The Neuroscience of Cocaine
The Neuroscience of Cocaine

Author: Victor R Preedy

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 012803792X

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The Neuroscience of Cocaine: Mechanisms and Treatment explores the complex effects of this drug, addressing the neurobiology behind cocaine use and the psychosocial and behavioral factors that impact cocaine use and abuse. This book provides researchers with an up-to-date understanding of the mechanisms behind cocaine use, and aids them in deriving new pharmacological compounds and therapeutic regimens to treat dependency and withdrawal symptoms. Cocaine is one of the most highly abused illicit drugs worldwide and is frequently associated with other forms of drug addiction and misuse, but researchers are still struggling to understand cocaine's neuropharmacological profile and the mechanisms of its effects and manifestations at the cognitive level. Cessation of cocaine use can lead to numerous adverse withdrawal conditions, from the cellular and molecular level to the behavioral level of the individual user. Written by worldwide experts in cocaine addiction, this book assists neuroscientists and other addiction researchers in unraveling the many complex facets of cocaine use and abuse. - Contains in each chapter an abstract, key facts, mini dictionary of terms, and summary points to aid in understanding - Illustrated in full color - Provides unique full coverage of all aspects of cocaine and its related pathology - Provides researchers with an up-to-date understanding of the mechanisms behind cocaine use, and aids them in deriving new pharmacological compounds and therapeutic regimens to treat dependency and withdrawal symptoms

Cocaine Papers
Cocaine Papers

Author: Sigmund Freud

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780883730102

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Contains all of Freud's "cocaine papers," his letters, notes, dreams, and recollections on the subject, together with the most pertinent writings from the 19th century to the present on Freud and cocaine. Bibliography: p. 399-400. Includes index.

Cocaine
Cocaine

Author: Dominic Streatfeild

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-06-26

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780312286248

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Examines the history of cocaine from its first medical uses to the worldwide issues it presents today.

Andean Cocaine
Andean Cocaine

Author: Paul Gootenberg

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 080788779X

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Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine. Gootenberg traces cocaine's history from its origins as a medical commodity in the nineteenth century to its repression during the early twentieth century and its dramatic reemergence as an illicit good after World War II. Connecting the story of the drug's transformations is a host of people, products, and processes: Sigmund Freud, Coca-Cola, and Pablo Escobar all make appearances, exemplifying the global influences that have shaped the history of cocaine. But Gootenberg decenters the familiar story to uncover the roles played by hitherto obscure but vital Andean actors as well--for example, the Peruvian pharmacist who developed the techniques for refining cocaine on an industrial scale and the creators of the original drug-smuggling networks that decades later would be taken over by Colombian traffickers. Andean Cocaine proves indispensable to understanding one of the most vexing social dilemmas of the late twentieth-century Americas: the American cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and, in its wake, the seemingly endless U.S. drug war in the Andes.

Focus on Cocaine and Crack
Focus on Cocaine and Crack

Author: Troll Books

Publisher: Troll Communications

Published: 1991-10

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780816724468

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Discusses how cocaine and crack affect the mind and body and presents a brief history of cocaine use.

Digital Cocaine (eBook)
Digital Cocaine (eBook)

Author: Brad Huddleston

Publisher: Christian Art Publishers

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1432116320

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What’s the difference between half a line of cocaine and an hour playing a video game? Nothing, as far as your brain is concerned. What can you do to be effective at multi-tasking? Nothing, as far as your brain is concerned. What do digital devices in the classroom contribute to focus and concentration? Nothing, as far as your brain is concerned. In DIGITAL COCAINE, Brad Huddleston will replace your confusion, hesitancy and fear as it relates to the digital world with the facts that can make you and your family safer and more secure from page one. Whether it’s gaming, pornography, cyberbullying, or the decline in grades, you’ll get a look inside your wonderful God-designed brain to understand how it interacts with the exploding world of digital communication and how you can keep your family safe. Your smartphone, tablet and computer can be powerful tools to help you ... or not. The choice is yours. DIGITAL COCAINE gives you the power to make that choice.

Cocaine
Cocaine

Author: Joseph F. Spillane

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2000-01-11

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780801862304

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"Arguing that the underground drug culture had origins other than in federal prohibition, he concludes with some thoughts on what our early experience with legalization and prohibition can tell us as we face questions about drug policy today."--BOOK JACKET.

Cocaine and Crack
Cocaine and Crack

Author: Katie Marsico

Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1627123695

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This book provides information on the dangers of cocaine and crack cocaine, a stimulant drug that affects the central nervous system. Use of the drug can result in sudden death, even upon first time use. Within this book, readers will learn about the long and short-term effects of cocaine and crack cocaine which include physical addiction, emotional addiction, expense, health problems, arrest for drug possession, and for other drug-related crime and overdose. Personal stories of teens who used drugs and the realities they faced invite the reader to understand the effects of the drug on a personal level. These stories seamlessly unfold along with advice on how to deal with peer pressure when choosing to say no. Most importantly, there is an entire chapter devoted to getting help. This book is an essential resource and provides concise information about a difficult topic.

Kings of Cocaine
Kings of Cocaine

Author: Guy Gugliotta

Publisher: Garrett County Press

Published: 2011-07-16

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1891053345

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This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. In the 1980s they controlled more than fifty percent of the cocaine flowing into the United States. The cocaine trade is capitalism on overdrive -- supply meeting demand on exponential levels. Here you'll find the story of how the modern cocaine business started and how it turned a rag tag group of hippies and sociopaths into regal kings as they stumbled from small-time suitcase smuggling to levels of unimaginable sophistication and daring. The $2 billion dollar system eventually became so complex that it required the manipulation of world leaders, corruption of revolutionary movements and the worst kind of violence to protect.

The Origins of Cocaine
The Origins of Cocaine

Author: Paul Gootenberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0429951736

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In the 1960s, the governments of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia launched agricultural settlement programs in each country’s vast Amazonian frontier lowlands. Two decades later, these exact same zones had transformed into the centers of the illicit cocaine boom of the Americas. Drawing on concepts from both history and anthropology, The Origins of Cocaine explores how three countries with divergent different mid-century political trajectories ended up with parallel outcomes in illicit frontier economies and cocalero cultures. Bringing together transnational, national, and local analyses, the volume provides an in-depth examination of the deep origins of drug economics in the Americas. As the first substantial study on the shift from agrarian colonization to narcotization, The Origins of Cocaine will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students of Latin American history, anthropology, globalization, development and environmental studies.