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Pharmacotherapy for Cocaine Abuse and Dependence
• Cocaine Addiction • Mar 06 08
Cocaine abuse and dependence may be initiated and perpetuated by a wide range of physiologic, behavioral, and sociocultural factors. Recent treatment-center evaluations of urban,…
Pharmacologic Effects and Mechanisms of Abuse and Dependence
• Cocaine Addiction • Mar 06 08
Cocaine is a stimulant as well as a local anesthetic with potent vasoconstrictor properties. It induces a complex pattern of subjective effects that have…
Cocaine and the Heart
• Cocaine Addiction • • Cardiovascular Complications of Cocaine Use • Mar 06 08
Cocaine use has been associated with both acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases. These include acute myocardial infarction, myocardial ischemia (both silent ischemia and ischemia…
What Is the Maximum Safe Dose of Opioids?
• Tobacco & Marijuana • • Cocaine Addiction • Feb 27 08
Charts and tables are readily available from multiple sources that attempt to correlate certain doses of oxycodone to other opioid narcotics. “Maximum safe dose”…
New findings show additional similarity between opiate and nicotine addiction
• Tobacco & Marijuana • • Cocaine Addiction • Feb 13 08
“That was good!” “Do it again.”
This is what the brain says when people use tobacco, as well as ‘hard drugs’ such as heroin.…
Experts warn of cannabis cancer ‘epidemic’
• Tobacco & Marijuana • • Cocaine Addiction • Feb 04 08
Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, say researchers, warning of an “epidemic” of lung cancers linked…
Management of Cocaine Abuse and Dependence
• Tobacco & Marijuana • • Cocaine Addiction • Feb 04 08
During the 20th century, there have been recurrent episodes of cocaine abuse in the United States that have achieved epidemic proportions. Although the total…
Molecular Mechanisms of Cocaine Addiction
• Addiction • • Cocaine Addiction • Feb 04 08
Effective medication for the treatment of cocaine overdose and addiction is a major unmet need of worldwide importance. In contrast to heroin, for which…
The Management of Cocaine-Associated Myocardial Ischemia
• Addiction • • Cocaine Addiction • Feb 04 08
The use of cocaine has reached epidemic proportions. Over 30 percent of men and 20 percent of women between the ages of 26 and…