Cocaine is one of the most commonly used (and abused) plant-derived drugs in the world, but we have almost no modern information on how plants produce this complex alkaloid. Researchers from the Max ...

Identifying other mechanisms These results suggest dopamine synthesis is probably not the main driver of impulsivity or vulnerability to cocaine use.

Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose nation is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter.

This biochemical synthesis of cocaine used tobacco to solve a century-long mystery within medicine and plant research.

The feds are issuing a new warning about a drug cocktail called pink cocaine . The feds say it's a popular party drug they're finding on New York City streets.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that “cocaine is no worse than whisky,” as he suggested the multibillion dollar illicit trade in the drug could be “easily dismantled” if it was ...

Identifying other mechanisms These results suggest dopamine synthesis is probably not the main driver of impulsivity or vulnerability to cocaine use.

A crucial step has been found in the process coca plants use to build cocaine, possibly paving the way to new, nonaddictive pain drugs.

Taken together, these results suggest that mGluR1 antagonism inhibits de novo protein synthesis; this effect may block the formation of cocaine–cue associations and thus provide a mechanism for ...

Cocaine is one of the most commonly used (and abused) plant-derived drugs in the world, but we have almost no modern information on how plants produce this complex alkaloid. Researchers have just ...

THP seems to inhibit cocaine- or cue-dependent increases in dopamine synthesis in the VTA via negative feedback inhibition of phosphorylated tyrosine hydroxylase.

Cocaine disguised as charcoal with a potential street value of up to 35 million euros ($41.4 million) has been seized in a joint operation between Irish and Dutch authorities.