Posts Tagged ‘Cocaine’

Biotie tests cocaine dependence treatment in USA
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Finland's Biotie Therapies Corp has signed a deal with the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the US National Institutes of Health to investigate nepicastat in the treatment of cocaine dependence. Under the terms of the pact, NIDA will fund the trial, …
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Illegal drugs can be detected in the air – and could change people's behaviour
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Man Charged With Cocaine Possession, Drinking Beer While Driving Children
Filed under: cocaine detox

He was brought by ambulance to Middlesex Hospital for detox. He has a record with convictions for second-degree breach of peace in New Britain. Show us some love! Follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook. Have you gotten a flu shot this year?
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'Spider therapy', a detox hut and why cancer-stricken Robin Gibb insists he'll …
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Cocaine addicts given hope
Filed under: cocaine addiction brain

by Isobel Leybold-Johnson, swissinfo.ch Scientists at Geneva University have unveiled research that could be used to help combat cocaine addiction. They have developed a method that erases a trace left by the drug in the brains of mice and reverses …
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Erasing The 'Memory' Of Cocaine: A Breakthrough In Treating Addiction
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That phenomenon forever marks the brain and explains why even after years of sobriety, a recovering addict can still be tempted by the drug. “Take someone who took cocaine in a certain place. Even sober, this person won't be able to walk by that same …
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Court will decide whether men can use federal law to reduce crack cocaine …
Filed under: difference between coke and crack

That law reduces the difference between sentences for crimes committed by crack cocaine and powder cocaine users. The two men argue that because their sentences came after the law's effective date, they should get its lesser prison time. …
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Crack and the courts
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Under the old sentencing guidelines, the penalty for possessing a gram of crack cocaine was the same as that for possessing 100 grams (or about 31/2 ounces) of powder cocaine, with a corresponding difference in mandatory minimum prison time. …
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Cocaine found on 11% of UK banknotes
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They are extremely paranoid, especially if you try to look up their nose, and have eyes the size of saucers. These are the symptoms we teach police officers to look for." He said cocaine use was widespread across all financial and class levels. …
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The Difference Between Drug Abuse and Drug Dependency
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If a person meets criteria for a drug dependency for a specific drug, such as cocaine, she cannot be diagnosed with drug abuse of that class of drug. To be diagnosed with a substance abuse disorder, the person must have “a maladaptive pattern of …
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US cocaine dealers using Canadian truckers to smuggle: police
Filed under: use of cocaine

“Criminals use our transport mode to achieve their ends,” he said. “It doesn't mean the carrier or the driver are aware.” A 2010 RCMP criminal intelligence report said cocaine is the most common illicit good intercepted in commercial trucks entering …
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Rise in use of cocaine has peaked, says EU drug agency report
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Designer cocaine sold legally, potentially lethal
Filed under: cocaine abuse effects

Just this past weekend, Hallman said, he was on Mill Avenue and aided a young woman who was suffering side-effects from the glass cleaner. No one in Arizona has died yet as a result of using the "glass cleaner" that is molecularly similar to the banned …
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Arrestees Show High Rate of Drug Use
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The 2010 survey showed that for males under age 21 the use of meth and cocaine is declining, while positive tests for prescription drugs, mainly pain killers, and heroin is increasing. More than 5% of arrestees 21 and under are being booked into jails …
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Nicotine A Gateway Drug For Cocaine
Nicotine is a strong "gateway" drug that increases the effects of cocaine and possibly boosts the chances of becoming addicted, researchers reported Wednesday in a landmark paper on drug addiction. The study, performed in mice, suggests that reducing …
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An addict recounts her struggle for sobriety
Within two years, she was a regular user of cocaine and Xanax, an addictive anti-anxiety drug. During those years, Negron and her girlfriend "were together two years, and we didn't know anything else. The girls and their friends "would pawn things" …
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Florida AG Plans to Cut Down on 'Crack Babies' in State
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced a plan to drastically reduce the number of "crack babies" born in the state. In 2010, more than 25 percent of the babies at a Tampa hospital were born with neonatal withdrawal syndrome, according to an …
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U.S. v. SIMMONS
Timothy Lamont Simmons pled guilty, pursuant to a written plea agreement, to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of crack cocaine, 21 USC § 846 (2006), and was sentenced to 144 …
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