cocainomaniac

English

Etymology

From cocaine +‎ -o- +‎ -maniac.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪniæk

Noun

cocainomaniac (plural cocainomaniacs)

1. A cocaine addict.
   • 1889 February 10, “Pharmacurgus”, “Our Paris Letter”, in P. W. Bedford, editor, Pharmaceutical Record. A Semi-Monthly Journal of Pharmacy, Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Allied Sciences., volume IX., number 6, New York, N.Y.: The Pharmaceutical Record Co., published 18 March 1889, page 85:

     Of the three cocainomaniacs, two had epileptiform attacks and one got off with “cramps.”

   • 1892 August 10, Dr. Dujardin-Beaumetz, “The Art of Prescribing”, in B. W. Palmer, editor, The Medical Age. A Semi-Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery., volume X, number 15, Detroit, Mich.: George S. Davis, page 455:

     It may be affirmed that every delirious morphinomaniac is a cocainomaniac.

   • 1976, Robert Sabbag, “Aesthetics and Anaesthetics”, in Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade, Avon, published 1978, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 77:

     While delivering the final blow to the multi-million-dollar patent-medicine industry, the spectre of the black cocainomaniac—just what the doctor ordered— helped secure the image of the doctor as public benefactor, an image tarnished by a miracle “feel-good” drug, the prescription of which put a doctor on par with a cosmetologist or wine-merchant, who catered to whims rather than needs, and it is in keeping with the tradition of modern medical practice that shortly after the eradication of cocaine, the American medical community began touting a new “feel-good” drug—the amphetamines—synthetic, marketable, and well under the medical thumb—and probably the most dangerous piece of chemistry since Alfred Nobel gave us dynamite.

Synonyms

• cocainist
• cokehead

Related terms

• cocainomania