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Insomnia
Stephen Magrath
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Caffeine crystals
Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy
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Insomnia
Stephen Magrath
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Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
Dr Henry Oakeley
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Wired, artwork of the brain
Sarah Grice