6. Cocaine
Cocaine is a powerful stimulant drug made from the leaves of a coca plant native to South America. It provides its user with short term euphoria, energy and a rapidly increased heart rate and blood pressure rate. It can be smoked, snorted or injected and produces only a short term high – leading most users to binge administer it. It affects the dopamine system and addicts have to take more and more of it to feel its high after each use. An overdose can kill you in minutes by causing cardiac arrest or a stroke.
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