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Cocaine Abuse

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Cocaine dependence continues to be a significant public health problem in the United States, with about 1.6 million current cocaine users and over 600,000 new cocaine users in the past year. Of this number, about 1.1 million are said to be dependent on or have abused cocaine in the past year (Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings, 2013). It is estimated that 25 million people in the United States have used cocaine at least once (Henry’s clinical diagnosis and management by laboratory methods, 22nd edn, Saunders, Philadelphia, 2011). Cocaine abuse remains one of the leading causes of drug-related emergency department visits and hospital admissions.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA

    Emily Kahn M.D. & Hosni Mikhael M.D.

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    Nalini Vadivelu M.D.

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  1. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Louisiana State University Interim Hospital, and Ochsner Kenner Hospital, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Nalini Vadivelu

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Kahn, E., Mikhael, H., Vadivelu, N. (2015). Cocaine Abuse. In: Kaye, A., Vadivelu, N., Urman, R. (eds) Substance Abuse. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1951-2_12

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