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Cocaine increases alertness, feelings of well-being, euphoria, energy, sociability, and sexuality. The former are some of the desired effects of cocaine intoxication. Not having the normal use of mental faculties by reason of the introduction of cocaine is defined drug intoxication by the laws in America, Europe, and most of the rest of the world, and it is a serious crime in specific contexts ...
In the United States, past year cocaine users in 2019 was 5.5 million for people aged 12 or older. When broken into age groups, ages 12–17 had 97,000 users; ages 18–25 had 1.8 million users and ages 26 or older had 3.6 million users. [10] Past year cocaine users with a cocaine use disorder in 2019 was 1 million for people aged 12 or older.
Women and men are both more likely to be arrested for less serious property crimes, but men are more likely than women to be involved in violent crime. [2] Since 1960, while arrests in total have decreased, women have become a higher percentage of those arrests , partly due to an increase in drug-related arrests .
Over 68,000 pounds of cocaine have been seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2024, the agency notes on its website. Getty Stock image of a vehicle of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
A woman smoking crack cocaine in San Francisco, California, in December 2005. Crack cocaine is commonly used as a recreational drug. Effects of crack cocaine include euphoria, [11] supreme confidence, [12] loss of appetite, [11] insomnia, [11] alertness, [11] increased energy, [11] a craving for more cocaine, [12] and potential paranoia (ending ...
Co-occurring psychiatric disorders are more common among women than men who abuse substances; women more frequently use substances to reduce the negative effects of these co-occurring disorders. Substance abuse puts both men and women at higher risk for perpetration and victimization of sexual violence. [108]
These were some big baggies. Border Patrol agents found two backpacks stuffed with $1.1 million worth of cocaine dumped near the border with Canada.
Two dogs that mauled a 73-year-old woman in Ohio last year had cocaine in their systems, according to pathology reports obtained this week by the Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY Network.