Beware of Crack

Published May 4, 2013

Beware of Crack
Crack is, in effect, baked cocaine (this is called freebasing). It is named for the sound it makes … Smoking allows the cocaine to reach the brain very quickly and brings an intense and immediately pleasurable 'high'. That 'high' becomes more … Read more on Namibian

Donating your brain to science helps unlock keys to Alzheimer's
Protein tangles and a large number of plaques in the brain are indicative of Alzheimer's. Mash, the UM director, has also done a study on the effects of drug abuse on the brain. The National Institute of Health-funded study on cocaine looked at how … Read more on MiamiHerald.com

Investigators: Starting over
"I couldn't believe that I had given birth to my first child high on cocaine," Fitzgerald admitted. "I mean, I was using that day." Snorting the drug destroyed the cartilage in her nose and even burned a hole in her brain. Dave Carlson was there when … Read more on FOX 9 News