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How to Killer Cocaine

Killer Cocaine

It's dangerous, shortens your life, and ruins your relationship. Cocaine is definitely not your friend.

There is a very common notion among people across the world that addictive drugs are substances that make people feel drunk and sleepy, and interrupt their natural senses. Though this may be true especially for alcohol, this simply is not the case for cocaine, a very dangerous drug commonly used.

Cocaine is a white powder that comes from the coca plant grown in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. Coca plants were initially reserved for use by Inca royalty. The rest of the population eventually used coca plant leaves for mystical, religious, social, and medical purposes. They exploited its stimulant properties to ward off fatigue and hunger, enhance endurance, and to promote a sense of well-being.

The invading Spanish forced the Incan people to work hard in the fields. But the Spanish quickly learned that their captives could barely do work in the fields without chewing on the coca leaf (then referred to as the "gift of the gods"). Eventually the coca leaves were harvested and distributed to the Incan workers three or four times per day.

With the use of this magical plant, the Incans were able to do much productive work. Soon the use of cocaine became so common that the leaves were used as money; distances were measured by how far one could travel before having to stop and replenish the leaves. Because of the potent energizing effects of cocaine, many people in the late nineteenth century took cocaine.

Thousands of physicians recommended its use for the treatment of depression and other psychiatric conditions. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, became so enamored by the effects of cocaine that he wrote a series of scientific papers praising cocaine's potential to cure depression, alcoholism, and morphine addiction. Dr. Freud eventually died while severely addicted to the dangerous substance.

Those who produced wine soon discovered the energizing effects of cocaine. Wine with cocaine added was sold with the claim as being able to "strengthen, refresh, and restore vital forces." In 1885 the Parke-Davis Company, still a large pharmaceutical company today, advertised cocaine as being able to "take the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent, and render the sufferer insensitive to pain."

Small amounts of cocaine were added to Coca-Cola until around 1902, when it was quietly removed because of pressure from the American government. Around this time skepticism replaced the excitement for cocaine when documented reports of fatal cocaine poisoning, alarming mental disturbances, and cocaine addiction started to become evident.

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This digital document is a journal article from Addictive Behaviors, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Although many studies have shown that cognitive effect expectancies are associated with drug use and drug treatment outcomes, few studies have compared effect expectancies with drug response following drug challenge. Healthy male and female volunteers (n=19, ages 21-35) who reported using cocaine 1-4 times per month completed the Cocaine Effect Expectancy Questionnaire (CEEQ: [Schafer, J. and Brown, S.A. (1991). Marijuana and cocaine effect expectancies and drug use patterns. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 59, 558-565.]), were challenged with cocaine (0.9 mg/kg, i.n.), then completed a series of visual analog scales (VAS) and the Addiction Research Center Inventory (ARCI) at 15 min intervals for 3 h following cocaine administration. Significant positive correlations were found between global negative expectancies and peak responses on the VAS measures ''Good,'' ''Happy,'' ''High,'' ''Stimulated,'' and ''Desire to Use Cocaine,'' and on the LSD subscale of the ARCI post-cocaine administration, and between global positive expectancies and the MBG subscale of the ARCI, and on VAS items ''Anxious'' and ''Good'' post-cocaine administration. Global positive expectancies also were positively correlated with peak systolic blood pressure, and global negative expectancies with peak heart rate after cocaine administration. These results suggest that negative and positive effect expectancies both play a complex role in the subjective experience of cocaine effects, and thus likely in the progression of non-use to recreational use, in the transition to abuse, and in individualized treatment strategies. Detail

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Clinician's Guide to Cocaine Addiction: Theory, Research, and Treatment (Hardcover)

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"A well informed and highly informative compendium on cocaine theory, research, and treatment....Achieves broad coverage of the science of cocaine. The editors take the reader on a well-planned and informative tour of cocaine research....Coverage of [these] novel...more speculative areas helps to set this text apart from earlier books on cocaine....[provides] the reader with an understanding of the historical significance, current applications, and future implications of the scientific findings...Perhaps one of the greatest teaching strengths of this work is its ability to serve as a template for systematic research development in other scientific areas....Scholarly in its breadth and depth of coverage....An outstanding contribution to the field of substance abuse and is likely to become a standard reference text for both clinicians and scientists involved in cocaine research and treatment." --Contemporary Psychology

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With an alcohol content sometimes as high as 80 percent, absinthe was made by mixing the leaves of wormwood with other plants such as angelica root, fennel, coriander, hyssop, marjoram and anise for flavor. The result was a bitter, potent drink that became a major social, medical and political phenomenon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; its popularity was mainly in France, but also in other parts of Europe and the United States, particularly in New Orleans. Absinthe produced a sense of euphoria and a heightening of the senses, similar to the effect of cocaine and opium, but was addictive and caused a rapid loss of mental and physical faculties. Despite that, Picasso, Manet, Rimbaud, Van Gogh, Degas and Wilde were among those devoted to its consumption and produced writings and art influenced by the drink.
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Cocaine Addiction Solutions: Help for Cocaine Abusers and Their Families (Haworth Series in Addictions Treatment, Vol 4) (Hardcover)

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It's obvious from the opening pages of Cocaine Addiction Solutions that the authors, both specialists in addiction treatment, have a solid grasp of their audience. In clear, jargon-free language, they explain and explore the issue of cocaine abuse, a process that's both physically and psychologically addictive. Factual material is accurate, concisely presented, and interspersed with first-person histories that are taut, candid, and expresssive: these are people who are easy to identify with because they are so much like ourselves and our friends. True to its subtitle, the book will appeal equally to cocaine abusers and their families. For the abuser, an "Addict Questionnaire" is included; for relative and close friends, an "Enabling Checklist." Special chapters profile the adolescent cocaine abuser and provide a questionnaire geared to teens. This isn't a recovery program and it doesn't try to be: the authors recommend seeking outside help and provide a list of treatment centers and programs

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Although the media focus on the rise of cocaine use and the evils of its abuse, the public receives little real information about the scope of the problem and its treatment. This timely, practical, and honest volume gets to the heart of the cocaine addiction problem. Cocaine Solutions not only addresses the difficulties experienced by addicts and their families in coping with the devastating financial, emotional, and psychological toll that addiction takes, it also identifies specific sources of help that exist for addicts and their families.

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