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People who begin using cocaine during adolescence exhibit more significant cognitive deficits than people who begin using the drug in adulthood. Long suspected by experts in neuroscience, the hypothesis received objective confirmation by researchers working at the University of São Paulo’s Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil.
When scientists compared the two groups of cocaine users, they observed pronounced differences, mainly in specific neuropsychological functions such as sustained attention (required for performing long tasks, such as completing a questionnaire), working memory (used in specific actions, for example, a waiter remembering the order of each person at a table) and declarative memory (storing and retrieving data after a period of time).
They also found that among early-onset users, the concurrent consumption of cannabis and alcohol was 50 percent and 30 percent…
