The consumption risk affects at all the ages, from children and adolescents up to elders, but of special form between 18 and 30 years. It is equal in both sexes and social class or professions.
The absorption of the cocaine (so much of free base and or) is very rapid to the ace and the effects appear after the first inhalation of immediate form, lasting between four to six minutes.

A stimulation and general well-being appears, but with tachycardia, increase of the blood pressure, sudoración, loss of appetite, sexual stimulation, increasing sensation of anxiety, later there appear vomiting, diarrheas, insomnia, ardor in the eyes, and the showy changes of the humor.

The final sensation is more of anxiety that of pleasing for it one tends to abuse continuously of smoking new doses. After this initial process the consumer presents the silence state with decrease of the attention and difficulties motorboats.
The absence of consumption makes appear the withdrawal symptoms characterized by anxiety, need for the product, diarrhea, paleness, crisis of crying, sudoración and tachycardia.

The risks of the chronic consumption are the undernourishment, the dental problems and hepatic alterations and the decrease of the desire and sexual activity, in addition to the important consequences in the psychological and social ambiences.
For example they appear:

• Paranoid reactions with pursuit frenzies.
• The depression, sexual indifference, melancholy, insecurity, low self-esteem
• The ideas of suicide.

The immediate effects of the clorhidrato of cocaine to low doses are the absence of fatigue and of sleep, lacking in famine, the enthusiasm of the frame of mind with major self-confidence. The dominance appears, they diminish the inhibitions and the individual is perceived usually as an extremely competent and capable person.
But simultaneously there takes place the increase of the cardiac rhythm and of the arterial tension.
There appears the increase of the corporal temperature and of the sudoración.

If the dose is raised there appears a big anxiety and aggressiveness, hallucinations, quakes and convulsive movements.

After transferring his initial effects the called "bassoon" appears with a tremendous weariness, apathy, irritability and emotional outburst.

The long-term effects are:

• The psychiatric complications: irritability, crisis of anxiety, decrease of the memory and of the capacity of concentration. Also in certain cases the "psychosis appears cocaínica" that consists of a sprout of paranoid ideas that take the person to the confusion state, being able to produce real panic crises, and of pictures alucinatorios, etc.
• The sexual apathy or powerlessness.
• The bulimia and anorexia nervosa.
• The neurological alterations (headaches and the vascular accidents as the cerebral ictus)
• The cardiac arrhythmias
• The problems of asthma or difficulties to breathe
• The perforation of the nasal dividing wall.
• The risks of perinatal mortality, abortions and nervous problems in the newborn baby it do a very important problem in pregnancy and lactation.