HPRO 2255 Chapter 6: chapter 6.pdf
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Stimulants are the drugs that keep you going, both mentally and physically. Caffeine and nicotine are readily available stimulants. Cocaine is a powerful central nervous system (cns) stimulant that creates intense feelings of pleasure, increases alertness, and decreases appetite and the need for sleep. Coca is a bush the grows in the andes mountains in bolivia and peru. Coca has been harvested for 1000"s of years and cultivated for 800 years. Inca culture used the coca leaves for religious ceremonies and as currency. Angelo mariani, a french chemist: used coca leaf extract in many products: suck on coca lozenge, drink coca tea, but the most famous was mariani"s coca wine. Karl koller introduced cocaine as a local anaesthetic for eye surgery. Sigmund freud studied the drug for its potential as a treatment medication in a variety of ailments (ex. depression, and morphine dependence)
