By far the most dangerous form of absorption of cocaine is by smoking the freebase. Because larger amounts are getting to the brain more quickly, an intense rush is produced, with rapid development of severe psychological and psychiatric symptoms requiring hospitalization. Crack Crack is cocaine. When it is smoked, it reaches the brain in 4 to 6 seconds. The drug's impact begins immediately.
Addiction takes place faster than any other drug.
Psychological symptoms are characterized by intense anxiety, depression, confusion, hallucinations and paranoid delusions. These latter symptoms often require hospitalization in a psychiatric ward. Physiological effects are associated with an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, and an increase in breathing rate and a decreased appetite. Rapid and marked tolerance develops to cocaine use. The effects of cocaine overdose are severe, resulting in agitation, increase in body temperature, hallucinations, convulsions, and frequently, death.