pdf</ref>. Later, in the mid-1980's, crack cocaine, which is derived from powder cocaine, became an enormously popular drug of abuse. Today, synthetic forms of cocaine such as Novocain are still used as local anaesthetics for surgical purposes; however, medical use has become more sporadic with the introduction of safer and more improved pharmaceuticals. Illicit, recreational use of cocaine remains popular today <ref name="28a"/>.
 For over a thousand years people have chewed the leaves of Eryhtoxylon coca, a plant that has many alkaloids, including cocaine.

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 All types of cocaine are addictive, but by reaching the brain very quickly freebase or crack tend to have a much stronger effect and be more addictive than snorted powder cocaine. Injecting any form of cocaine will also reach the brain more quickly but this has serious additional risks, including damaging veins and spreading blood bourne viruses, such as HIV and Hep C (cite:0018).
-Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man. Once a person begins taking the drug, it has proven almost impossible to become free of its grip physically and mentally. Physically it stimulates key \gls{receptors} [fn:9] within the brain that, in turn, create a euphoria to which users quickly develop a tolerance. Only higher dosages and more frequent use can bring about the same effect.
+Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man. Once a person begins taking the drug, it has proven almost impossible to become free of its grip physically and mentally. Physically it stimulates key [[receptors]] within the brain that, in turn, create a euphoria to which users quickly develop a tolerance. Only higher dosages and more frequent use can bring about the same effect.
 Today, cocaine is a worldwide, multibillion-dollar enterprise. Users encompass all ages, occupations and economic levels, even schoolchildren as young as eight years old <ref name="1a">'''Cocaine''', 2016, http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/cocaine.html</ref>.

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