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The real cost of cocaine: Following the drug from Colombian rainforests to suburbia

‘There are some Londoners who think it is a victimless crime, taking cocaine at “middle-class parties”,’ Khan said. Dick criticised otherwise ethically minded users ‘who will sit round happily talking about global warming, fair trade, environmental protection and organic farming, but think there’s no harm in taking… Read More »The real cost of cocaine: Following the drug from Colombian rainforests to suburbia

How does cocaine end up as the number two cause of drug deaths, just behind opioids? Excluding adulteration with opioids, how does cocaine kill you?

The effects of cocaine on the cardiovascular system can be grouped into acute and chronic processes. Cocaine use can cause one or more of several acute, life-threatening cardiovascular effects. The most common is myocardial ischemia or infarction (e.g. a heart attack). Cocaine can induce a… Read More »How does cocaine end up as the number two cause of drug deaths, just behind opioids? Excluding adulteration with opioids, how does cocaine kill you?

Cocaine Cues Produce Pavlovian Response and Craving Among First Time & Non-Addicted Users

As a result, Volkow coined the phrase “hijacking the brain” because of how cocaine (and all addictive drugs) fool the brain by producing reward for self-destructive behavior. In clinical settings, cocaine addicts can accurately describe the particular stimulus that “hijacks” their brain, which they experience… Read More »Cocaine Cues Produce Pavlovian Response and Craving Among First Time & Non-Addicted Users

Infralimbic Prefrontal Cortex is Responsible for Inhibiting Cocaine Seeking in Extinguished Rats

The infralimbic cortex and accumbens shell appear to be recruited by extinction learning because inactivation of these structures prior to extinction training did not alter cocaine seeking. Together, these findings suggest that a neuronal network involving the infralimbic cortex and accumbens shell is recruited by… Read More »Infralimbic Prefrontal Cortex is Responsible for Inhibiting Cocaine Seeking in Extinguished Rats

Drug Damage

Drug Damage The Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom have come up with a unique way of showing the health damage from the use of illicit drugs. In a series of before and after photos of young women that used cocaine the severe aging is… Read More »Drug Damage

Dutch Weak on Cocaine

Dutch Weak on Cocaine Drug smugglers arrested with less than 3 kilos of cocaine at Amsterdam airport will not be prosecuted under plans by the Dutch government. About 150 cocaine smugglers at arrested at the airport every month. There are a rising number of arrests… Read More »Dutch Weak on Cocaine

Cocaine Deaths

Cocaine Deaths A study of 146 deaths from cocaine use in NSW from the records of the Coroners Office showed- 89% of the cocaine death victims were not in any treatment program. The number of cocaine deaths increased substantially between 1998 and 2001 with the… Read More »Cocaine Deaths