Cocaine - Legal status

The production, the distribution and the sales of cocaine products are restricted (and illegal in most contexts) in most countries. Cocaine - Africa. In Nigeria, it is a crime to be seen with cocaine. In South Africa, it is a crime to have cocaine in your posession. Cocaine - Asia. In Pakistan, use and possession of cocaine is illegal. In Singapore, possession of more than 15 grams of cocaine resul ...

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Cocaine 3-benzoyloxy-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo [3.2.1]octane-4-carboxylic acid methyl ester CAS number 50-36-2 ATC code N01BC01 used rarely as a topical anesthetic Recreational uses: euphoria stimulant Other uses: local anesthetic cardiovascular disease Severe: (with chronic use) ? Cardiovasc ...

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• Cocaine - The coca leaf
• Cocaine - Isolation
• Cocaine - Popularization
• Cocaine - Prohibition
• Cocaine - Modern usage
• Cocaine - Pharmacology
• Cocaine - Appearance
• Cocaine - Forms of cocaine
• Cocaine - Methods of administration
• Cocaine - Mechanism of action
• Cocaine - Metabolism and excretion
• Cocaine - Effects and health issues
• Cocaine - Cocaine as a local anesthetic
• Cocaine - Cocaine addiction
• Cocaine - Treatment
• Cocaine - Legal status
• Cocaine - Africa
• Cocaine - Asia
• Cocaine - Middle east
• Cocaine - Australia & Oceania
• Cocaine - Europe
• Cocaine - North America
• Cocaine - South America
• Cocaine - Usage
• Cocaine - In the United States
• Cocaine - Works concerning cocaine
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Cocaine - Appearance. Cocaine in its purest form is an off-white or pink chunky product. Cocaine appearing in powder form is a salt, typically cocaine hydrochloride (CAS 53-21-4). Cocaine is frequently adulterated or “cut” with various powdery fillers to increase its surface area; the substances most commonly used in this process are baking soda, sugars, such as lactose, inositol, and mannitol, and local anesthetics, such as lidocaine. Adulterated cocai ...

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Cocaine - Books about cocaine. Cocaine: an unauthorized biography by Dominic Streatfeild Novel, With Cocaine, by M. Ageyev Über Coca by Sigmund Freud The Triumph of Surgery by Jürgen Thorwald - Ch. 6 - The second battle against Pain (The early use of cocaine solution in eye surgery) More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel Snowblind by Robert Sabbag Celerino III Castillo & Dave Harmon (1994). Powderburns: C ...

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Cocaine - In the United States. The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) reported in 1999 that cocaine was used by 3.7 million Americans, or 1.7 percent of the household population aged 12 and over. Estimates of the current number of those who use cocaine regularly (at least once per month) vary, but 1.5 million is a widely accepted figure within the research community. Although cocaine use had not significantly changed over the six years prior to 1999, the number of first-time users wen ...

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Cocaine addiction is the obsessive or uncontrollable abuse of cocaine. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) shows promising results. Spiritual based Twelve-step programs such as Cocaine Anonymous (modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous) have some success combatting this problem. A cocaine vaccine is also being tested which may prevent the recipient from feeling the desirable effects of the drug, although a similar effort to develop a heroin vacci ...

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Cocaine - The coca leaf. For thousands of years and still today, South American indigenous peoples have chewed the coca leaf (Erythroxylon coca), a plant which contains vital nutrients as well as numerous alkaloids, including cocaine. The leaf was and is chewed almost universally by some indigenous communities, but there is no evidence that its habitual use ever led to any of the negative consequences generally associated with habitual cocaine use today. It is an important source of nutrition and energy in ...

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