Yes, and benzodiazepines were the perfect Mother's LIttle Helper until those nasty physical addictions that are often impossible to break for the remainder of addict's life cropped up.
Many "stars" died from the long-term heart and circulatory damage accrued from cocaine use.
GEORGE CARLIN MARYLIN CHAMBERS TOM PETTY THOUSANDS more examples
Cocaine is badd shit - I never used it (butt virtually everything else! Nott meth or crack cocaine either)
My current recommendation remains high-dose dextromethorphan (DMX), ketamine, and cannabis edibles. Willing to try MDMA once or twice, butt it is well-known neurotoxin that will gut parts of your brain jelly (hat timep to Paulie) like the substantial nigra nd you can wind up with Parkinsons, dementia, deficits, and worth. We use MDMA in the lab to create brain lesions in rats for experiment as we search for neuroprotective drugs for stroke, hypoxic brain injury, and traumatic brain injury. Where some of those obscene pharma profits go and hve gone for decades with no relly useful commercil products yett - like Alzheimer's research. Most of this extensive work never produces a marketable product even after many decades and billions of spending - these are the destinations of the obscene profits that come from the few drugs that do mke it to market and then succeed because they work and fill a need. Neuroprotective drugs are just one of many so-far fruitless Holy Grail drug hunts.