Crack is basically cocaine in a solid and freebase form. Along with cocaine, crack is one of the most widely used and most dangerous drugs in the United States today. Crack is used by smoking it through a glass pipe or hash pipe. Since crack is inhaled through smoking it, the drug mixes easily and quickly inside the user’s body giving them immediate results. The effects are crack are more immediate but short lived as compared to cocaine. Like Cocaine, Crack has many street names. Some of them are: 247,Badrock,Beat,Candy,Chemical,Cloud, Cookies, Crumbs, Crunch & munch, Devil Drug, Dice, Electric Kool-Aid, Fat bags, French fries, Glo, Gravel, Grit, Hail, Hard Ball, Hard Rock, Hot Cakes, Ice Cube, Jelly Beans, Nuggets, Paste, Piece, etc.
The withdrawal symptoms of crack are very hard, and it is very hard for users of crack to get rid of this habit because of this. Some withdrawal symptoms associated with this drug are anger, tremors, depression, fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, intense craving for the drug, irritability, nausea, etc.
Users of crack experience short term effects such as weight loss, feelings of euphoria, increase in pleasure, lowering of anxiety levels, and increase in confidence and assertiveness, which leads to lowering of social inhibitions, hyper-alertness, etc.
Long term effects of crack are hyper sexuality, extreme euphoria, paranoia, lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, increase in blood pressure and heart rate, heart attack, stroke, reduced interest in food, sex and family, and death.