Cocaine Informative Speech
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Matt Lawler
Miss. Roe
8th Grade English
4/23/13
Cocaine
Cocaine is a Local Anesthetic and is unusual due to its affects on the brain. Usually Local Anesthetics have a common molecule with one slight difference that creates amides or esters, but cocaine has a completely different molecule setup but is still considered a Local Anesthetic. Its molecule is a complex alkaloid. This can cross the blood brain barrier and can have major affects on the brain and central nervous system. I will tell you what cocaine is, what its affects are, and what penalties and treatment you can receive. Cocaine is a local anesthetic and is categorized as a stimulant that’s administered through snorting, injecting, …show more content…
The main goal is to retain the patient from the drug and disrupt the binge cycle (the craving of the drug), and prevent relapse. During rehab patients are also separated from the environmental cues that are associated with cocaine. Patients also receive some sort of psychological therapy and educational lectures.
“It blows me away to see people younger than my father (was), and for them it`s becoming fashionable and glamorous to do heroin and put eight pounds of cocaine up your nose a night”- Freddie Prinze Jr.
Do not do cocaine to any extent. You will receive many penalties for the possession of this drug. Penalties from Iowa Drug Possession Charges categorize cocaine as a schedule 2 drug. This is categorized as “high potential for abuse” but may have a valid medical use. "It was almost like falling in love... It became my boyfriend, my best friend, my family." - On her cocaine addiction (Us Weekly, April 2003) - Yasmine Bleeth On the next page are the Iowa drug possession charges. (Iowa Criminal Defense Lawyer)
Matt Lawler
Miss. Roe
8th Grade English
4/23/13
Cocaine
Cocaine is a Local Anesthetic and is unusual due to its affects on the brain. Usually Local Anesthetics have a common molecule with one slight difference that creates amides or esters, but cocaine has a completely different molecule setup but is still considered a Local Anesthetic. Its molecule is a complex alkaloid. This can cross the blood brain barrier and can have major affects on the brain and central nervous system. I will tell you what cocaine is, what its affects are, and what penalties and treatment you can receive. Cocaine is a local anesthetic and is categorized as a stimulant that’s administered through snorting, injecting, …show more content…
The main goal is to retain the patient from the drug and disrupt the binge cycle (the craving of the drug), and prevent relapse. During rehab patients are also separated from the environmental cues that are associated with cocaine. Patients also receive some sort of psychological therapy and educational lectures.
“It blows me away to see people younger than my father (was), and for them it`s becoming fashionable and glamorous to do heroin and put eight pounds of cocaine up your nose a night”- Freddie Prinze Jr.
Do not do cocaine to any extent. You will receive many penalties for the possession of this drug. Penalties from Iowa Drug Possession Charges categorize cocaine as a schedule 2 drug. This is categorized as “high potential for abuse” but may have a valid medical use. "It was almost like falling in love... It became my boyfriend, my best friend, my family." - On her cocaine addiction (Us Weekly, April 2003) - Yasmine Bleeth On the next page are the Iowa drug possession charges. (Iowa Criminal Defense Lawyer)