Cocaine Addiction South America
What Is Cocaine?
Cocaine is a powerful drug that comes from the leaves of the coca bush, a plant grown in South America. Bingeing to stay high leads quickly to addiction. Symptoms of Cocaine withdrawal can include exhaustion, extended … Get Document
Cocaine:
The earliest documented use of some form of cocaine was around 500 A.D. In South America coca leaves have been chewed for centuries to combat fatigue and hunger Stevens, Lise M. “Cocaine Addiction”. JAMA. 2 Jan. 2002. Vol.287, Iss.1. … Access Document
ARGENTINA; URUGUAY:"Hepatitis C Virus Among Non-
ARGENTINA; URUGUAY: "Hepatitis C Virus Among Non-Injecting Cocaine Users (NICUs) in South America: Can Injectors Be a Bridge? " Addiction Vol. 106; No. 1: P. 143-151 (01..11):: Waleska T. Caiaffa and others The team undertook the current project – an inter-country, cross-sectional study – to … Retrieve Here
Beyond The ABCs – Information For Professionals: Cocaine
Native cultures in South America traditionally used cocaine (by chewing the coca leaves) to Beyond the ABCs – Information for Professionals: Cocaine Author: AHS Addiction and Mental Health … Access Document
South America S O U T H A M ER I C – South America
The Ministry of Interior (MOI) and the Secretariat of Planning for the Prevention of Drug Addiction and Drug Trafficking (SEDRONAR South America 125 of the cocaine leaving Colombia goes through the complex river network in the south – central region to the south – western … Fetch Content
IPRCResource Center Indiana Prevention COCAINE COCAINE COCAINE
Primarily in South America. It was a very powerful stimu-lant used in eye, nose, and throat surgeries as an anesthetic Long term effects of cocaine use in-clude powerful addiction, development of tolerance … Read Here
DRUG ABUSE IN MIAMI AND SOUTH FLORIDA
Region, and 17 percent with South America. South Florida’s airports and seaports remain among addiction treatment for cocaine abuse. There were 45 cocaine-induced deaths in Miami-Dade County in 2001 reflecting a 50-percent … Fetch Document
Issue 5, May 2008 Perspectives
The emergence of West Africaas a hub for trafficking cocaine from South America to Europe is a disturbing trend that UNODC has signs of growing drug addiction, particularly among young people who often also work with the traffickers. … Retrieve Document
Cocaine – FACT SHEET
Andes Mountains in South America. Street names for cocaine include: snow, powder lines, freebase, c, tense high that may lead to addiction more quickly than snorting. Crack is cocaine in a form that can be easily … View Doc
Drugs Of Abuse
Cocaine is extracted and refined from the Coca Plant, which is grown primarily in the Andean region of South America. proceed HISTORY of COCAINE 3000 B used as an anesthetic in eye surgery. 1884 Sigmund Freud publishes an article in which he recommends the use of cocaine to treat morphine addiction … Fetch Doc
Drugs Of Abuse
And sell in the United States. Cocaine is extracted and refined from the Coca Plant, which is grown primarily in the Andean region of South America. to treat morphine addiction. … Get Content Here
COCAINE TRAFFICKING IN WEST AFRICA
There are also signs of drug addiction, adding a further tragedy to a region of Africa that has experienced so much turmoil in recent years. For example, Central America and the Caribbean have long suffered for being placed between South America's cocaine producers and the cocaine users of North … Fetch Here
Cocaine
Cocaine is a powerful drug that comes from the leaves of the coca bush, a plant grown in South America. You will likely be more prone to headaches and constipation than people who don’t use cocaine. Addiction … Read Content
Cocaine Abuse
Alcohol or heroin addiction. Cocaine has powerful psychological addictive properties. Cocaine sulfate is also available as coca paste known as basuco, bazooka, piticin, pistol, pitillos, or tocos and is widely smoked in South America. … Retrieve Full Source
Drug Use In South Africa – Fact Sheet
Crime often being committed to support the crack cocaine addiction. Ecstasy use in South Africa • Although Ecstasy markets are still concentrated in Western Europe, North America … Fetch Content
EMCDDA–Europol Joint Publications Cocaine
This publication of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and Europol is protected by copyright. While the majority of shipments of cocaine from South America continue to be directed to Western Europe (Figure 4), substantial seizures of cocaine, usually … View Document
2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR)
Has the second largest internal cocaine market in South America after Brazil. efforts to deal with prevention and treatment of addiction, it is also developing strategies for enhancing coordination … Access Content