Archive for the ‘Cocaine’ Category

Lindsay Lohan Blames Father for Cocaine Addiction

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is blaming her father for her own interest in cocaine, as he is a former drug addict. Lindsay has been in rehab three times since 2007, and has been caught with cocaine by police.
February 24th, 2010 | Cocaine | Read More

Lady Gaga Admits Cocaine Addiction in Biography

Lady Gaga (whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) has spoken out about her former addiction to cocaine in her new biography, LADY GAGA: Just Dance, written by Helia Phoenix. The 23-year-old pop star said, “I wanted to be the artists I loved, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol…And...
February 8th, 2010 | Cocaine | Read More

Study Examines Sudden Deaths Related to Cocaine Use

Forensic pathologists have shown that over three percent of all sudden deaths in southwest Spain are related to the use of cocaine. They believe their findings can be extrapolated to much of the rest of Europe, indicating that cocaine use is a growing public health problem in Europe and that there is...
January 13th, 2010 | Cocaine | Read More

Why Some People Can’t Quit Cocaine

Drug dependency is a recurrent but treatable kind of addiction. However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called “scale of craving,” an antisocial personality type, and...
November 23rd, 2009 | Cocaine | Read More

Cocaine Abuse Can Lead to Memory and Cognitive Problems

New animal studies suggest that cocaine abuse, in addition to pre-existing traits or lifestyle factors, can lead to memory and other cognitive problems.
October 23rd, 2009 | Cocaine | Read More

Cocaine Vaccine Being Tested

Vaccine-like shots to keep cocaine abusers from getting high also helped them fight their addiction in the first study of this approach to treating cocaine addiction. The shots didn’t work perfectly, but the researchers say their limited success is promising enough to suggest the intriguing vaccine...
October 4th, 2009 | Cocaine | Read More

Mackenzie Phillips Opens Up About Addiction

When Mackenzie Phillips was 10 years old, her father, John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas, taught her how to roll a joint. She first tried cocaine when she was 11. One week after her 18th birthday, she was arrested for the first time. Now, at 49, Phillips is revealing the most shocking part of...
September 23rd, 2009 | Cocaine | Read More

Coming Back From Crack Cocaine Addiction

It may have started innocently enough. Someone handed you a crack pipe and urged you to take a hit. “It’s so cool. You’ve gotta try this!” But the smoked, as opposed to the snorted, version of cocaine comes with a whole lot of its own troubles, the worst of which may be that you...
August 9th, 2009 | Cocaine | Read More

Bobby Brown Blames Cocaine Addiction on Whitney Houston

In his new autobiography, rap star Bobby Brown says he was first introduced to cocaine by his ex-wife, Whitney Houston. The former drug addict, who was married to Houston from 1992 to 2006, has revealed shocking details of the couple’s relationship in Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Noting...
August 7th, 2009 | Cocaine | Read More

Treatment Options for Cocaine Addiction

Although there is no proven pharmacological drug yet to treat addiction to cocaine, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is working to develop medications that are suitable for use in the treatment of cocaine addiction. There’s even research into the development of a vaccine for cocaine...
June 3rd, 2009 | Cocaine | Read More