Cocaine Discs

Silent Cocaine Poisoning

Background: Cocaine poisoning is known for causing severe clinical effects such as tachycardia, hypertension, agitation and confusion. Absence of clinical manifestations in cocaine poisoning is unusual. Case report: A 26-year old man, known to be a cocaine addict, declared that he was forced by cocaine dealers to swallow many tablets of cocaine, six hours prior to admission to emergency departm...

Thin Discs, Thick Discs and Transition Zones

Accretion onto a compact object must occur through a disc when the material has some initial angular momentum. Thin discs and the thicker low radiative efficiency accretion flows (LRAFs) are solutions to this problem that have been widely studied and applied. This is an introduction to these accretion flows within the context of X-ray binaries and cataclysmic variables. Accretion describes the ...

Imaginal discs

and clatter. The Italians call them buffone — clowns. The large white grubs feed on roots and can be a major pest of grass and potatoes. Now controlled by pesticides, they were once far more abundant locally. In 1574, adult cockchafers were so numerous in the Severn Valley that their drowned bodies blocked the wheels of watermills, the book describes. In parts of Europe, if not in Britain, the ...

Cocaine

Cocaine.

Cocaine, derived from the shrub Erythroxylon coca, was both chemically extracted and reported to be psychotogenic in 1859. Included in the original formulation of ‘Coca-Cola’, it was declared illegal under the Harrison Act of 1914. It has been used as a local anaesthetic and in analgesic cocktails. In one study, the main routes of administration were: smoking, 40%; intranasal, 32%; and injectin...