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Concurrent Use of Alcohol and Crack Cocaine is Associated with High Levels of Anger and Liability to Aggression

Substance Use & Misuse, 2020
Objective: To evaluate aggressiveness in individuals receiving treatment for alcohol and crack cocaine use, both alone and in combination with one another, in order to compare them to control subjects with no history of drug problems, using the State ...
Fernanda Rasch Czermainski, F. M. Lopes, F. Ornell, Luciano Santos Pinto Guimarães, Lisia von Diemen, F. Kessler, Rosa Maria Martins de Almeida   +6 more
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Race and Crack Cocaine

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993
To the Editor. —The recent article by Lillie-Blanton et al1and the accompanying Editorial2underscore the importance of selecting appropriate statistical methods when interpreting prevalence rates showing racial and ethnic differences. Their conclusions are consistent with previous research findings in which adjustments for sociodemographic variables ...
J, Gfroerer, R, Flewelling, J V, Rachal, R, Folsom   +3 more
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Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media.

Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 2019
CONTEXT The opioid epidemic is a major US public health crisis. Its scope prompted significant public outreach, but this response triggered a series of journalistic articles comparing the opioid epidemic to the crack cocaine epidemic.
C. Shachar, Tess Wise, G. Katznelson, A. Campbell   +3 more
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Crack cocaine-induced supraglottitis

Emergency Radiology, 2011
The use of illicit drugs remains a substantial public health concern in many societies. National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University reported in 2009 that local, state, and federal governments spend nearly half a trillion dollars per year on substance abuse and addiction [1].
Zacharias, Claudia, Linnau, Ken F., Golub, Justin S., Meyer, Tanya K., Hecht, Avram S., Mannelli, Lorenzo   +5 more
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“Crack” cocaine‐associated stroke

Neurology, 1987
We present three cases of "crack" cocaine-associated stroke, together with a review of cocaine-associated cerebrovascular complications. Unlike previously reported cases tentatively associating ischemic stroke with cocaine, our patients had no other potential causes for their strokes.
S R, Levine, J M, Washington, M F, Jefferson, S N, Kieran, M, Moen, H, Feit, K M, Welch   +6 more
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Crack Cocaine and Sex

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2004
The impact of crack cocaine use on number of sex partners was examined using bivariate analyses and a logistic model on a national treatment cohort of 4939 individuals. Number of sex partners over the last 12 months was dichotomized as none/one versus multiple partners for the logistic analyses. The model included 11 independent variables not including
Michael J, Maranda, Chenglong, Han, Gregory A, Rainone   +2 more
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Behavioral and neurobiological alterations induced by chronic use of crack cocaine

Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2019
Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine and can be smoked, and rapidly absorbed, and, in part for this reason, is potently addictive. It is hypothesized that crack cocaine is able to induce important changes in different tissues and organs, and thus
B. A. Rosario, Maria de Fátima Santana de Nazaré, D. Estadella, D. Ribeiro, M. Viana   +4 more
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Epidemiology, clinical features and management of patients presenting to European emergency departments with acute cocaine toxicity: comparison between powder cocaine and crack cocaine cases

Clinical toxicology, 2019
Objective: To analyse the epidemiology, clinical picture and emergency department (ED) management of a large series of patients who presented to European EDs after cocaine consumption, comparing data from powder (C1 group) and crack (C2 group) consumers.
Ò. Miró, P. Dargan, D. Wood, A. Dines, C. Yates, F. Heyerdahl, K. Hovda, I. Giraudon, M. Galicia   +8 more
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Crack Cocaine and Cocaine Hydrochloride

JAMA, 1996
Objective. —To review and discuss the differences and similarities between the use of crack cocaine and cocaine hydrochloride; and to determine how these findings might affect policies on the imprisonment and treatment of cocaine users. Data Sources. —English-language publications were identified through a computerized search (using MEDLINE) between
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Microbial Keratitis With Crack Cocaine

Archives of Ophthalmology, 1990
The use of "crack" cocaine is now reaching epidemic proportions, and with it a myriad of previously unrecognized medical complications have arisen. 1 An ophthalmologic condition called "crack eye" has recently been described. 2 Patients with crack eye have exhibited pain, photophobia, lacrimation, chemosis, and hyperemia in association with corneal ...
M B, Strominger, R, Sachs, P S, Hersh
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