• Rolando@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using “spent” leaves – the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with trace levels of cocaine.[77] Since then (by 1929[78]), Coca-Cola has used a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Today, that extract is prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia.[79] Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it then sells to Mallinckrodt, the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.[80]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_leaf

      So it still has coca extract, just not the cocaine part.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          I would be happy to have an Adderall prescription. I’m afraid to ask for one though. I don’t want to get secretly listed as drug-seeking since that’ll cause problems if I ever need pain medication, which is likely considering the lifestyle I lead (lots of injuries).

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            7 months ago

            Don’t worry, they assume it anyway so you might as well ask.

            I went to the ER with no recent history of being on pain meds and was treated like I was seeking drugs when I told them the Tylenol wasn’t doing anything for the pain. Had to convince them to give me a catheter so they could get a urine sample to see if it was kidney stones before they gave me anything that worked. “Juat pee for us” they said to the guy who told them I came to the ER because I couldn’t pee and was in incredible pain.

            Fuck the fear mongering about drug seeking behavior. Why do ERs care if somebody wants to feed their addiction more than whether someone is in actual pain?