PS268 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Coca Wine, Sympathomimetic Drug, Local Anesthetic
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Creates pleasure, increases alertness and decreases appetite and need for sleep: history. Traced to inca empire in peru use of coca. Adding calcified lime to raise alkalinity increase extraction of cocaine. Coca was treated as money before the spanish conquered: coca wine. Early version of coca cola: lifted spirits, freed them from fatigue, gave them good feeling, local anaesthesia. Introduced cocaine as local anaesthetic for eye surgery. Used as local anaestheticfor many different types of surgery: early psychiatric uses. Freud studied its use as treatment medication in variety of psychiatric ailments. After a bad experience with a patient, freud opposed used of cocaine in treatment: legal controls on cocaine. Little concern in canada given until end of 1960s. Peter bourne recommended that if cocaine was used in moderation, it would not be detrimental to the body. Abuse potential of snorted cocaine lower than smoked or iv cocaine use. Before 1985, cocaine use were for higher class members of society.
