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 #
FIELD TESTING KITS #
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 #
CRACK BABIES #
'Crack Babies' Catch Up - Associated Press, Dec 1992
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
EXPERIENCES #
Riding that train, by Murple
Riding the White Pony, by j
A Year in the Life of..., by CoolCat
Shooting White, by Clayton
One Year of Use, by Larissa
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 #
LAW #
RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES #
Birth of a Cocaine Factoid (2009)
Effects of Crack smoking on the lungs (Abstracts)
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES #
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Can a drug cure an addict?, "vaccine", 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
PREGNANCY #
Prenatal cocaine's lasting cellular effects - (Press Zoom), Jan 15, 2007
ADDICTION & TREATMENT #
Ethical Issues in Using a Cocaine Vaccine (Abstract)
PROHIBITION SITES #
CHEMISTRY & PHARMACOLOGY #
CONTAMINANTS & ADULTERANTS #
New York Health Advisory on Contaminated Cocaine, Feb 2009, New York OASAS
Levamisole: An unusual finding in a cocaine related fatality, Dec 2005, Los Angeles Coroner