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"Alkaloids present include cocaine, cinnamylcocaine, tropacocaine and valerine. Cocaine is the methyl ester of benzoylecgonine, and can be semi-synthetically produced from ecgonine (Tyler et al. 1988). Cocaine is relatively unstable and is more often administered as cocaine hydrochloride—a more stable form. cocaine blocks nerve conduction upon local application, hence its employment as an anaesthetic (e.g. Novacaine). In large doses it is a cerebral stimulant and narcotic." - Andrew Pengelly, The Constituents of Medicinal Plants: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"Those who have a problem with cocaine or are tempted to use it again should talk to someone or check into a cocaine detox center. They can also call 800-COCAINE, a national line to help with this problem. Dare 1? Dare I bend my brain on that Night Queen cocaine notice me ... I'm what you used to be before you covered the door to your heart with that lie, but now all you do is count up how much you can buy Composted Brains Night Queen Cocaine She'll suck you dry, she'll pass you by that Night Queen cocaine." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"Coca and Cocaine The most well-known strongly stimulant plant material known is probably cocaine (see Figure 17.18), which is not used medicinally to any appreo FIGURE 17.18. The chemical structure of cocaine. ciable extent for its effects in this respect, although it is widely used as a drug of abuse. cocaine blocks reuptake of norepinephrine (noradrenaline), thus exaggerating typical stimulant effects, but some thinking associates it with direct stimulation of neurons in the CNS. cocaine is derived from the leaves of the coca plant, Erythroxylum coca Lam., E. novogratense var." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"Those who have a problem with cocaine or are tempted to use it again should talk to someone or check into a cocaine detox center. They can also call 800-COCAINE, a national line to help with this problem. Dare 1? Dare I bend my brain on that Night Queen cocaine notice me ... I'm what you used to be before you covered the door to your heart with that lie, but now all you do is count up how much you can buy Composted Brains Night Queen Cocaine She'll suck you dry, she'll pass you by that Night Queen cocaine." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"An Australian-Colombian banana importer was arrested in 2003 after 35 million dollars' worth of cocaine was found stashed in banana crates. Officers raiding his office at Kristel Foods found another 9 million dollars in cash. Seven Chiquita banana ships were stopped in 1997 containing more than a ton of cocaine. Another fruit industry professional in Montreal told me that almost all the city's drugs arrive sewn up in fruits. Even though fruits are tracked and documented at every transfer point, it remains impossible to search more than a small fraction of the cargo. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Likewise, given a choice between a pellet of food and a pellet of cocaine, a rat opts for cocaine until it dies.5 Now that's hardwiring! Another more commonly used—and abused-pleasure-stimulating plant compound is found in fruit: sugar. It's in the plant's survival interest to have animals eat its fruit, including the seeds. But how does a plant make an animal eat the fruit instead of its leaves? Easy; just stimulate the animal's pleasure center. Rats don't overeat rat chow, yet give them sugar or milk chocolate and wham, they can't stop gobbling." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Receptors in our brains account for our addiction to nicotine, heroin, and cocaine, and similar cravings have been identified for fat and sugars, as well. The way to break the fat habit is to abstain entirely from eating it—just as those who use heroin, cocaine, and nicotine must give them up once and for all. We have all seen what happens with many people who go on reduced-fat diets in order to lose weight. A diet that permits even a modest amount of animal, dairy, and oil fat still feeds the habit. The craving remains." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Cocaine addicts keep using cocaine because they long for the feeling of their first high, but it's something they'll never be able to get, just like Marcia couldn't go home again by eating ice cream and cake. You can't return to the comfort of infancy no matter how much food you eat. Some of my patients say that eating puts them into a bubble where all their worries seem to disappear, much like the state that babies experience when they nurse. Others tell me that eating makes them feel insulated and protected instead of vulnerable and raw, which is like being held close to your mother's chest." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Enhanced reactivity and vulnerability to cocaine following methylphenidate treatment in adolescent rats. Neuropsy-chopharmacology 2001 Nov;25(5):651-61. 6. Torres-Reveron A, Dow-Edwards DL. Repeated administration of methylphenidate in young, adolescent, and mature rats affects the response to cocaine later in adulthood. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2005 Mar 19 7. Achat-Mendes C, Anderson KL, Itzhak Y. Methylphenidate and MDMA adolescent exposure in mice: long-lasting consequences on cocaine-induced reward and psychomotor stimulation in adulthood. Neuropharmacology 2003 Jul;45(l): 106-15. 8." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Cocaine is relatively unstable and is more often administered as cocaine hydrochloride—a more stable form. cocaine blocks nerve conduction upon local application, hence its employment as an anaesthetic (e.g. Novacaine). In large doses it is a cerebral stimulant and narcotic. Its adrenergic action is due to inhibition of reuptake of noradrenaline, creating an amphetamine-like effect, though only of very short duration. Cocaine is quickly absorbed into the lungs, heart and brain with almost instant effects, leading to psychic dependence and tolerance." - Andrew Pengelly, The Constituents of Medicinal Plants: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"Likewise, given a choice between a pellet of food and a pellet of cocaine, a rat opts for cocaine until it dies.5 Now that's hardwiring! Another more commonly used—and abused-pleasure-stimulating plant compound is found in fruit: sugar. It's in the plant's survival interest to have animals eat its fruit, including the seeds. But how does a plant make an animal eat the fruit instead of its leaves? Easy; just stimulate the animal's pleasure center. Rats don't overeat rat chow, yet give them sugar or milk chocolate and wham, they can't stop gobbling." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The exception, Strattera (atomoxetine), was originally tested as an antidepressant before being tested and approved as a treatment for ADHD, and it is not chemically related to methylphenidate, amphetamine, and cocaine. Strattera has serious risks of its own. Like so many drugs produced by Eli Lilly, including Darvon, Prozac, and Zyprexa, the company marketed it as potentially safer than its competitors when in reality it can be more more deadly." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Hollander, lead author of the study and an emergency physician, stressed that if patients who have recently used cocaine are treated with the same methods as patients who have not used cocaine, they could experience life-threatening complications. cocaine toxins can severely affect the coronary arteries, so it's important to report cocaine and other illegal drug use. Lying about it could kill you. • If you use herbal therapies such as ginseng, licorice, and lycium, be sure to tell the emergency-room physician about it." - Sheldon P. Blau, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R. and Elaine Fantle Shimberg, How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive: A Guide to Patient Power (Get the book.)

"Use of illicit drugs (especially crack cocaine), alcohol, or cigarettes has been associated with an increased risk of STDs and PID. Substance abuse also increases the potential for HIV infection. Women with HIV are far more likely to have PID. Vaginal douching may be associated with PID and even ectopic pregnancy. In several studies, women with PID are more likely to use douching than women without PID. One study found that douching within the previous two months was associated with a 70 percent increase in PID." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Risk factors for HSV-2: female, African-American, Mexican-American, older, low education level, poverty, cocaine use, a history of two to four or more lifetime sexual partners, unprotected sex, having a sexual partner with genital herpes, living in the southeastern United States (higher rate of seropositive individuals). • The majority of primary genital herpes infections are asymptomatic or unnoticed. • All HSV infections establish latency and are considered incurable. The present infection may actually be a recurrence of an asymptomatic infection acquired some time in the past." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The chemical structure of cocaine. ciable extent for its effects in this respect, although it is widely used as a drug of abuse. cocaine blocks reuptake of norepinephrine (noradrenaline), thus exaggerating typical stimulant effects, but some thinking associates it with direct stimulation of neurons in the CNS. cocaine is derived from the leaves of the coca plant, Erythroxylum coca Lam., E. novogratense var." - Amarjit S. Basra, Handbook of Medicinal Plants (Get the book.)

"In case an inflamed brain and an addicition stronger than cocaine doesn't convince you, here are a few other reasons HFCS (and other forms of sugar) is harmful to the brain: •r Sugar uses up your body's store of vitamins and minerals without providing any in return. • ?High sugar consumption is tied to so many mental disorders it's hard to list them all.They include lower IQ, anxiety, aggressive behavior, hyperactivity, depression, eating disorders, fatigue, learning difficulties, and premenstrual syndrome.4 • :* Sugar causes crusting in your brain." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "This is a potent form of sugar that is sweeter than regular sugar, increases appetite,1 promotes obesity more than regular sugar,2 and is more addictive than cocaine.' It also leads to diabetes and an inflamed brain. It is now the main form of sweetener in all processed and junk foods from cola to energy snack bars, from yogurt to turkey slices, from bread to salad dressing, and even ketchup." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"In much the same way, human bodies that can cope with chewing coca leaves—a longstanding relationship between native people and the coca plant in parts of South America—cannot cope with cocaine or crack, even though the same active ingredients are present in all three. Reductionism as a way of understanding food or drugs may be harmless, even necessary, but reductionism in practice—reducing food or drug plants to their most salient chemical compounds—can lead to problems." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Environmental chemicals such as mercury and lead, many prescription drugs such as Dilantin and Accutane, recreational drugs including cocaine and alcohol, and even some illnesses including rubella, diabetes, and herpes are all potentially teratogenic agents and able to cause loss of a pregnancy, birth defects, or pregnancy complications. Pesticides and other contaminants found in the environment (including our food and water) can disrupt the hormonal and chromosomal cycles, leading to breaks in the DNA and a wide range of deformities and abnormalities in all animal species, including humans." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"That's why people abuse methamphetamine and cocaine. Paxil can also produce an emotional flattening or anesthesia that temporarily feels like an improvement. Probably more than most antidepressants, Paxil is a powerful spellbinder, making people think they are doing better when in fact they are doing worse. Not quite two months after starting Paxil, Elliot committed suicide by hanging himself in a closet." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Deinstitutionalization coincided with the arrival of AIDS and the emergence of "crack" cocaine in the early 1980s, and the numbers of the homeless mentally ill rose dramatically across the country. Both Asylum Psychiatry and Community Psychiatry have been swept away by a new Corporate Psychiatry. Aslyums, today called state hospitals, now house about 5 percent of the patients they did at their peak; Community Psychiatry is being eroded by managed care and the national obsession with psychiatric medications." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Only one in five voters said the press should report that a presidential candidate is taking antidepressants, placing it below spouse abuse, income tax evasion, exaggerated military or academic record, ongoing or past affair, homosexuality, cocaine and marijuana use, or a past drinking problem as an area of concern.41 In 2004, in a Rice University study of attitudes toward mental illness in the Houston area, respondents were twelve times more likely to ascribe the cause of mental illness to a brain disorder than to a character flaw." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Priapism can also be a sign of carbon monoxide poisoning as well as alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and other drug abuse. In addition, it can signal a spinal cord injury or disease, as well as an injury to the penis. Priapism is considered a medical emergency that, if untreated, can lead to serious scarring and permanent ED. WARNING SIGN Erectile dysfunction (ED) may be the earliest warning sign of heart disease. In fact, according to some recent studies, coronary heart disease tends to crop up about 3 years after the ED.The more severe the ED, the more serious the heart disease." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Other research shows that drugs such as cocaine damage D2 receptors, the slots the neurotransmitter plugs into to signal salience. If you continually subject your brain to an overload of dopamine, the number of receptors will dwindle. So regardless of what your brain looked like when you were born, the more drugs you take, the more drugs you'll need to feel the same rush. The same is true of people of people who overeat: "You need more, more, more to make you feel good," says Brookhaven's Gene-Jack Wang." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Plus, cocaine addicts are usually far more cunning and hostile. As in almost every case I've evaluated, Adam's memory was jumbled up and spotty for the robberies, and it was very difficult to reconstruct each of them. I spent hours reconstructing events from the police records and interviews with family and friends. Without knowing anything about Adam's subjective state of mind, the bizarre behavior pattern would indicate that he was mentally disturbed." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Some tremors are drug-induced and can be a tip-off to the overuse or abuse of caffeine, nicotine, tranquilizers, amphetamines, and cocaine. And morning tremors are a dead giveaway for alcohol abuse. Tremors are also a common reaction to antipsychotic drugs, theophylline (for asthma), Dilantin (for epilepsy), and Compazine (a tranquilizer and antinausea medicine), as well as the herbal stimulants ephedra, ginkgo biloba, and ginseng. Tremors sometimes signal alkalosis, a pH imbalance (too little acid in body fluids)." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Notorious Colombian drug smuggler Alberto Orlandez-Gamboa shipped cocaine into New York inside banana skins. The Mexican drug cartel headed by Amado Carrillo Fuentes brought in tons of drugs each month on fruit-carrying eighteen-wheelers and 727 airplanes (for which Fuentes became dubbed the "Lord of the Sky"). In November 2004, a shipment of Hit Fruit Drink cartons containing 1.7 million dollars' worth of liquefied heroin was seized in Miami." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "In the summer of2007, police uncovered 38 million dollars' worth of cocaine at the port of Montreal. When I heard the report on the radio, I turned up the volume, certain that fruits were implicated. Sure enough, the drugs were found in buckets of frozen mango pulp. Fruit trucks are also used to smuggle human immigrants. In 2007, immigration agents in Huixtla, Mexico, were tipped off by the smell of human sweat when searching an eighteen-wheeler full of bananas. They found ninety-four people hiding among the fruit crates." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

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