Cocaine powder, freebase and crack are all forms of cocaine. They are stimulants with powerful, but short-lived, effects. Stimulants temporarily speed up the processes of your mind and body. Cocaine, can be smoked, and can reach the brain very rapidly in high dosage. It can be difficult to resist the craving and strong psychological dependence due to changes in the brain.

Though, Drug rehab centers have worked to cure such addicts, families are falling apart in thousands of numbers. Problems are not addicts but their addiction. Many addicts, who have rehabilitated, share their experiences with us "I knew I was too much into it, I wanted to say no, but my body was so used to it that if I avoided it for some time, my muscles started stretching, body started aching, and I use to feel anxious and panicky, until I surrender to it again. It was a vicious cycle I broke through with the help of drug rehab center. Apparently, it is hard to break through addiction and without help of rehab centers it almost seems impossible."

Treatment centers are feeling the pinch of budget cuts, yet the volume of people suffering from drug addiction particularly prescription drug addiction which is basically now a national epidemic — is in fact rising.

There are more than thousands of NGOs working for the cause and more than a million drug treatment centers operating worldwide.

A new approach towards treatment of drug addicts has send waves down to human right and psychologists all over the world recently. In Russia, recently patients were caged and are kept in a dormitory along with other patients for treatment. Caging has created many controversies, though it seems people and police of Russian federation are quite ok with it.

It is not only drug or alcohol intake that makes people anesthetizes addicts, but painkillers too make people addicts. Several families in America are suffering from over usage of painkillers. Addiction of painkillers should not e considered any less severe than that of narcotics.