History of Cocaine:
Spanish explorers first found cocaine when they noticed that the natives of South America were able to fight off their fatigue by chewing on coca leaves this was used to make the medical account of the coca plant published in 1569. Around 1860, scientist Albert Neiman isolated the cocaine from the coca leaves and described that if the cocaine was put on the tongue it had the same feeling as an anesthetic. In the early 1880’s Angelo Mariani produced a “medicinal” wine called Vin Mariani, it contained about 11% of alcohol and 6.5 mg of the cocaine in every once of it. Famous psychotherapist, Sigmond Freud, recommended cocaine for a variety of illnesses and for other addictions such as: alcohol and morphine, in the end his patients began to become addicted to the cocaine. Then in 1886, John Pemberton developed Coca Cola, a drink that contained cocaine and some caffeine, don’t worry the cocaine has been removed from the recipe in 1906. In 1914 the Harrison Narcotic Act was passed to make cocaine illegal this led to the production of crack cocaine and is now a major drug problem.
The effects of Cocaine
Dose’s of 25-150 mg of cocaine is taken just by being inhaled. Within a seconds to a few minutes cocaine can cause: a feeling of euphoria, excitement, reduced hunger, and a feeling of strength. After these symptons or “high”, last about an hour, the user of the cocaine then “crashes”, or period of depression. This crash is what causes the user of the cocaine to want more cocaine and usually become addicted. This can cause the addict to become depressed, paranoid, and anxious this can lead to them to go into long periods of sleep. Various doses of cocaine also produces neurological and behavioral problems such as: dizziness, headache, movement problems, anxiety, insomnia,depression, and hallucinations.An overdose of cocaine can also cause death. This is because cocaine causes a large increase in blood pressure that may result in bleeding in the brain. This construction of blood form the brain can also cause a stroke.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/coca.html
Spanish explorers first found cocaine when they noticed that the natives of South America were able to fight off their fatigue by chewing on coca leaves this was used to make the medical account of the coca plant published in 1569. Around 1860, scientist Albert Neiman isolated the cocaine from the coca leaves and described that if the cocaine was put on the tongue it had the same feeling as an anesthetic. In the early 1880’s Angelo Mariani produced a “medicinal” wine called Vin Mariani, it contained about 11% of alcohol and 6.5 mg of the cocaine in every once of it. Famous psychotherapist, Sigmond Freud, recommended cocaine for a variety of illnesses and for other addictions such as: alcohol and morphine, in the end his patients began to become addicted to the cocaine. Then in 1886, John Pemberton developed Coca Cola, a drink that contained cocaine and some caffeine, don’t worry the cocaine has been removed from the recipe in 1906. In 1914 the Harrison Narcotic Act was passed to make cocaine illegal this led to the production of crack cocaine and is now a major drug problem.The effects of Cocaine
Dose’s of 25-150 mg of cocaine is taken just by being inhaled. Within a seconds to a few minutes cocaine can cause: a feeling of euphoria, excitement, reduced hunger, and a feeling of strength. After these symptons or “high”, last about an hour, the user of the cocaine then “crashes”, or period of depression. This crash is what causes the user of the cocaine to want more cocaine and usually become addicted. This can cause the addict to become depressed, paranoid, and anxious this can lead to them to go into long periods of sleep. Various doses of cocaine also produces neurological and behavioral problems such as: dizziness, headache, movement problems, anxiety, insomnia,depression, and hallucinations.An overdose of cocaine can also cause death. This is because cocaine causes a large increase in blood pressure that may result in bleeding in the brain. This construction of blood form the brain can also cause a stroke.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/coca.html
Good job. This is well researched and detailed. You may want to include a picture
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