What Is Cocaine? How Addictive Is Cocaine?
Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:00 Written by Mike Tuesday, 13 September 2011 04:00
Cocaine is a bitter, addictive pain blocker that is extracted from the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, also known as the coca scrub, a plant that comes from the Andean highlands in South America. Cocaine is the most powerful stimulant of natural origin. The name of “cocaine” came from the plant “coca”. When Coca-Cola first came out it contained nine milligrams of cocaine per glass – in 1903 it was …
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