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The word "miracle" is exactly right to describe cocaine's first, rapturous reception by the medical community, which had only just discovered how to alleviate pain with narcotics.
A Miracle Drug's Dark Side Deborah Blum 2011
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If he hadn't succumbed to cocaine's little white lines, and the larger lies they induce, Stevens would never have been banned from a game he loves.
Matt Stevens: 'I wouldn't wish the stress of it on anyone' 2011
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This same characteristic, however, likely made him particularly vulnerable to cocaine's seductive power and accelerated his descent into addiction.
Jason Eric Schiffman, M.D., M.A., M.B.A.: The Successful Drug Addict Jason Eric Schiffman 2011
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The author can't really answer such questions—I'm not sure anyone could—but he raises them in an elegantly subversive way, intertwining the two men's horrific struggles with modern scientific findings that illuminate the nature of addiction and cocaine's almost uniquely destructive chemistry.
A Miracle Drug's Dark Side Deborah Blum 2011
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This same characteristic, however, likely made him particularly vulnerable to cocaine's seductive power and accelerated his descent into addiction.
Jason Eric Schiffman, M.D., M.A., M.B.A.: The Successful Drug Addict Jason Eric Schiffman 2011
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About 15 years ago, Bourdain might have been the cocaine's intended end user.
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Remnants of the Shining Path guerrillas in Peru ramped up production of coca leaves, cocaine's raw ingredient, to 119,000 tonnes last year.
Jessica Anne Jordan Burton: beauty queen defies cartel beasts in Bolivia's war on cocaine Andrés Schipani in Trinidad 2010
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I find Obama's candor refreshing, but like it or not cocaine's a drug that freaks most people out, even if it's mostly used by affluent whites.
Hillary Campaign Official Says GOP Will Target Obama For Drug Use 2009
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I find Obama's candor refreshing, but like it or not cocaine's a drug that freaks most people out, even if it's mostly used by affluent whites.
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While the researchers aren't suggesting that these genetic modifications be made in humans, the work brings to light the key protein that controls cocaine's effects in the body, which may help scientists develop medications that achieve the same results and therefore help addicts overcome their dependence.
If you go down to the end of the town, you better not go alone 2006
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