Coke, Cocaine, and Crack. A review of a 1996 article that covers many of the contested ideas in the social pharmacology of cocaine is available here. The authors make the case that cocaine abuse may be psychologically or sociologically; but most likely not physiologically addictive. And certainly much less so than other more common injestibles such as caffeine, nicotine or alcohol.
Abusers overwhelming refer to themselves as addicts; yet studies have shown overwhelming support for viewing abuse as primarily an elective behavior, not a result of physical dependency on the drug, as in the opiates.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2003
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