If You and Your Friends Were Regular Users of Cocaine

question 53

Multiple Choice

If you and your friends were regular users of cocaine in the early 1970s,what would have been your most likely route of administration?

• A)freebasing
• B)injection
• C)intranasal
• D)smoking

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