Holmes is addicted to the use of cocaine and other refreshing stimulants ; ;

Coca, despite eradication programmes in some countries, remains an important crop for legal local use in a mildly stimulating herbal tea, and, both controversially and illegally, for the production of cocaine.

In June 2006, newspaper allegations of crack cocaine use resulted in Charles being suspended from both Coronation Street and BBC Radio 6 Music.

" A 2008 study found that recreational drug use ( including marijuana, cocaine, poppers and amphetamines ) had no effect on CD4 or CD8 T-cell counts, providing further evidence against a role of recreational drugs as a cause of AIDS.

The resulting documentary, Cracked Actor, featured a pasty and emaciated Bowie: the tour coincided with the singer's slide from heavy cocaine use into addiction, producing severe physical debilitation, paranoia and emotional problems.

In the new environment, his cocaine use increased ; so too did his interest in pursuits outside his musical career.

El Salvador is a transshipment point for cocaine ; cannabis produced for local consumption ; domestic drug use on the rise.

* In some states, the simple possession ( possession without intent to distribute, e. g., for personal use ) of certain types of illegal drugs, usually in more than a certain quantity but regardless of quantity for some drugs in some jurisdictions ( such as Virginia for cocaine and heroin ) regardless of quantity ;

Although technically illegal for purposes of distribution and use, the distribution, sale and use of cocaine was still legal for registered companies and individuals.

'" Some newspapers later claimed cocaine use caused blacks to rape white women and was improving their pistol marksmanship.

The use of the term ' narcotics ' in the title of the act to describe not just opiates but also cocaine — which is a central nervous system stimulant, not a narcotic — initiated a precedent of frequent legislative and judicial misclassification of various substances as ' narcotics '.

In January 1991, Grammer was given an additional two years ' probation for violating his original probation through additional cocaine use.

Though the band's drug use included cocaine, heroin, LSD and many others, Cris ' use of heroin and crack cocaine became so bad he rarely left his house except to obtain more drugs.

People in this field ( called behavioral pharmacologists ) typically use small animals ( e. g. rodents ) to study psychotherapeutic drugs such as antipsychotics, antidepressants and anxiolytics, and drugs of abuse such as nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine, etc.

That is, they do not examine the biological, psychological, and sociological roots that make people see the benefits encouraging them to kiss another, cheat on a test, use cocaine, or murder someone.

Harm reduction seeks to minimize the harm that can occur through the use of various drugs, whether legal ( e. g., alcohol and nicotine ), or illegal ( e. g., heroin and cocaine ).

He believes the use of cocaine stimulates his brain when it is not in use.

His associates were perplexed, as they felt his choice to direct such substandard material was a result of his renewed cocaine use and continued alcoholism.

A report in The New York Times described that the flushness of money and growth during these years had spawned a drug culture of sorts, with a rampant acceptance of cocaine use although the overall percent of actual users was most likely small.

The use of cocaine poses serious problems for the community and has a high potential for abuse.

Few if any such critics have anything favorable to say about the illicit drug trade, but they point out that under the current coca eradication policies, poor campesinos bear the brunt of efforts to combat it, while North American and European chemical companies ( which supply chemicals needed in the manufacture of cocaine ) and banks ( which annually launder hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal revenues ) continue to profit from the trade.

Some say he was poisoned, others say he died from a cocaine overdose.

He admitted that he used " a substance "— he did not say cocaine — for some seven years, or most of the period that the Oilers rested at the top of the NHL.

Between 2004 and 2006, after making several public appearances clearly intoxicated ( namely on the Late Show with David Letterman and the Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson ) and suffering drug-related arrests and probation violations, Love was sentenced to six months in lock down rehab due to struggles with various prescription drugs and cocaine.

His non-alcoholic recipe was inspired by the Coca wine of pharmacist Angelo Mariani, created in 1863 ; it still contained cocaine.

She was already a regular at the famed Studio 54 when she was a little girl, smoking cigarettes at age nine, drinking alcohol by the time she was 11, smoking marijuana at 12, and snorting cocaine at 13.

" His sanity — by his own later admission — had become twisted from cocaine ; he overdosed several times during the year, and was withering physically to an alarming degree.

By now he had broken his drug addiction ; biographer David Buckley writes that Isolar II was " Bowie's first tour for five years in which he had probably not anaesthetised himself with copious quantities of cocaine before taking the stage.

Parsons was frequently indulging in massive quantities of psilocybin and cocaine, so his performances were erratic at best, while much of the band's repertoire consisted of vintage honky-tonk and soul standards with few originals.

In May 1995, Busey was arrested for cocaine possession after being hospitalized for an overdose of cocaine and GHB.

In the 1890s the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of Americans homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $ 1. 50.

" Wright further stated that " cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes of the South and other sections of the country ," even though there was no evidence to support this claim.

Before the Act was passed, on February 8, 1914 The New York Times published an article entitled " Negro Cocaine ' Fiends ' Are New Southern Menace: Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower-Class Blacks " by Edward Huntington Williams which reported that Southern sheriffs had increased the caliber of their weapons from. 32 to. 38 to bring down Negroes under the effect of cocaine.

In 1988, Grammer was arrested for drunk driving and cocaine possession and sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Grammer was arrested again for cocaine possession in August 1990 and was sentenced to three years ' probation, fined $ 500, and given 300 hours of community service.

Lemmy was released without charge as Windsor Police arrested him for possession of cocaine and after testing the evidence it turned out to be speed.

When it was over, he was severely addicted to cocaine.

Morphine valerate produced industrially was one ingredient of a medication available for both oral and parenteral administration popular many years ago in Europe and elsewhere called Trivalin ( not to be confused with the current, unrelated herbal preparation of the same name ), which also included the valerates of caffeine and cocaine, with a version containing codeine valerate as a fourth ingredient being distributed under the name Tetravalin.

Taylor had abused cocaine and was suspended for the first four games of the season for his second violation of the league's substance abuse policy.

In 2005, water from the Po was found to contain " staggering " amounts of benzoylecgonine, which is excreted by cocaine users in urine.

Barry himself was touched by a number of “ mini-scandals ,” including travels whose finances he often kept secret, and the first reports of his cocaine use at downtown nightclubs.

Duarte told detectives that she kept cocaine in the bathroom at her home and gave two Wootton High School students cocaine while still employed by Montgomery County Public Schools.