On Coca
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"Über Coca" (1884) is a work by Sigmund Freud on the uses of cocaine to treat morphine addiction.
Freud wrote that cocaine causes:
- "...exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which in no way differs from the normal euphoria of the healthy person...You perceive an increase of self-control and possess more vitality and capacity for work....In other words, you are simply normal, and it is soon hard to believe you are under the influence of any drug....Long intensive physical work is performed without any fatigue...This result is enjoyed without any of the unpleasant after-effects that follow exhilaration brought about by alcohol....Absolutely no craving for the further use of cocaine appears after the first, or even after repeated taking of the drug..."
From 1884 onwards, Merck played a vigorous role too in the production and marketing of cocaine. Sigmund Freud was an enthusiastic collaborator in Merck's coca research, though the methodological sophistication of his self-experimentation studies has been challenged.
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