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 #
A Cocaine Retrospective, by Jules
Peruvian Marching Powder, by dokmai
Only Distance Allows Me to Stay Off, by Leyla
Rush and Glow, by Redleader
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 #
LAW #
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
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 #
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
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 #
Ethical Issues in Using a Cocaine Vaccine (Abstract)
PROHIBITION SITES #
CHEMISTRY & PHARMACOLOGY #
CONTAMINANTS & ADULTERANTS #
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