cocainomania
See also: cocainomanía
English edit
Etymology edit
From cocaine + -o- + -mania.
Noun edit
cocainomania (uncountable)
- Cocaine addiction.
- 1888, Henry M. Lyman, “Inebriety, Morphinism and Kindred Diseases”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World, volume III, Philadelphia, Pa., London: F. A. Davis, page 432:
- Freud, of Vienna, denies the danger of chronic cocainomania, except in cases of previous morphine or alcohol inebriety, or in cases predisposed to the various forms of inebriety.
- 1922 October 5, “France Making Fight on Cocaine”, in Hilo Daily Tribune, volume 26, number 236, Hilo, Haw., page five:
- But, in order that the campaign against cocainomania may be effective, it is desirable that some form of international understanding on the subject should be reached.
- 1929 February 10, “Cocainomania Latest Vice Giving Belgium Prohibition Agents Worry”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 118, number 118, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 4:
- Naturally, some of the drugs are sold in the country and are the reason for the increase of “cocainomania” here.
Synonyms edit
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Translations edit
cocaine addiction — see cocainism
Italian edit
Noun edit
cocainomania f (plural cocainomanie)
- addiction to cocaine