A Brief History of Cocaine, Second Edition provides a fascinating historical insight into the
reasons why cocaine use is increasing in popularity and why the rise of the cocaine trade is …

Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by
scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes …

Winner of the Addiction Book Award from the Society for the Study of Addiction In 1884
American physicians discovered the anesthetic value of cocaine, and over the next three …

The reader of the following final report be warned. Confrontation with a lot of data that are
analyzed sometimes to a large degree of detail, necessitates a lot of patience and a high …

Cocaine's popularity among adults as a so-called recreational drug has skyrocketed. Yet,
reliable information about the drug and its users remains relatively scarce. This important …

The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes Page 1
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Afew hundredths of a gram of cocaine hydrochloride, chopped finely and arranged on a
smooth surface into several lines, or rows of powder, can be snorted into the nose through a …

" In an arena of public policy where misinformation and disinformation reigns,... facts are
desperately needed, and Cocaine Changes gives us a bucketful of them. Anyone who …

The purpose of this brief history of coca and its pure alkaloid derivative, cocaine, is to place
the present day scientific assessment of cocaine's properties and possible health …

Only a decade ago, many prominent Americans tolerated and even touted the use of
cocaine. From Capitol Hill to Wall Street, the young and moneyed set made the drug its …