Very strong link between Parkinson's Disease and Cocaine use

I often wondered why so many Hollywood types and media people seemed to get Parkinson's. I can think of so many actors and media related people who have it or who have had it. That is not normal.

I put two and two together and researched coc aine use linked to Parkinson's. Well, it is a real and possibly quite common long term health implication for users:



I can't get the link to work for the first quote. They obviously don't like being linked to, but it can be found in a Google search.

science.org/content/article/could-coc aine-cause-parkinsons-disease

Cocaine causes the signaling molecule dopamine to build up in the brain, resulting in continual stimulation of dopamine-sensing neurons. This dopamine overload can damage the cells that respond to the molecule--some of the same cells that wither in people with Parkinson's disease.

bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com...

Parkinsonism. Former single case reports described Parkinsonism in chronic coc aine users, but an epidemiological study did not confirm an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. Here we report a patient, who developed Parkinsonism in young age after chronic coc aine use, in whom a homozygous LRRK2 risk variant was also detected.

It is my belief that because the users of coc aine are so Amazon harming and self harming too, not to mention the crap decision making they make for
the corporations they are often more of a liability to than an asset, nature does back to them as they do to it.

There are going to be so many ill Westerners soon. It will be like a plague of sores and very justly apportioned to the ones who deserve it because of their unconscious destructive behaviour. The wages of sin is DEATH...with a little patience.



I know of another animal who likes snorting too! Sorry, but it needs to be said.

I'm not proud of using it off and on in the past. Only useful for my ADHD, but not my health or bank account.
I shut that valve off years ago. I know people younger than me who use it and they look like Hell.

I am so fk'd.

allthatsinteresting.com...

That's some pretty scary stuff there. With coc aine use being popular throughout a long period of time, I wonder if there will be an epidemic of people getting Parkinsons. I haven't researched statistics on that yet, but I may do that.

I have a cousin who has Parkinsons. My uncle who died recently, turns out he had Parkinsons. Nobody including him knew that. Neither did coc aine. I think increasing cases of Parkinsons will turn out to be genetic, running in families.

a reply to: ChiefD
It is also being proven to be linked to pesticides and chemicals. My mom has it. She grew up in a town here in MI, that actually has a facebook page, with people her age and older, that have cancers, and all kinds of serious illness. The rates from this town are scary. This chemical plant was actually paying farmers, to dump their waste on their fields!!!!! Said it was harmless!

And big surprise (to no one) is that when this big plant closed there in the 70s, the EPA gave them a free pass. Did not have to clean the land up.

Pretty sure, at one time, the Pine river, that runs through this town, was the most polluted in MI.
So, there are plenty of other causes for this horrible disease as well.

But, look how popular Co caine was in the 80's! Could be a lot of people in trouble.

A friend of mine was in a study at Yale New Haven Hospital and 12 out of the 14 people who had Parkinson's were also around larger than normal amounts of pesticides, especially Round Up.

I remember him telling me how he regretted not taking more precautions during all applications of Round Up.

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
A friend of mine was in a study at Yale New Haven Hospital and 12 out of the 14 people who had Parkinson's were also around larger than normal amounts of pesticides, especially Round Up.

I remember him telling me how he regretted not taking more precautions during all applications of Round Up.

Yup, my dad was around agent orange and got it

a reply to: Tarantula777

Reminds me of the stories of Michael j fox being up for days on end during the filming of back to the future,, because he was also filming family ties tv show.. wonder if that's how he did it.

Of the dozen or so people I knew who had parkinson disease, none ever touched coc aine. I really did not know many people that used coc aine though, because it was a rich mans drug, too expensive for most people to use back in the old days, fifteen bucks a high was really outrageous...that was back when you could get a lid of homegrown for ten bucks and the best quality columbian was around twenty five bucks a lid.

So, I suppose the rate of parkinson disease could be way higher in that group of users, and I would never have seen the correlation.

a reply to: Tarantula777

Hmm, does that include crack coc aine? (Looking at you, Hunter!)

Have you seen how they turn coca leaves into pure coke?

No joke... literally with cement and petrol.



Suffer in yer jocks!!

If true - and whilst I'm not dismissing the idea I'm not convinced - then all I can say is that there is going to be an absolute avalanche of people being diagnosed with Parkinson's here in the UK.

Coke use is absolutely EVERYWHERE throughout every single section and strata of society from the privileged elites to the glamour models and celebrity morons. Its in the leafy suburbs and the quaint English villages, the Scottish tenements and urban council estates.
Traces of its use can be found in every single pub and club throughout the length and breadth of the UK and on almost every single note in circulation.
You can find the once-a-week/month users partaking after their quaint dinner parties, the hardcore sessioners, the users who just like to keep their balance and equilibrium and the out-of-their brain sniffheads who are permanently wired.

You can see people with their keys, coins, straws everywhere with the discreet touching/stroking of the nose etc - the tell tale signs are there for everyone to see in almost every social setting and gathering.

The types of users and the situations surrounding their use covers every possible scenario imaginable.
In some circles its use is far more socially acceptable than having a cigarette.

A Parkinson's epidemic?