Saturday October 3, 1998 - Question 8

Which of the following statements about cocaine is correct?

A. Crack eye includes pain, photophobia, lacrimation, chemosis, and hyperemia in association with corneal epithelial defects.

B. Exposure to large amounts of cocaine is necessary to cause small and large bowel perforation, ischemia and necrosis.

C. Smoking of crack cocaine cannot cause gastrointestinal perforation.

D. The cocaine abstinence syndrome lasts for approximately two weeks.

E. Following the early phases of the cocaine abstinence syndrome, drug craving does not occur.
 
 

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