Washington, May 23 (ANI): Research shows that high-fructose corn syrup can cause behavioural reactions in rats similar to those produced by drugs of abuse such as cocaine.

Washington, May 23 (ANI): Researchers at Johns Hopkins have unraveled the molecular foundations of cocaine's effects on the brain, and identified a compound that blocks cravings for the drug in cocaine-addicted mice.

Washington, May 18 (ANI): Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has declined association with video-related clips that show him smoking cocaine.

New York, May 14 (ANI): A brewer from Bolivia has created a beer that is based on the same leaf, which is used to make cocaine.

Washington, May 11 (ANI): A novel anti-cocaine vaccine developed by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College has been successfully tested in primates, bringing them closer to launching human clinical trials.

Washington, May 6 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has said that she is not an alcoholic, has only done cocaine four times and doesn't need in-patient rehab.

London, May 5 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has admitted that she has taken cocaine only "four or five times" in her life.

London, Apr.28 (ANI): Cocaine smugglers in Britain have reportedly joined hands with the terror group Al Qaeda to spread cocaine usage in UK and Western Europe worth 168 million pound.

Washington, April 23 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan snorted cocaine off her wrist in a bathroom during a paid appearance at a nightclub in Miami on New Year's Eve 2009, according to a new tell-all memoir by controversial gossip blogger Nik Richie.

Sydney, Apr.20 (ANI): A Sports biochemist has reportedly been threatened by an organized crime network to spike the supplements of Australian Football League (AFL) players with cocaine so that they deliver positive tests for the purpose of blackmailing the players.

London, April 17 (ANI): Joan Collins said she has never used drugs despite Hollywood stars handing them out at parties.

London, Apr 14 (ANI): EastEnders star Danniella Westbrook was kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by a gang of drug dealers after failing to pay a 5,000-pound cocaine debt, according to reports.

Washington, Apr. 11 (ANI): Mike Tyson has said becoming a vegan has given him another opportunity to live a healthy life.

London, Apr. 5 (ANI): Players regularly enjoy cocaine-fuelled sex romps with high-class prostitutes and sniff Class A drugs off women's bodies, a new tell all book has revealed.

New York, Apr 5 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan hotelier friend Vikram Chatwal was arrested at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on eight drug counts on Tuesday.

Washington, Apr 4 (ANI): A new study in rats has found that stimulating a key part of the brain reduces compulsive cocaine-seeking, suggesting the possibility of changing addictive behavior generally.

London, April 4 (ANI): Stimulating one part of the brain with laser light can wipe away addictive behavior in rats - or conversely turn non-addicted rats into compulsive cocaine seekers, a new study has shown.

Washington, March 16 (ANI): Cocaine addiction treatment could get easier, with the new discovery of a molecular process in the brain that's triggered by drug use.

London, Fen 27 (ANI): Tom Maynard, who was electrocuted after being hit by a Tube train after being high on cocaine cocktail in south west London last year, lost his life because he made wrong choices the night before that, according to the former cricketer's devastated family.

London, Feb 27 (ANI): English county cricketers will be tested more frequently for recreational drugs in response to the confirmation that Tom Maynard had been taking cocaine and ecstasy the night before he died last June.

Melbourne, Feb 22 (ANI): Steven Tyler has admitted that he has shovelled at least 5 to 6 million dollars worth of cocaine up his nose.

Washington, January 24 (ANI): Nearly one year after Whitney Houston's shocking death, her mom Cissy Houston has written candidly about her daughter's severe drug problems and the downward spiral that led to her death by drowning in a hotel bathtub with traces of cocaine still in her system in a revealing new memoir, 'Remembering Whitney'.

London, Jan. 23 (ANI): A British woman has been sentenced to death after she was found smuggling cocaine worth 1.6 million pounds in her baggage at the resort island of Bali in Indonesia.

London, December 17 (ANI): A new study found that sons of male rats exposed to cocaine are resistant to the rewarding effects of the drug, suggesting that cocaine-induced changes in physiology are passed down from father to son.

Washington, Dec. 13 (ANI): A woman has been arrested in Barcelona, Spain, for allegedly smuggling cocaine inside her breasts.