Crack Cocaine Leads to Havoc in Rio Shantytown

Published October 9, 2012

Crack cocaine leads to havoc in Rio shantytown

Filed under: Physical Addiction to Cocaine

With 1mn users, Brazil is the world's largest market for crack, a highly addictive cocaine derivative which is wreaking havoc in impoverished slums, according to a study by the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP). Under a bridge, a group of …
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The Meaning of Addiction Has Changed — Addiction is Not a Characteristic of …

Filed under: Physical Addiction to Cocaine

Writing as editor of MedPage Today, the redoubtable George Lundberg* confidently (and briefly) declared: "All drugs are habit-forming, but only a subset of psychoactive drugs can produce psychological and physical dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal …
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The Stampede: Why is marijuana against the law?

Filed under: Physical Addiction to Cocaine

Bill Frist,MD The legalizing of marijuana should not happen at all due to all the harmful effects that it could have not only on a person mentally, but also physically. The use of marijuana has been called a “gate-way drug.” This means that, though its …
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