Cocaine Addiction Term Paper

Cocaine is defined as a “crystalline alkaloid, obtained from coca leaves, used as a local anesthetic and also widely used as an illicit drug for its stimulant and euphorigenic properties,” this is the definition of cocaine, according to Dictionary.com. Cocaine comes in two forms, a powdered or a rock crystal form which it’s called crack to differentiate amongst them. When you want to obtain more knowledge of this drug through online sources, its basic information found to vary from websites to articles unless more research is done. And there are some online sites that elaborate more on the concerns and the effects of cocaine. Furthermore, depending on the author’s educational background, knowledge and their research, are the readers able to receive accurate information on whichever topic or in this matter an illicit drug. There were two websites with different approaches towards conveying material in relation to cocaine. One website created through the National Institute on …show more content…
Scientist discovered cocaine promotes change in the brain through other neurotransmitters such as serotonin, gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), norepinephrine and glutamate. An idea to creating medicine to act as dopamine D3 receptor pharmacotherapeutic associated with cognitive, emotional and endocrine functions. Disulfiram used as part of treatment of alcoholics to make alcohol taste unpleasant, seems to be the most promising. But no valid evidence of disulfiram’s relation to cocaine. If this would work researchers are looking into identifying patient’s dopamine beta hydroxylase genotype to determine the effectiveness of an individual’s rehabilitation from cocaine. Along with these project a cocaine vaccine to reduce the risk of relapse, it would reproduce cocaine antibodies that would attach to the cocaine preventing it from reaching the