Brazil's Emerging Market: Crack

Brazil's Emerging Market: Crack

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Cocaine traffickers are successfully exploring new markets to offset steep declines in US cocaine use in recent years. Though the US is still the world's biggest cocaine market, its share is shrinking as the result of greater domestic spending on …
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Steven Tyler Gives Away His Secret to Cocaine Use on Tour (Video)

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“I gotta tell yah if it wasn't for cocaine, I don't think the band would have played every state in the United States nine times in seven years,” he says. “Because there was no MTV back then, Peruvian marching powder, it was like, 'Iowa, three in a row …
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All aboard the Cocaine Express: Deadly cocaine trade reaches new depths

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There are plenty of sensational stories about the schemes Mexican traffickers have devised to move cocaine into US territory, including the use of ultralight airplanes, tunnels and even, on at least one occasion, a catapult. …
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Understanding Cocaine Addiction

WONG: An interesting study to tell you about. An Australian scientist is doping up honeybees with cocaine to study how their brain reacts to the drug, and possibly find a way to stop addiction in humans. STORY: The research found similarities between honeybees and humans both are driven by rewards and both have their judgment altered by cocaine. Report co-author Andrew Barron says its the first time it’s been shown that cocaine has been rewarding to an insect. Barren applied tiny doses of cocaine to the backs of bees before sending them out to hunt for food. Normally when bees return from collecting pollen they perform a dance to communicate where the food was found and how good it tasted. The cocaine-induced honeybees “waggle danced” much more enthusiastically than other bees. They also seemed to experience the same addictive pleasures as humans. [Andrew Barron, Report Co-author]: “What we saw as I was video recording the dances was that when bees were treated with cocaine, when they came back from their foraging trip they were far more likely to dance, and they danced far more vigorously so it was really as if cocaine changed their estimation of how successful they had been in their foraging trip.” Barron hopes to identify the neural pathways that cocaine targets in bees to find out more about the mechanisms involved in human addiction. He also wants to find out whether the drug has as devastating an effect on bee society as it does on humans. [Andrew Barron, Report Co …

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