Treatments
Pharmacology
Adverse Effects
Physiological Mechanisms
Cocaine History
100

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?

100

Another drug commonly combined with cocaine in order to get faster high

What is heroin?

100

Cocaine use result on a fetus leading to a smaller brain size

What is microcephaly?

100
The reuptake of these two neurotransmitters are blocked by cocaine

What are dopamine and serotonin?

100

The plant source of cocaine which is part of the Erythroxylaceae family, commonly found in western South America

What are coca leaves?

200

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)?

200

This form of cocaine is is usually powdered and can be injected or snorted

What is water-soluble hydrochloride salt?

200

This psychiatric effect can occur with acute cocaine use and chronic use and is characterized by a disconnection from reality

What is psychosis?

200

Cocaine suppresses the feelings of fear and panic by suppressing these two specific parts of the brain

What are pontine nucleus and locus ceruleus?

200

Group who originally chewed coca leaves in order to combat fatigue, achieve euphoria, and increase stamina

Who were the Peruvian Indians?

300

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?

300

The resulting agent of the combination of cocaine and alcohol in the liver

What is cocaethylene?

300

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?

300
The blockage of these channels prevent nerve impulses leading to the anesthetic effects of cocaine

What are sodium channels?

300

Famous soft drink with coca leaves as a past ingredient; no longer used in today's recipe

What is Coca-Cola?

400

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?

400
This form of cocaine is combined with ammonia or baking soda before it is smoked; often is called "crack" due to the crackling sound made when it is smoked

What is water-insoluble cocaine base (freebase)?

400

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?

400

These neural systems are the most affected by the use of cocaine

What are the ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens?

400

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?

500

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?

500
This protein accumulates in the striatum when chronic exposure to cocaine occurs

What is delta-FosB?

500
This 1914 act concerning cocaine prohibited the importation of this substance into America, except for pharmaceutical purposes

What is the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act?