... trade, they often succumb to corruption. With the coupling of these two factors, the situation in West Africa is escalating faster than anyone had expected. The Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa warns that, "The [drug] threat is spreading rapidly throughout the region, turning West Africa's Gold Coast into the Coke CoastThis is more than a drug problem, ... it is a threat to public health and security4." In recent years, South American traffickers have relocated a share of their wholesale distribution to West African countries...

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... classified into four major groups: stimulants, depressants, narcotics, and hallucinogens. Three other types of drugs - cannabis (marijuana), inhalants, and designer drugs - have the same effects as some drugs in the four major groups. Steroids are not considered psychoactive drugs but are abused for other reasons. Stimulants are drugs that stimulate, or speed up, nerve activity. ... Nicknames include nicotine, cocaine, crack, coke, amphetamines (speed/uppers), methamphetamines (ice, glass, crystal meth), caffeine. The physical effects of these drugs are: increased heart rate, blood press...

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... dexedrine(speed), desoxyn (speed, crystal, methedrine), biphetamine (black beauties, speed), ritilan (stimulant to open focus), preludin and cocaine (coke, blow, toot, snow, lady). The effects of these drugs varies as well. They can cause more confidence in the user, a mood elevation, energy and alertness. There also more negative effects such as, less of an appetite, anxiety, irritability, ... pressure and heart rate, sweating and nausea, numbness with a floating sensation, slowed reflexes, decreased concentration, paranoid thoughts, delusions, and much more. There are no withdrawal sy...

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... abuse. By 1970 over 55 federal drug laws and countless state laws specified a variety of disciplinary measures, including life imprisonment and even the death penalty. To clarify the situation, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 abolished, replaced, or updated all previous federal laws concerned with narcotics and all other dangerous ... in surgical applications that take advantage of the fact that, in addition to its anesthetic effect, it constricts small arteries, lessening bleeding. There are many street names for cocaine, including coke, C, toot, flake, ...

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