cocainomania en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English cocaine Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English -mania English cocainomania From cocaine + -o- + -mania.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Cocaine addiction.
Naturally, some of the drugs are sold in the country and are the reason for the increase of “cocainomania” here.
1929 February 10, “Cocainomania Latest Vice Giving Belgium Prohibition Agents Worry”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 118, number 118, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 4:But, in order that the campaign against cocainomania may be effective, it is desirable that some form of international understanding on the subject should be reached.
1922 October 5, “France Making Fight on Cocaine”, in Hilo Daily Tribune, volume 26, number 236, Hilo, Haw., page five:Freud, of Vienna, denies the danger of chronic cocainomania, except in cases of previous morphine or alcohol inebriety, or in cases predisposed to the various forms of inebriety.
1888, Henry M. Lyman, “Inebriety, Morphinism and Kindred Diseases”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World, volume III, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: F. A. Davis, page 432: