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The use of cocaine, by the teens, is biggest problem of today. Parents, teachers and friends are actually the most intimate group of people. Youth cocaine abuse has entered the homes of many cultured and quiet types of neighborhoods.

In one study it is seen that Cocaine use among youths has been decreasing since the 1990. It has been seen in analysis that cocaine use in excess among youths is during 1979 to 1986. After this time the use of cocaine is declined. The trend of reduction in cocaine use among the youth is a very good tendency. This tendency helps in reducing bad behaviors and encourages energetic thoughts that help adolescence to stay or become drug free.

Cocaine is snorting by nose as powder and nose taking it to the blood stream. This process can cause of major damage and also causes teeth to decay from within the mouth making an empty tooth. Injection is a different method to release the drug into the blood stream. Many cocaine addicts combine other drugs together to get a better feeling.

Cocaine and heroin mixed together gives the user that better feeling and becomes addicting the first time it is used. A different way that cocaine is used is by smoking it; this variety is done by rocking the powdered cocaine in the procedure known as cooking it. The drug addict uses baking soda and water with a hot flame to bake the cocaine down into rocks.

Cocaine is very addicting and the duration of its effects is instantly the user receives. The effect of cocaine depends upon the route by which it is administered.

Some of the warning signs are as follows but are not limited to:

• Red eyes, bloodshot from lack of use
• Change of eating habits and loss of weight
• Runny nose or frequent sniffing.
• Frequently needing money and stealing it to support their habit
• Change of sleeping habits; sleeps all day and is up all night
• Acting withdrawn or depressed, very tired and careless about personal appearance.
• A change in friends and groups within different ages.
• A change in behaviors, such as flunking out of school or not going to school.
• Losing interest in the things they used to like to do, such as family activities.