Coca, Cocaine and Drug Trafficking

Coca and Cocaine in the United States

The coca leaf and cocaine papers

RICHARD DEACON, Matthew Hopkins; Witch Finder General, London, Frederick Muller, 1976, 8vo, pp. 223, illus., £6.50. The current interest in witchcraft and the occult continues unabated, and no doubt this book is intended for this insatiable appetite. In addition, however, the author, who is a professional writer, claims the relevance of historical witchcraft to similar practices today, which is...

Coca Exotica. The illustrated story of cocaine

A large-format, coffee-table book on the history of cocaine is peculiarly appropriate to modem times. The drug is said to be booming in chic circles yet holds "recurrent bogeyman" status in the more puritan salons. It gets up both sides' noses, so to speak. And this dichotomy seems to have informed Kennedy's work; his labour of love lacks the detail of serious history yet misses the effervescen...

The children of mama coca: coca, cocaine and the fate of harm reduction in South America.

The paper reviews the main findings from substance misuse research carried out over the last two decades in South America looking at the main initiatives aimed at reducing drug related harm and curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne diseases. The current challenges faced by harm reduction in the region are analysed from the perspective of the history of co...

Detection and Characterization of Cocaine and Related Tropane Alkaloids in Coca Leaf, Cocaine, and Biological Specimens.

Cocaine, atropine and scopolamine are the three most important alkaloids in the tropane group. The detection of these alkaloids and their metabolites, at trace levels in biological matrices, is reviewed. These matrices include human and rat physiological fluids such as blood, urine, and saliva as well as human body tissue and hair. The detection, isolation, and determination of cocaine and rela...