The chemical cocaine hydrochloride is commonly known as crack. There are users who chemically process cocaine in order to eradicate the hydrochloride. This process is called “freebasing” and makes the drug more potent. “Crack” is a concrete form of freebased cocaine. It is named “crack” because it snaps and cracks when heated and smoked. Since crack is a ready form of freebased cocaine, the user does not have to be exposed to the explosive chemicals associated with freebasing. Crack is normally in vials and sold in small quantities, usually 300-500mg or enough for two to three inhalations.
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The psychological or behavioral pattern that happens to a person and is believed to give distress that is unexpected a part of one’s culture is called mental disorder. A mental illness may be possibly caused by several factors such as genetics, environment, and chemical imbalances in the brain. It is called mental basically because normally, the illness does not engage much anatomical dysfunctions. Usually, the disorder involves a thinking that something is wrong when physically, it seemed as if nothing is wrong. The symptoms are more internal rather than external. People may think that it is normal for someone to be talking to himself for a while. However, when this symptom last longer, longer than a certain period and disrupts bodily functions, then a mental illness may be diagnosed.
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Emotions are a part of life. It is part of being human. In fact, it is what makes us human. We laugh when we are happy, we cry when we are sad and disappointed, and we let out our rage when we are furious and mad. And, that is natural. Everyday, we express various emotions more than we could envision. Typically, life events that we encounter trigger these emotions. And the body, as emotional feelings are natural to it, is able to manage with these expressions of emotions through a cycle. As psychologists would say, an individual does not feel the same emotion over a very long period of time. What we feel eventually changes. To be specific, the longest time you could feel happy is ten days. After that, the feeling of happiness sinks, probably shifting to anxiety or sadness.
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Public Health Alert about Cocaine or Crack Use
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Addiction has been a problem to society. It is “the” problem that seems to not end. People use drugs, abuse it, then they become depended to it. They hurt their loved ones and they hurt their selves. Their lives long for for the drug and become entwined to looking for means of attaining the drugs. Later on, the person then realizes that life has become worthless and meaningless and that he wants to change. He wants to turn away from drugs but the problem is that he couldn’t easily turn away and say good bye to his long time influential friend- the drug.
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May 11, 2010 7:00 am | 
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