A Look Back at Old-Time Medicines. ... Cocaine drops for toothache came on the market after doctors discovered its pain ... as the state of legitimate medicine evolved, new cures replaced the old.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The drug topiramate, used to treat epilepsy and migraines, is a safe and efficacious medicine for the treatment of cocaine dependence, U.S. researchers say. Study ...

Randy Jackson, testifying in his first-degree murder trial on Wednesday, said voices in his head told him to kill a Lake Harbor woman — voices spawned by a combination of cocaine and cold medicine.

It was a medical mystery. In the summer of 2008, a man and woman, both in their 20s and both cocaine users, were separately admitted to a Canadian hospital with unremitting fevers, flulike ...

A thin, shy 24-year-old arrived on time, ... Santiago helped V start Suboxone, an opioid treatment medication. V was also addicted to cocaine. For that, Santiago had nothing to offer.

When Leone was a 23-year-old college student, she discovered that cocaine could help her ease feelings of low self-esteem. “I thought I wasn’t good enough to achieve certain things in my life ...

Cocaine addiction is a persistent and insidious public health problem (Pomara et al, 2012). Despite evidence for sustained prevalence, clinical harm, and demand for treatment, the Food and Drug ...

An experimental medication targeting reward pathways in the brain helps people addicted to cocaine reduce their drug use – and could treat other substance use disorders, too.. Medications are ...