Crack

Also known as

• rocks
• stones

Free base or base is the same kind of drug but made slightly differently.

What is crack?

Crack is an extremely powerful stimulant. It’s a form of cocaine that’s been treated to make it smokeable by adding baking soda, then heating. Like coke, the high comes from making the brain release the feel-good chemical dopamine.

Crack is sold as small, white-ish or discoloured rock-like pieces. It gets its name from the ‘crack’ sound it makes when heated/smoked. Users smoke vapours given off when it’s heated through a glass pipe or in foil. Occasionally it’s injected: this is difficult and dangerous.
Crack is not as pure as cocaine. A similar, purer drug is made from ‘free base’ cocaine. ‘To freebase’ coke means heating it with ammonia and ether to free its base - or purest - form.

What’s the attraction?

Compared to cocaine in powder form, crack gives a quicker, far more powerful, euphoric hit, described by some a ‘whole body orgasm’. It works in seconds, not the minutes cocaine takes. It can make users feel confident, strong and awake, and kills feelings of tiredness, pain and hunger.

The intense rush lasts a few minutes, with the positive feelings over within half an hour. The high is so intense that addiction may happen after the first hit.

Crack and sex

Crack lowers inhibitions and with it the chance that condoms are used. It makes users feel very sexual and more energetic, giving longer and more intense orgasms.

Sex on crack isn’t warm and sharing but has a reputation for being self-centred and rough as users feel pain less.

Rough fuck sessions carry a risk of condoms breaking, especially after about half an hour, so around that time it’s advisable to put a fresh condom on. Such sex also means a higher chance of sexually transmitted infections (HIV, hepatitis C and other STIs) passing from one body to another through inflamed, broken or bleeding skin.

Regular crack use often kills sex drive.

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