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Psychological Effects Of Cocaine Use

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Psychological Effects of Cocaine Use
Richard Estes
Caledonia-Mumford High School

Abstract In this paper the many physical and psychological effects of Cocaine use will be presented to the reader. The reader will be able to see the rough timeline of Cocaine use and how it has evolved into the narcotic that is seen today. It will be clear to see just how much the theories on the drug has changed throughout history as a one point Sigmund Freud himself promoted the drug as healthy and could see no fault within its effects (UXL Encyclopedia of Science, 2015). In today’s world it is clear that cocaine is in fact dangerous and it is up to the reader to decide whether the physical effects or psychological effects are more drastic.

Psychological Effect Caused by Cocaine Use Coke, C, Toot, Flake, Snow, Booga Suga, the list of names goes on and on but one thing that all these have in common is that they all refer to one drug, cocaine (Feinberg 1984). Cocaine is a very addicting drug and contrary to early belief can and will cause gross psychological and some physical effects. The “wonder drug” as it was so affectionately called has turned out to not be wonderful at all. Cocaine use began roughly around the late fifteenth century, majorly anyway, when the Spanish began giving raw coca leaves to their workers as it enabled them to do massive amounts of work in their gold and silver mines (UXL Encyclopedia of Science, 2015). It was not

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