Cocaine FirstVue™ Drug Screen

Slang Term(s): Coke, Dust, Toot, Snow, Blow, Bumps, Lines, Nose Candy, Snowball (cocaine & heroin), Sneeze, Oolies (marijuana laced with crack), Powder, Tornado (Crack), Rock (Crack), Wicky Stick (PCP, marijuana, and crack)

Screening Cut-off in Urine: 300 ng/mL

Drug Information: Cocaine is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant and a local anesthetic. Initially, it brings about extreme energy and restlessness while gradually resulting in tremors, over-sensitivity and spasms. In large amounts, cocaine causes fever, unresponsiveness, difficulty in breathing and unconsciousnessCocaine is often self-administered by nasal inhalation, intravenous injection and free-base smoking. It is excreted in the urine in a short time primarily as Benzoylecgonine.2,3 Benzoylecgonine, a major metabolite of cocaine, has a longer biological half-life (5-8 hours) than cocaine (0.5-1.5 hours), and can generally be detected for 24-48 hours after cocaine exposure.