From: JazzMan <BirdLives!@BeBop.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 07:26:45 -0700

> JazzMan wrote:
>
> >Which is why you should be aware of something I never heard
> about, > until many years after I stopped doing coke. That
> something, is > cocaethelyne. >Researchers have found the human
> liver combines cocaine and alcohol > and >manufactures a third
> substance, cocaethylene, that intensifies  cocaine's > >euphoric
> effects (homerun for the JazzMan!), while _possiby_ increasing >
> the risk of sudden death (the big strikeout!!).
>

Phil Stovell wrote:

> Any sources for this? I've never heard of it either.
>

Phil,

I didn't bookmark the exhaustive study I read ( I will post--if I can
turn it up), but a quick search turned up these web pages;

Brief  discussion on coke and alcohol, also interesting mention of meth
and alcohol. References at the bottom of web page.
see: http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~ddrc/about.html#COCETH

Early research with monkeys.
see:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00213/bibs/7130003/71300222.htm

More research with rats.
see: http://gema.library.ucsf.edu:8081/Originals/SAEMabs/SA167.html

National Institute on Drug Abuse web site, Yale University Medical
School research.
see: http://www.nida.nih.gov/DirReports/DirRep595/DirectorReport2.html

Snippet from Journal of  Analytical Toxicology.
see: http://www.jatox.com/ba2jabs.htm

Hope this helps.

JazzMan

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