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Hey Doc isn't there a Korean proverb that goes something like "beware of what you ask for, you just might get it" LOL

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What is crack:
Crack is the street name for a crystallized form of cocaine made into small lumps or rocks. Cocaine hydrochloride is processed with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and water and heated to remove the hydrochloride, thus producing a free base form of cocaine that can be smoked. The term crack refers to the crackling sound heard when the mixture is smoked.
Adverse affects of crack use:
After a long bout or binge of using crack, users often experience a crash, which is very unpleasant. Usually a user will be physically and mentally exhausted and will sleep for 12 to 18 hours and wake up very hungry. Some common side effects of crack use include: increased heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar level, alertness, anxiety, sex drive and dehydration. Some users also report paranoia, feelings of sadness and depression, sweating, muscle twitching and hallucinations.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.

A survey of 1220 street-recruited crack cocaine smokers revealed that crack smokers may turn to drug injection to ease crack withdrawal. Crack smokers who later injected tended to smoke crack more heavily and for longer periods than those who did not inject. The initiation of injection was significantly associated with ever snorting heroin (prevalence ratio [PR] = 3.4, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.0-5.9) or snorting heroin specifically while smoking crack (PR = 2.3, 95% CI = 1.3-4.0), suggesting that snorted heroin use may mediate the transition to injection among crack smokers. Programs to prevent and treat crack dependence may prevent later injection and injection-related infections including HIV.

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Among crack smoking men and women who do not consider themselves to be commercial sex workers, a majority report participating in sex for crack exchanges, or sex for money to buy crack. Additionally, some have reported that in some ?trances? (sites where drugs are sold, and occasionally consumed), the exchange of sex for crack between drug sellers and drug users is very common. Crack users rarely use condoms in these exchanges.

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If a user does not take care of their health and they are using a lot of crack they may experience what?s called ?doing the chicken?. This refers to a type of blackout or seizure. Indications that someone is ?doing the chicken? include: increased heart rate and blood pressure and uncontrollable body twitches. A person often does not recognize the people around them and afterwards they may have no memory of events. In rare circumstances, sudden death may occur when an individual?s heart stops. When people mix crack and alcohol they create a new compound called Coacaethylene, which intensifies crack?s euphoric effects, while possibly increasing the risk of sudden death.

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The physical cost is also great. The first thing you notice about a serious addict is that their teeth are rotten or gone. This is an effect of the chemicals and heat combined. Addicts get so thin and malnourished that they resemble photos of people who are starving to death. They literally stop eating for days at a time. It?s not just a distraction, they lose all appetite. They can?t force themselves to eat while the cocaine is in their system. They get sores, on their feet, from wearing the same shoes for days, or on their arms and faces, from picking at themselves.

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To all you pompous "senior member" a/h who responded to my thread, G/F/Y. I have asked some of you for help in the past and despite your condescending replies, you were absolutely no help and didn't have the correct solutions to my problems. I find it hilarious that some of you took my "thread" so seriously! It's the attitude that you guys "think" you know so much more (other than your some of your "senior member" cronies") that piss me off.

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Best Buy will have a media sale pretty much once a week. Usually SOny fuji or verbs. And because it's every week they don't have time to change the label everyonce in a while. You just take it to the register even though it may say 30 bucks on the rack.

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