Treatments
This form of treatment for cocaine use which aims to improve how a person thinks about their actions and how these actions change
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Another drug commonly combined with cocaine in order to get faster high
What is heroin?
Cocaine use result on a fetus leading to a smaller brain size
What is microcephaly?
What are dopamine and serotonin?
The plant source of cocaine which is part of the Erythroxylaceae family, commonly found in western South America
What are coca leaves?
This agent is used as a medical treatment for intoxication/overdose which aims to sedate the patient and suppresses the irritability, seizure, elevated blood pressures, and other effects
What is diazepam (Valium)?
This form of cocaine is is usually powdered and can be injected or snorted
What is water-soluble hydrochloride salt?
This psychiatric effect can occur with acute cocaine use and chronic use and is characterized by a disconnection from reality
What is psychosis?
Cocaine suppresses the feelings of fear and panic by suppressing these two specific parts of the brain
What are pontine nucleus and locus ceruleus?
Group who originally chewed coca leaves in order to combat fatigue, achieve euphoria, and increase stamina
Who were the Peruvian Indians?
This form of treatment is a drug-free residence in which people in recovery from substance use disorders help each other to understand and change their behaviors
What are Therapeutic Communities?
The resulting agent of the combination of cocaine and alcohol in the liver
What is cocaethylene?
This form of neurologic effect can occur in cocaine users and can affect those under fifty years old. Some types of this effect include subarachnoid hemorrhage and ischemic infarcts
What are strokes?
What are sodium channels?
Famous soft drink with coca leaves as a past ingredient; no longer used in today's recipe
What is Coca-Cola?
This form of therapy can be used for treatment in addiction and was developed by Carl Rogers and focuses on solely on the patient
What is Client-Centered/Person-Centered?
What is water-insoluble cocaine base (freebase)?
Acute hypertension seen with cocaine can lead to the development of this cardiovascular condition in which a tear in the inner layer of the large blood vessel branching off the heart occurs
What is aortic dissection?
These neural systems are the most affected by the use of cocaine
What are the ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens?
This person reported on the use of cocaine as a local anesthetic and cocaine was adopted into surgical practice because of his reports
Who was Karl Köller?
This ocular condition with the use of cocaine is also referred to as "crack eye"; focal area of epithelial loss
What is corneal epithelial defect?
What is delta-FosB?
What is the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act?