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About Crack

Crack cocaine is a highly addictive form of cocaine that is popular for its intense high.

It is a diluted form of the drug and a small amount of cocaine can be expanded into increasingly larger and weaker amounts of crack cocaine. Crack cocaine, often nicknamed "crack", is believed to have been created and made popular during the 1980s.

Crack's main effect is to release a large amount of dopamine, a brain chemical inducing feelings of euphoria.

The high usually lasts around 15 minutes, after that time dopamine levels in the brain plummet, leaving the user feeling depressed and low.

A typical response among users is to have another hit of the drug, however, the levels of dopamine in the brain take a long time to replenish themselves, and each hit taken in rapid succession leads to increasingly less intense highs.

It is the intense desire to recapture the initial high that makes crack cocaine so highly addictive for many users.

If you (or someone you care about) has a problem with Crack, contact us now on 08000 380 480 for a fast, easy confidential consultation.

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