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cocaine is one of the most widely used drugs in the entire world while the indigenous peoples of South America have been using the coca leaf for medicinal and stimulative purposes for thousands of years it was the refinement and purification of the cocaine alkaloid inside the leaf that led to the drug we know of today in today's video with the help of the cadavers here in the lab we're going to discuss what cocaine does to the body as well as the mass destruction it leaves in its wake it's going to be an important one let's do this [Music] cocaine can be consumed in various forms it can be swallowed smoked injected intravenously or snorted through the nose in what's known as nasal insufflation but once it gets into the bloodstream the effects on the nervous and endocrine system are essentially going to be the same although the timing in terms of the onset and duration of the effects are going to be different however there are unique consequences to the body depending on how it was cons