After smoking "crack" cocaine and consuming large quantities of ethanol, a 36-year-old man developed multiple, bilateral, deep, and superficial cerebral hematomas. He was hypertensive for several days, but angiography revealed no evidence of vascular malformation or vasculitis. The multifocality of the hematomas and lack of underlying disease suggest that the hemorrhages resulted from cocaine-i...

The year 2014 represents an opportunity to acknowledge the 30 th anniversary of the 1984 dawning of the crack cocaine epidemic. The Journal of Equity in Health devotes the present Volume (3, No. 1, February, 2014) to a series of articles that highlight the significance of the public health crisis that began with the dawning of the crack epidemic. Meanwhile, crack remains a focus of public healt...

Effect of thermal treatment on the fatigue crack propagation behavior of a new Ni-base superalloy Xingbo Liu a,*, ling Xu a, Ever Barbero a, Wei-Di Cao b, Richard L. Kennedy b a West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6106, USA b Allvac, an AT! Technologies Company, Monroe, NC 28111-5030, USA Received 22 October 2006; received in revised form 23 March 2007; accepted 10 May 2007 The effec...

Chairman Biden, members of the Subcommittee, I am Diana Murphy, Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission (the " Commission ") and a judge on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. I appreciate the opportunity to testify today about federal cocaine sentencing policy, and the Subcommittee should be commended for holding this important hearing. Although Congress and the Commission have been ...

BACKGROUND Individual and sociocultural factors may pose significant barriers for drug abusers seeking treatment, particularly for African-American crack cocaine abusers. However, there is evidence that pretreatment interventions may reduce treatment initiation barriers. This study examined the effects of a pretreatment intervention designed to enhance treatment motivation, decrease crack use, ...

This manuscript provides an overview of the current scientific literature on the impact of maternal drug use, specifically opioids and cocaine, during pregnancy on the acute and long-term outcomes of infants and toddlers from birth through age 3 years. Emphasis with regard to opioids is placed on heroin and opioid substitutes used to treat opioid addiction, including methadone, which has long b...

Models of addiction include abnormalities in parts of the brain involving executive function/inhibitory control. Although previous studies have reported evidence of structural abnormalities in cocaine-dependent individuals, none have specifically targeted the homeless. The present preliminary study investigated brain structure in such an understudied group, homeless, crack-cocaine-dependent Afr...

OBJECTIVE Although cocaine use is a significant public health problem, there is relative paucity of scientific data on long-term neurocognitive consequences of the exposure to the substance. METHODS This study examined the association between crack cocaine dependence and neuropsychological performance. An extended battery of neuropsychological tests was administered to 15 abstinent cocaine ab...