Cocaine & Crack
COMMON & BRAND NAMES
Coke; Crack; Blow; Snow; Nose Candy
EFFECTS CLASSIFICATION
Euphoric Stimulant
CHEMICAL NAME
benzoylmethyl ecgonine
DESCRIPTION
Cocaine is a common stimulant derived from the Erythroxylum coca plant. It is best known for its massive popularity in powdered and freebase (crack) forms.
GENERAL INFORMATION #
RELATED VAULTS #
HISTORY #
ASK EROWID ANSWERS #
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
Rats Prefer Sweetened Water to Cocaine, by Erowid
For Those About to Rock, by Rem
Woe to you my Princess, when I come, I will kiss you quite red
and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you
shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't
eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body."
-- Sigmund Freud, Cocaine Papers
RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES #
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Acupuncture effective treatment for cocaine addiction - AP, August 2000
Behind Cocaine's Durability: Low Costs and High Profits - NY Times, Mar 1997
Immunotherapy for Cocaine Addiction - Scientific American, Feb 1997
Proof of Brain Damage Caused by Cocaine (EEG Studies) - Newswire, Oct 1996
Tougher crack laws aren't working - Mpls Star Tribune, 11/20/96
Cocaine-Tainted Cash Faulted as Evidence - Wall Street Journal
CRACK BABIES #
'Crack Babies' Catch Up - Associated Press, Dec 1992
EXPERIENCES #
I Did it For Science, by Grant Stoddard
Almost Too Much Fun, by Jennifer D
Shooting White, by Clayton
I Learned My Lesson the Hard Way, by A S
I Did It For Science: Sex on Drugs, by Grant Stoddard
BOOKS #
A Brief History of Cocaine, by Steven B. Karch
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs: Cocaine, by C. Johanson
Cocaine, by L. Grinspoon and J. Bakalar
Cocaine Papers, by Sigmund Freud
The Pleasures of Cocaine, by Adam Gottlieb
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
SECONDARY RESOURCES #
Cocaine - Wikipedia.org
Cocaine - TripSit.me
Cocaine - Dancesafe
Cocaine - Lycaeum
Cocaine - Paranoia
Cocaine - Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
Cocaine Info - Drug Library :
Cocaine - HedWeb
Crack Cocaine - StreetDrugs.org
LAW #
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
Dose of Science: What Is In Your Cocaine? Drug Reporter (2017)
On Cocaine, by Sigmund Freud
RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES #
Birth of a Cocaine Factoid (2009)
Effects of Crack smoking on the lungs (Abstracts)
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES #
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Bolivia police seize 7.5 tonnes of cocaine - Reuters, Aug 1 2016
How the Myth of the 'Negro Cocaine Fiendâ' Helped Shape American Drug Policy - The Nation.com, Jan 29 2014
"Drugs Aren’t the Problem": Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science & Myths About Addiction - DemocracyNow, Jan 6 2014
Will a Cocaine Vaccine Keep Addicts from Using? - The Fix , Jan 3 2014
Can a drug cure an addict? - thestar.com, Dec 22 2007
Houston scientists see hope in cocaine vaccine - Houston Chronicle, Jan 1 2008
Supreme Court upholds sentencing discretion in crack case - NYT, Dec 10 2007
New Mint Resembles Cocaine Bags, Police Say - MSNBC, Dec 2 2007
'Gene cause' of cocaine addiction - BBCNews, Mar 13 2006
Rivers of Coke - WIREDNews, Aug 2005
Warning on Atropine-laced Cocaine - Expatica Netherlands, Dec 2004
CRACK BABIES #
What the 'Crack Baby' Panic Reveals About The Opioid Epidemic - The Atlantic, July 2017
'Crack baby' study ends with unexpected but clear result - Philly.com, July 2013
PACO #
Lost in an Abyss of Drugs, and Entangled by Poverty - NYTimes July 29, 2009
Paco: Drug Epidemic Sweeping the Streets of Argentina - The ArgenTimes, Nov 2008
PREGNANCY #
Prenatal cocaine's lasting cellular effects - (Press Zoom), Jan 15, 2007
ADDICTION & TREATMENT #
Addiction injection: the mission to immunise drug users against dependency, Wired, Mar 29 2013
Ethical Issues in Using a Cocaine Vaccine (Abstract)
CHEMISTRY & PHARMACOLOGY #
CONTAMINANTS & ADULTERANTS #
Health Department Warns New Yorkers about Cocaine Laced with Fentantyl - NYC Health Department, Jun 2017
Skin, Vessel Damage Seen with Tainted Cocaine - Mar 6, 2013, MedPageToday
How to make your very own Levamisole test kits! - Levamicoke (blog), Nov 19 2010
The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine - The Stranger, Aug 17 - Nov 9 2010
New York Health Advisory on Contaminated Cocaine - New York Oasis, Feb 2009
Levamisole: An unusual finding in a cocaine related fatality - LA Coroner, Dec 2005