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Understanding Cocaine: Effects, Usage, and Cultural Impact

This quiz explores various aspects of cocaine, including its cultural significance, physiological effects, and media representation.

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1 What role did Teddy Arundell play in the TV series Cocaine?

2 What does the following picture show?  A piece of compressed cocaine powder   Alternate two-dimensional molecular diagram of cocaine hydrochloride   Cocaine binds directly to the DAT1 transporter, inhibiting reuptake with more efficacy than amphetamines which phosphorylate it causing internalization; instead primarily releasing DAT (which cocaine does not do) and only inhibiting its reuptake as a secondary, and much more minor, mode of action than cocaine and in another manner: from the opposite conformation/orientation to DAT.   Data from The Lancet suggests Cocaine as the 2nd most dependent and 2nd most harmful of 20 drugs.[76] Some experts however rate nicotine dependency higher than cocaine.[77]

3 Mate de coca or coca-leaf infusion is also a traditional method of consumption and is often recommended in coca producing countries, like Peru and Bolivia, to ameliorate some symptoms of ________.

4 Cocaine, Crack cocaine and Mexican Drug War are all:

5 How is Cocaine excreted?

6 Who played 4 the TV series Cocaine?

7 Because of the way it affects the mesolimbic reward pathway, cocaine is ________.

8 The article stated that drinking two cups of the tea per day gave a mild stimulation, increased ________, and mood elevation, and the tea was essentially harmless.

9 Any material not directly absorbed through the mucous membranes is collected in ________ and swallowed (this 'drip' is considered pleasant by some and unpleasant by others).

10 Who played Loki the TV series Cocaine?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • former Eight is Enough actress Susan Richardson battled an addiction to cocaine after using the drug for weight loss following her pregnancy.
  • the inmates of San Pedro prison run a hotel for visiting tourists and sell cocaine to the local community.
  • three years after being arrested for dealing in cocaine, former quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners Charles Thompson managed to win a national championship with Central State University.
  • former KGBR disc jockey Tom Lyons advised his son against a career in radio by saying "Sell coke, run guns ... but don't ever go into radio.".
  • best-selling author Laurence Leamer, author of The Kennedy Women, spent two years in Peru while researching the cocaine trade for his book Assignment.
  • Pure Mule upset "a lot of people" and caused a politician to comment on the "ticking time bomb" of teenage sex, cocaine and sexual promiscuity in rural Ireland.
  • an adrenergic storm can be caused by a cocaine overdose, use of the MAOI class of antidepressants, or a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
  • German chemist Albert Niemann became the first person to isolate cocaine in 1859.
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