Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that “cocaine is no worse than whiskey” as he suggested the global cocaine industry could be “easily dismantled” if the drug was legalized worldwide.

[73] suggesting that arrhythmia may not be a common phenomenon during the withdrawal phase. Studies investigating ventricular arrhythmia in association with cocaine use seldom reported positive ...

Persistent use of drugs such as cocaine and morphine is thought to ... of individual neurons in the brains of mice going ...

Bogota — Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro during a live broadcast of a government meeting.

Cocaine is a powerful stimulant drug derived ... It involves both physical dependence, marked by withdrawal symptoms, and psychological dependence, which includes intense cravings and loss of ...

The reward circuit becomes accustomed to larger amounts of dopamine, reinforcing drug use as the individual needs more to feel the same high and avoid withdrawal. Cocaine also affects the body ...

A federal jury has convicted two local men for their roles in a narcotics distribution ring involving bulk amounts of fentanyl, crack cocaine, cocaine, methamphetamine and other narcotics. As part of ...

Eleven studies describing sinoatrial (SA) nodal, atrioventricular (AV) nodal or infra-Hisian conduction parameters in the setting of cocaine use were found. Fourteen studies and two case series ...