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Effect of Alcohol Coadministration on the Plasma and Brain Concentrations of Cocaine in Rats

Mohsen A. Hedaya and Wei-Jian Pan
Drug Metabolism and Disposition May 1997, 25 (5) 647-650;
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We investigated the effect of intravenous alcohol coadministration on the pharmacokinetics of cocaine in awake, freely moving rats using the microdialysis technique. Alcohol coadministration resulted in faster rate of cocaine absorption after intraperitoneal administration leading to higher cocaine plasma concentration. The higher plasma cocaine concentration resulted in a proportional increase in the cocaine brain extracellular fluid concentration. However, cocaine brain extracellular fluid/plasma distribution ratio, determined from the ratio of the corresponding cocaine area under the concentration-time curves, was not affected by alcohol coadministration. Cocaethylene was detected only after administration of cocaine + alcohol. The brain extracellular fluid/plasma distribution ratio of cocaethylene was similar to that of cocaine. The higher cocaine concentrations in plasma and brain extracellular fluid, in addition to the formation of the pharmacologically active metabolite cocaethylene are, at least partially, responsible for the increased cocaine effects produced after administration of this drug combination.

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  • Send reprint requests to: Dr. Mohsen A. Hedaya, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Wegner Hall Room 309, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6510.

  • Received May 28, 1996; accepted January 23, 1997.

  • This study was supported in part by funds provided for medical and biological research by the State of Washington Initiative Measure No. 171, and by a grant from the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program at Washington State University.

  • Abbreviations used are::
    alcohol
    ethyl alcohol
    ip
    intraperitoneal
    iv
    intravenous
    AUC
    area under the concentration-time curve
    TBC
    total body clearance
    F
    bioavailability
    Vd
    volume of distribution
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