Cocaine ...

I am reading a book by Dominic Streatfeild, COCAINE.

It is quite an interesting book... It tells the story of the coca plant, the indians of south America, the Spanish conquerors, Freud and Cocaine addiction...

I really enjoyed reading about the experiments done in order to demonstrate the binge pattern of cocaine taking!

"... A famous experiment in the late 60s gave two sets of laboratory rats unlimited access to cocaine for one group, and heroin for the other, and left them to take as much as they wanted. It didn't take either group long to discover the drugs. The difference was that heroin, a sedative, made the rats sleepy and thus put a brake on its own consumption. Cocaine, a stimulant, did exactly the opposite. Within a couple of days, the heroin rats had settled into a routine: taking heroin, sleeping, wandering around, eating, taking more heroin and going back to sleep. The cocaine rats, meanwhile, took cocaine. And that was all they did. Cocaine didn't make them feel like sleeping or eating. It made them feel like taking more cocaine. When they finally collapsed of exhaustion their intake of the drug stopped temporarily, but the moment they woke up they started taking it again. The experiment lasted a month, at the end of which all of the heroin rats had developed serious drug habits but were, otherwise, relatively healthy: they were eating, grooming, and drinking normally. All of the cocaine rats were dead. "

D.Streatfeild, Cocaine pp 91

pretty scary !

Do Not Use Drugs!
Use chocolate instead!

Oh, by the way, last night I watched Chocolat on BBC2... great movie, although by the end of it I had cravings for chocolate. Instead, I made a smoothie with Kiwis, Apples and orange juice! Simply Delicious!