Remembering this feeling can be enough to make recovering users want to revisit it. Emerging in the mid-eighties, crack was a marketing coup upscale cocaine became available in potent and affordable form to the masses. More specifically, to the poor inner-city masses. Cocaine research followed the craze with a bit of a time lag. After peaking in 1993 at 324 articles, output is now between 210 and 265 articles yearly.
Medical research seems to be in two main areas.
The second area is the search for a pharmacotherapy for cocaine an equivalent of methadone. In fact, several leaders in this search are the same people who developed methadone treatment. For example, the success of a nicotine patch for cigarette smokers who smoke two packs a day will differ greatly from its success for those who smoke two cigarettes a day. These questions would clearly define the target group for a particular drug and would allow comparison of studies. A promising treatment method using vouchers for reinforcing treatment goals continues to be explored.