The Latin Times spoke to drug and security experts in Colombia to find out what lies behind the country's cocaine boom and ...

Chemicals known as pseudocholinesterase (PChE) and carboxylesterase type 2 break down cocaine into ecgonine methyl ester, which is an inactive metabolite of the drug. Next, enzymes break cocaine ...

A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...

Brain contains cocaine-like chemical. Emory University Health Sciences Center. Journal Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Funder ...

Cocaine has a direct impact on the chemicals in the brain that affect how you feel and how you think. As your brain develops a tolerance to cocaine, the chemical changes the drug once produced ...

Pink cocaine found in a partial autopsy of former One Direction singer Liam Payne has been described by experts as "Russian roulette.". The designer drug, detected in the star's system, has the ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Millions of ringgit worth of suspected cocaine and drug-processing chemicals were seized after police arrested a “cook” who had entered the country early this month. Read full story ...

Fentanyl Chemistry 101. Fentanyl is a synthetic drug. That means it’s not created from plants like marijuana or cocaine, but rather entirely from chemicals.

Sharks found with cocaine in their systems. ... Any biologically active chemical can cause stress, which in turn could make the already declining fish more susceptible to disease, Snow says.

The levels of cocaine found in these sharks were reported to be as much as 100 ... “It’s not too big of a stretch to imagine that these chemicals that wind up in the water can affect aquatic ...