Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The habitual or excessive use of cocaine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of cocaine; the morbid habit of using cocaine as a stimulant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A morbid condition produced by the habitual and excessive use of cocaine.
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Examples
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The user of coca wines runs a double risk -- an alcohol craving may be revived, or created; and, at the same time, cocainism may be set up, and nothing but physical, mental and moral ruin follow.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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The situation of alcoholism repeats itself in still more ruinous forms with morphinism and cocainism, vices which grow in this country to an alarming degree.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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Quite similar is the situation with cocainism or with the combination of morphine and cocaine which is so frequent nowadays with young physicians.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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"The cocaine habit may be cultivated as easily as the alcohol habit, and the two forms of disease, alcoholism and cocainism, are by no means rare.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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"To combine such a drug as coca, or cocaine, with an alcoholic stimulant, is to multiply the dangers of cocainism by those of alcoholism.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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