PS268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Heart Failure, Asthma, Cocaethylene
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The coca plant is grown in columbia, peru, and bolivia slide. The coca plant erythroxylon coca (red berries not important) Alfred niemann isolates cocaine as the active ingredient in coca leaves (in his phd dissertation) Angelo mariani uses coca leaf extract in many products including lozenges, tea, and especially wine. The pope used to favour pouring cocaine into alcohol. 1884: sigmund freud praises cocaine use and ships it around europe. (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1012)(cid:1011): freud pu(cid:271)lishes (cid:862)cra(cid:448)i(cid:374)g for a(cid:374)d fear of co(cid:272)ai(cid:374)e retra(cid:272)ts earlier praises, but he had already introduced cocaine to the world. Cocaine could be used as a topical anesthetic. Cocaine-laced products in the late 1800s slide. Cocaine additive banned in can by 1908. 1900s to pre 1970: cocaine more-or-less forgotten about. 1970: cocaine makes a comeback due to anti-amphetamine sentiment. 1983: typical cocaine user was college educated, employed, earning more than ,000 per year, and taking cocaine powder intranasally.
