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Aims To raise awareness among the professional clinical and research community of the
risk of cocaine misuse among elderly patients. Methods Case report of a male patient, aged …

Methods A literature review was done on Google Scholar and PubMed using the following
MESH terms: cocaine use and elderly, cocaine use and older adults, cocaine screening …

Objective: To raise awareness about the growing trend of cocaine abuse in later years as an
underdiagnosed, undertreated, and comorbid condition in older individuals. Three cases of …

This article presents literature-based evidence of the increasing incidence of cocaine abuse
among elderly individuals. It also briefly examines the results of urine drug screenings …

In recent reviews of the literature describing substance abuse in the elderly (Fingerhood,
1991; Miller et al., 1991), there is extensive coverage of excessive alcohol, benzodiazepine …

Introduction: Substance use disorder (SUD) is frequently recognized in the literature as an
epidemic in the United States, but less attention has been paid to the scale of the epidemic …

While rapidly spreading “crack” addiction is a major concern in our community, current
research in this area is focused mainly on adolescents and young adults. We discuss a case …

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of cocaine use in a population of elder patients
presenting to an inner‐city academic emergency department (ED). Methods: This was a …

The amount of positive cocaine results in an urban emergency department are staggering.
The ages of use are becoming more common in older age groups. Most of these patients …