Who are Cocaine’s Primary Victims?
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Dirk H.Posted
Sat 22 Aug 2009 10:05pm
them more sensitive to the rewarding effects of cocaine. Put simply: Individuals with less dopamine naturally available in the brain may have an inherited predisposition for cocaine addiction. [Brains Scans at right: Dopamine receptor availability in yellow falls markedly after 6 and 12 months of cocaine self-administration.]
Dopamine D2 receptors
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Cocaine is Cocaine: New Sentencing Guidelines
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Dirk H.Posted
Mon 25 Aug 2008 6:22pm
of sanity to cocaine sentencing guidelines. The Court ruled, on a 7-2 vote in the case of Kimbrough v. U.S., that federal judges had the discretion to reduce prison terms for crack-cocaine offenses.
The move was an effort by the Supreme Court to bring crack cocaine sentences more in line with sentencing guidelines for powdered cocaine. Many drug experts
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Cocaine Vaccine Hits Snag
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Jason Schwartz, LMSWPosted
Thu 21 Jan 2010 2:54am
Over at Addiction Inbox, Dirk Hanson reports on findings from a trial of the new cocaine vaccine and provides a succint description of its mechanism:
Some cocaine addicts appear willing to risk overdose in order to defeat a new cocaine vaccine, a recent study has shown.
The study, which appeared in the Archives of General Psychiatry
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Cocaine, Risky Sex, and HIV
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Dr. Romeo V.Posted
Wed 07 Jul 2010 6:58am
Researchers have identified the association between the use of cocaine
and sexual behavior as an important risk factor for HIV infection and
have attempted to clarify the nature of this association. Several
lines of research have suggested that increased sexual behavior
during episodes of cocaine intoxication may relate to direct
pharmacological
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Cocaine and Death
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Dr. Richard KellerPosted
Thu 23 Oct 2008 1:36pm
As I have mentioned before, Cocaine is the #1 killer drug in Lake County. It is a very potent nervous system stimulant, which explains its euphoric and its lethal effects....
Cocaine is rapidly metabolized in the body, which makes it a bit tricky to catch in the bloodstream of a live individual. Usually, however, levels of Cocaine and/or its metabolites
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