How it is used

 

Cocaine is inhaled (snorted) through the nose, or injected. It is also smoked through a process known as ‘freebasing' - where the cocaine is converted to an alkaloid form. Cocaine hydrochloride cannot be smoked, since the drug is destroyed at high temperatures.

‘Crack' is a very pure form of freebase cocaine sold in the form of small crystals or rocks. Crack is smoked in pipes or in cigarettes, mixed with tobacco or marijuana. Crack has rarely been seen in New Zealand.