Crack Cocaine

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Crack Cocaine is often sold in little baggies

Crack cocaine and freebase cocaine, which refers to smokable cocaine, are some of the most misunderstood drugs that are commonly abused today. When one thinks about a crack user, an image from the movies of a dirty street person in the inner city often pops to mind, but crack is abused by people that come from all socio-economic backgrounds and all walks of life. Addiction to crack cocaine is also one of the hardest to break from a psychological standpoint – one of the hardest tasks for the loved ones of a crack user is getting them to come off a “run” and into a program of recovery.

There are two main forms of smokable cocaine, “freebase” and “crack

Crack cocaine is a pre made, smokable version of powder cocaine. When cocaine is made smokable, it becomes much more pure than powder cocaine, and as such, can give the user a much quicker and more intense high than other methods of cocaine. There are two main forms of smokable cocaine, “freebase” and “crack”. Both freebase and crack undergo a process to take the powdered cocaine hydrochloride, which is the powdered from of cocaine, and which is not able to be smoked, and separates out the cocaine base, which is able to be smoked. The result is a more potent drug by weight with a delivery system that can lead to a near instantaneous high for the user.

Freebase cocaine Freebase cocaine is generally hand made by the user, and involves a potentially dangerous process that leaves the user with almost pure cocaine base as the result of the process. Crack on the other hand, tends to be made in larger batches for illicit sale, and is made in a less dangerous process, although the user is left with a drug that has much more impurities and which is about half as strong by weight of freebase cocaine.

Crack Addiction and Treatment

Crack is one of the most psychologically addictive drugs that is used today, and the user presents with a compulsion to use that is rarely found in other drugs, even those that are much more physically addictive. Once a user starts smoking freebase or crack, they will often take another hit seconds after smoking the first one, even though the effect of the drug can last for five or ten minutes, and this can lead to toxic levels of the drug in the users system. Although a medical detox is often not indicated solely for crack cocaine, the user often combines crack with other drugs such as alcohol or benzodiazepines to help them “come down” from the drug, and the combination of the drugs may make a short detox necessary After detox would come the drug rehab treatment phase of the recovery.

We at Ambrosia Treatment Center have a proven method that works. Anyone willing to work at getting better can benefit from these methods and change life-long self defeating behavior patterns.

Treatment should have three main focuses

The drug rehab phase of the crack cocaine user’s recovery is an essential step to help them build a solid foundation for a lifetime of sobriety. The treatment should have three main focuses. First, the patient needs to work a course of relapse prevention, in which they focus on the psychological and environmental stressors that lead to them craving and using the drug.

Secondly, they work closely with a therapist to help identify and work through the underlying issues in their personal history that led to their original and continued use.

Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, they must construct an aftercare plan that will help them with the daily maintenance necessary to keep the sobriety that they achieved in treatment.

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