Discusses how cocaine and crack affect the mind and body and presents a brief history of cocaine use.
Presents information on cocaine, its "typical" user, its side effects, and various types of treatment by the doctor who founded the toll-free hotline.
Features patient information on treatments for cocaine addiction, provided online by Health-Center, Inc. Discusses psychotherapy, relapse prevention, and medications.
Gaps and inconsistencies in the picture of the cocaine trade increase the difficulty of making good choices about resource allocation and drug-fighting strategies.
BUG Marvin Gaye! You never heard of Marvin Gaye? MAN No. BUG When you zone out with you whippets, what do you listen to? What does your dad make you shut off? MAN I don't know. Stuff. BUG What kind of stuff. Who's your favorite?
An in-depth look at cocaine use in mid-1980's America. Analyzes trends and patterns of use in Americans and young adults. The effects of abuse: the neurochemistry, phenomenology, and rapid delivery systems are all discussed.
Discusses the bodily, psychological and societal effects of cocaine; cocaine addiction and its symptoms; and why cocaine and crack addicts have a high risk of relapse.
The popular drug of choice in the 1980s and '90s, cocaine is an illegal drug that can prove dangerous--even deadly--for users, especially in its impure form, crack.
Describes the history and use of cocaine, its effects on body and mind, how addiction develops and its treatment.
Cocaine has been on the American scene for more than a century. This book traces cocaine's long history and demystifies its effects, focusing on psychological and biochemical evidence.
Contains all of Freud's "cocaine papers," his letters, notes, dreams, and recollections on the subject, together with the most pertinent writings from the 19th century to the present on Freud and cocaine.