Cocaine derives from the leaves of coca plants—Erythroxylon coca —which are indigenous to South America. Use of coca leaves may date as far back as 5000 years before the Christian era. Burial sites from 2500 BCE in what is now Peru reveal coca leaves apparently stockpiled to assist the ...
Coca, the source of natural cocaine, is one of a handful of shrubs in the Erythroxylum family of plants. Erythroxylum includes over 100 different species of trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs native to South America and elsewhere. Two of the South American species,E. cocaandE. novogranatense, hav...
Richard Ashely surveys the history of cocaine use, from popes to Freud, and up to the consolidation of the coke business into organized crime in the seventies.
The history of cocaine begins with the history of the coca plant. Even prior to the inca period the plant was used in South America; for centuries use of the plant remained restricted primarily to that continent. In 1859, an Austrian explorer brought home from Peru coca leaves that he sent...
Cocaine: History, Social Implications, and Toxicity-A Review-Background/History of Use Cocaine is a naturally occurring substance found in the leaves of the Erythroxylum coca plant. The plant is endogenous to South America, Mexico, Indonesia,... DLM Burda - Disease-a-month: DM 被引量: 0发表...
America, meet cocaine University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine Americans may have one John Styth Pemberton to blame for its cocaine addiction. After the war, the Civil War veteran started using morphine to kill the pain caused by his injuries - and became addicted. He read ...
The history of cocaine begins with the history of the coca plant. Even prior to the inca period the plant was used in South America; for centuries use of the plant remained restricted primarily to that continent. In 1859, an Austrian explorer brought home from Peru coca leaves that he sent...
Authorities in ParaguayannouncedTuesday the largestcocaineseizure in the country's history, after officials were surprised to find more than 4 tons of the drug stashed inside a shipment of sugar bound for Belgium. It marked thesecond timethis week that officials in South America announced a major...
the american journal of drug and alcohol abuse craving in hospitalized cocaine abusers as a predictor of outcome craving in hospitalized cocaine abusers as a predictor of outcome 2003. Event-related potential responses to alcohol-related stimuli in African-American young adults: relation to family his...
Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States 1884–1920 Bakalar. In 1996 Jill Jonnes provided a modern history of all drugs, Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal ... KA Coyle - 《Journal of Social History》 被引量: 46发表...