Did Freud self-administer cocaine orally (chewing or sucking coca leaf) or by injection or intranasal aplication? The effects he describes would suggest he was not chewing the leaf.

-- Rob Hoff (robhoff@mercyhurst.edu), March 26, 2001

Answers

He self-administer cocaine orally.

-- Jillian Balicki (jbalicki@nmu.edu), March 27, 2001.

He self injected the cocaine, about three times a day, initially as part of a research and later as an addiction.

-- diogo (didiogo69@hotmail.com), November 12, 2001.

Freud had skin cancer on his face and would smear cocaine over the sores to numb his pain.

-- leslie shafer (laylay76@hotmail.com), February 19, 2002.