Addiction to cocaine or the medical condition resulting from chronic cocaine use; cocaine dependency.
From 'cocaine' plus the suffix '-ism' (indicating a disease, condition, or practice). The '-ism' suffix was borrowed from French, which got it from Greek '-ismos.'
The term 'cocainism' appeared in medical literature by the 1880s, just two decades after cocaine was isolated—doctors quickly recognized it as a serious addiction problem, making it one of the first scientifically-documented drug epidemics!
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