Category Archives: Drugs

Sigmund Freud and Cocaine

“Most people know Sigmund Freud as the founder of psychoanalysis, as well as originating the idea of the role of the unconscious in conscious thought, and of course for “sometimes a cigar, is just a cigar.” But were you also aware that Freud was one of the pioneers of research into the properties of cocaine?”

It is the leaves of the coca plant that contain the stimulant cocaine…Read on

It is also true that Coca-Cola once contained a small amount of cocaine.