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coke add
cocaine as a Ritilan replacement | |
I once read that cliff divers in mexico used Coca to focus their concentration. Speaking from experience I would say that cocaine and Ritilin are very similar in their affect.
I'm not advocating drug use or abuse. I'm saying that I think that it could have a valid medical use. It would also take the
money and power away from the drug lords of south america by paying the farmers for their crops.
Cocaine as self medication?
http://www.scienced...e006fa31aa47cec1bd1
Postulates that cocaine abuse may be an effort to self medicate for ADD. [bungston]
Whoa, a little more than I wanted to know.
http://cocaine.org/history/merck.html [bungston, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
Whoa, a little more than I wanted to know.
http://cocaine.org/history/merck.html
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 04 2004]
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Cocaine was handed out, quite liberally, by doctors not more than a century ago. Wyatt Earp's wife/partner was juiced up most of the time, as I recall. Laudanum was another popular tonic of the time. (It was an alcohol and sugar tincture of opium). |
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This is not an outrageous idea, and a search found many articles noting a very high prevalence of adult ADD among cocaine abusers. Cocaine and ritalin are very similar, and I think [reckless1] is right - cocaine probably would work for ADD symptoms. Cocaine would also have the advantage that it is cheap - but ritalin is not that expensive. Cocaine and ritalin both have high abuse potential. I do not think profits from the pharmacologic use of cocaine could substitute for the profits of illegal use. So, [reckless1], good observation but probably not workable. |
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Ritalin is actually an amphetamine. It is also the most abused drug in prisons. |
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I don't think Ritalin has yet been connected with heart damage as has cocaine. Remember Len Bias? |
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Au contraire - a quick Google shows that Ritalin has indeed been associated with heart damage. (However, I don't feel like wading through the literature at this hour to figure out how credible the link is.) |
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The media coverage about cocaine and heart damage is obviously Biased. |
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//The media coverage about cocaine and heart damage is obviously Biased// |
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I think you'll find the epidemiological evidence points to a lifetime risk increase of heart attack of around 7%, resulting from even low levels of cocaine usage. There appears to be a 24-fold increase in risk, during the hour after cocaine ingestion. |
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Usage also appears to have an effect on heart tissue, often resulting in cardiomyopathy. Overstimulation of serotonin production (which is what cocaine does to you, to make you feel good) has long term deleterious effects on regular serotonin levels. That may lead to long term depression. |
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UnaBubba, you are extremely obtuse. My joke about
media "Bias" was so dumb I thought for sure even you
would get it. |
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I think the word you are looking for is abstruse, not obtuse. No, I don't care to explain myself to you. |
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Nor could you if you wanted to. |
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//The media coverage about cocaine and heart damage is obviously Biased// |
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media coverage of the whole drug war is unbelievably biased. more people abuse drugs because they find out that they've been lied to about their effects by both the media and society. if the media would tell the truth about drugs (the good and the bad) and not overwhelm their audiences with distorted facts and bloated statistics, we'd be much better off. instead you have these zero tolerance psychos running around like headless chickens and demanding mandatory minimums and the like. jeez. |
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