cocaine addiction

How Does the Cocaine “industry” Work?

Question by brex25: How does the cocaine “industry” work?
First, how does cocaine addiction relate economically? Is coke itself addictive, be it physically or mentally, or are there additives laced in the drug that make it addictive, like in cigarettes, in order to increase profit? And if so, at which level of cocaine distribution is this done, and who profits? Is cocaine a market-driven product like any legitimate product or does it follow different “rules” i.e., is its distribution based on the supply and demand model or because of its underworldly nature (and addictive elements), is cocaine heavily “demanded” with a never-enough “supply.” Is the “supply” regulated by cocaine industry leaders similar to the way OPEC regulates oil output to maintain profits?

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She Vanquished a Cruel Addiction, but Challenges Remain

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Chalk it up to an addict's apathy. If her body, already weakened from crack cocaine use, also had to endure beatings from drug dealers she had cheated, so what? Threats on her life made at knife point for the same transgression? No difference. What … Read more on New York Times

Zac Efron a Cokehead? High School Musical Star Did Rehab for Cocaine Addiction


Zac Efron a cokehead? High School Musical star did rehab for cocaine addiction – Former High School Musical star Zac Efron secretly completed a stint in rehab for a serious cocaine addiction five months ago, according to a report by TMZ. …

 

Toronto council reins in scandal-plagued mayor

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But he and his family insist he is not an addict and does not need rehab. In a TV interview Monday night for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Ford said he had only smoked crack cocaine once, calling it "an isolated incident." He denied that he has … Read more on Pioneer Press

Prison Time for Federal Drug Plea in Aurora Case

Prison time for federal drug plea in Aurora case

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For sentencing purposes, prosecutors pointed out he also sold nearly $ 1,100 in crack cocaine in May 2011. Webber … Authorities said Thompson used threats to get an employee at the Fifth Third Bank to give him customer account information. Thompson … Read more on Aurora Beacon News

 

Cache of drugs leads to Newburgh teen's arrest

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Study Reveals First Effective Medicine to Treat Cocaine Dependence

Study Reveals First Effective Medicine to Treat Cocaine Dependence

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Oct. 25, 2013 — New research published in JAMA Psychiatry reveals that topiramate, a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat epilepsy and migraine headaches, also could be the first reliable medication to help treat … Read more on Science Daily (press release)

 

Criminal justice

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Guardian Profile: David Tennant, Our Favourite Doctor … His Time Has Come

Guardian profile: David Tennant, our favourite Doctor … his time has come

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Then he is off to crack the US in a remake of Broadchurch for Fox. He would also like to direct – he has a long gestating theatre production of A Midsummer Night's Dream – but as he told the Guardian last week: "It's going to have to wait for now … Read more on The Guardian

 

Rob Ford's Staff Were Concerned About Drugs, Drunk Driving And Prostitution

Ford Says He's Receiving Support From Team of Health-Care Professionals

Ford says he's receiving support from team of health-care professionals

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With his supportive wife Renata making an extremely rare appearance by his side, a defiant Ford denied allegations of cocaine use and was adamant that he is taking steps to address his problems. Ford refused to divulge the … “I am accepting … Read more on CP24 Toronto’s Breaking News

 

Denham Springs man allegedly injects girlfriend with fatal dose of heroin

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Letters: Irony Abounds in Trudeau's 'ladies' Night Fundraiser

letters: Irony abounds in Trudeau's 'ladies' night fundraiser

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Rather they should all be assumed to be pathological and dishonest, until proven otherwise, and treated accordingly. What we lose in comforting illusions, we will gain in enforced honesty. … Reporter Joseph Brean asks why all the fuss about the … Read more on National Post

 

Anne Kingston on the cultural script and the real work in recovery

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Few Answers for Federal-Prison Overcrowding

Few answers for federal-prison overcrowding

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If lawmakers were to apply retroactively new prison terms that they approved in 2010 for crack cocaine-related crimes, they would cut prison spending by $ 229 million over 10 years and free up 22,000 “bed-years.” One person released 12 months early … Read more on Columbus Dispatch

 

Charita Goshay: Off-year elections, too, are important

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Probably Should Have Stuck to His First Love — Sports

Toronto mayor Rob Ford probably should have stuck to his first love — sports

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And when Ford made his admission that he had indeed smoked crack cocaine on Tuesday, a clip that raced around the world, he was wearing an NFL tie. The Internet immediately … He has arm-wrestled Hulk Hogan — the Hulkster threw the match — and … Read more on National Post

 

Huddersfield woman in court after stealing from B&M Stores and Matalan to fund

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