THIS DRUG CAN KILL USERS
While police work to get crack cocaine off the streets, other organizations
in the community are trying to reduce the harmful side effects drug users
face.
Aside from being bad for your health, it can also expose users to deadly
viruses such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C.
Monique Beneteau, Peterborough County-City Health Unit health promoter,
explained crack is made by mixing cocaine with baking soda and water and
heating it.
It then becomes a crystal form that can be smoked.
According to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, smoking crack gives
more of a "rush" than snorting it. The high lasts between
five and 10 minutes.
The agency says people use crack to alter their mood. It can numb bad
feelings and make people feel better. The more often people use crack,
the more they crave it. It isn't just smoked, however.
"Some people will take the crack and reduce it down to a liquid again
so that they can inject it," Beneteau said.
Injection can spread viruses. Some users also mix the crack with
vinegar or lemon juice so it can be injected. "What that can do
is cause abscesses," Beneteau said.
The health unit along with other agencies such as the Peterborough AIDS
Resource Network and Four Counties Addiction Services Team are part of the
Four Counties Needle Exchange Coalition.
The organization provides clean needles to users to prevent the spread of
disease.
In early fall, the organization also started providing users with other
equipment such as ties, filters, vitamin C powder and sterile water.
The vitamin C powder and sterile water is a healthier alternative to using
vinegar or lemon juice when injecting the drug.
City police Deputy Chief Ken Jackman said needle exchange programs and
handing out vitamin C to use with crack cocaine helps reduce harm to
addicts, but it's "a bit of a fine line."
The programs have some merit because you want people to be as safe as
possible, he said, but in some ways it's giving the wrong message.
Some think these kinds of programs are "almost aiding and
abetting" illegal drug use, Jackman said.
"It's a difficult one," he said.
Beneteau was reluctant to speak to the public about the needle exchange
program.
"People have difficulty with the whole concept of harm reduction,"
she said.
"A lot of people think that if we're giving out drug equipment, we're
actually encouraging people to be drug addicts and that's not the case.
"It is the only line of defence against protecting people from getting
hepatitis C and HIV," Beneteau said.
"We're trying to help them do it ... in the healthiest way they
can and in a way that will help other people as well."
Supplies such as vitamin C and sterile water are provided to the needle
exchange coalition by the Ministry of Health through the Hepatitis C
Secretariat, she said.
A.G. Klei, spokesman for the ministry, said the initiative is part of
the Ontario Harm Reduction Program.
"The goal of the program is to provide harm reduction materials.
Those are distributed to 33 needle exchange programs across the
province," he said.
The materials include sterile water, swabs, vitamin C and stericups, Klei
said.
Stericups are small, sterilized disposable cups used to prepare the drug for
use.
The $1 million program started in February, he said.
Beneteau said the Hepatitis C Secretariat would be doing an extensive
evaluation process across the province to determine how the program is
working.
In 2003 about 100,000 needles were exchanged in the area.
The needles are not only used for crack however.
They are used for other drugs such as heroin.
The Four Counties Needle Exchange Coalition serves Peterborough,
Northumberland and Haliburton counties and the City of Kawartha Lakes.
CRACK COCAINE
Crack Cocaine Is Often Sold In Plastic Baggies. It Resembles A
Crystalline White Substance, Often Powdery.
Brain damage
Side effects of using crack:
- - Can lead to stroke, heart attack or seizures, even in healthy people.
- - Can make people paranoid, angry and aggressive.
- - Some users hallucinate or become delusional.
- - Causes brain cells to die, the longer you use the drug the more damage
it does to the brain.
Source: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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