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Handbook on Oral Cocaine in Addictions (Handbook on Oral Cocaine in Addictions)
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Handbook on Oral Cocaine in Addictions - Dr. J. Ernesto Chang-Fung, M.D., and Dr. Teobaldo Llosa, M.D., Ph.D.
Cocaine addiction is an uncontrollable health and behavioral problem. During the past decades up until today, millions of dollars have been spent in research, mainly directed towards demonstrating the damaging effects of cocaine use through nasal, pulmonary or intravenous routes. Very little investigation has been performed to study the daily use of oral Coca by millions of people in the Andean regions (Coca chewers, Coca tea drinkers, Coca powder eaters) who show no behavioral disorders or illnesses which fit the DSM-IV-TR or ICD-10 criteria for cocaine dependence. In this book the author has shown the advantages obtained by investigators when interviewing or evaluating traditional chronic oral Coca users who, in most cases, are physically and mentally normal. These facts contradict the WHO conclusions reached during the New York Single Convention in 1961, which pointed out that the oral use of Coca leaded to behavioral and mental deterioration of its users. These concepts were refuted in modern multi-centric studies designed by WHO, Cocaine Project/UNICRI 1995, and Consultation on Drug Substitution Project/PSA, 1995, but their publication was never authorized. What all these studies have done is only "to confirm what the Andean population who is chronically impregnated with Coca already knew thousands of years ago". The author and his collaborators emphasized that the wrong use of cocaine ought to be rigorously controlled internationally, and also argued that the studies on oral Coca use ought to be separated from every political and police aspect and centered in the scientific and social analysis of the users. Also, the benefits of the use of oral Coca agonist therapy (cocalization/cocainization) for cocaine dependence reduction in a simple, economic and harmless manner should be shown; as well as the studies about the toxicological and physio-psychological effects of Coca powder oral consumption, a new over-the-counter modality, used for medical, nutritional and energy goals. -History, botany, Coca leaves, Coca infusions, Coca powder, chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, toxicity, cocaine liability and dependence, cocainization as agonist therapy, clinical researches, legal status, references, abstracts. (pocket, 114 pages) |