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Amazon.com Books: cocaine abuse
An in-depth, narrative study of the cocaine industry—from the fields of Colombia to the streets of New York—as it has never been told before. Cocaine is big business and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on a losing war against it, yet it's still the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy become so massive? Who keeps it running behind the scenes?In Cocaine Nation, Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New york. he meets Medellin hitmen, U.S. kingpins, Brazilian traffickers, and talks to soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs and cartels. He traces cocaine's progress from legal 'pick-me-up' to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programs in countries such as Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs crusade is actually increasing demand. Cutting through the myths about the white trade, this is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before. Author: Thomas Feiling Hardcover: 356 pages Bargain Price Company: Pegasus (2010-07-20) List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $11.18 Used Price: $10.98 
"The Cocaine Zone" is a real-life cautionary tale that hopes to help you stay away from the addictive drugs of coke and crack cocaine. Yet, it also tells of all the true nitty-gritty surrounding the drug world... and dishes the dirt.It notes that marijuana is typically the gateway drug which leads people into a cocaine or crack habit simply because needing to buy an illegal drug puts you around people who sell other drugs. And those drug dealers are always willing to give out free samples in hopes that you like them. Once you're hooked, you're theirs. They prey upon that fact. That's why a crack addict told the author many times: "One hit's too many, and a million is never enough... no rock too big." It also details and describes the true realities of the underground drug scene in and around Detroit... with all its guts & glory and ins & outs... both good and bad... and it provides tips and tricks to help understand the nature of addiction and how best to recover. If you liked the movies "Scarface" and "Blow," you'll love this eBook: "The Cocaine Zone." Author: Brian Shell Kindle Edition: 109 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2010-11-18) (2010-11-18) List Price: $6.98 Amazon Price: 
Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes and drug gangs of today. Themes explored include:* Amsterdam's complex cocaine culture * the manufacture, sale and control of cocaine in the United States * Japan and the Southeast Asian cocaine industry * export of cocaine prohibitions to Peru * sex, drugs and race in early modern London Cocaine unveils new primary sources and covert social, cultural and political transformations to shed light on cocaine's hidden history. Paperback: 240 pages Company: Routledge (1999-10-07) ISBN: 0415220017 List Price: $40.95 Amazon Price: $35.13 Used Price: $36.46 
The story of cocaine isn’t just about crime and profit; it’s about psychoanalysis, about empire building, about exploitation, emancipation, and, ultimately, about power. To tell the story of the twentieth century without reference to this drug and its contribution is to miss a vital and fascinating strand of social history. Streatfeild examines the story of cocaine from its first medical uses to the worldwide chaos it causes today. His research takes him from the arcane reaches of the British Library to the isolation cells of America’s most secure prisons; from the crackhouses of New York to the jungles of Bolivia and Colombia. Author: Dominic Streatfeild Paperback: 528 pages Company: Picador (2003-07-01) ISBN: 0312422261 List Price: $18.00 Amazon Price: $4.98 Used Price: $0.79 
Robbert Sabbag’sSnowblind, the true story of an American smuggler whose intricate, ingenious scams made him a legendary figure in the cocaine world of the late sixties and early seventies, is a modern classic. In this witty, intelligent, fiercely stylish, drug-induced exemplary tale” (Los Angeles Times), Sabbag masterfully traces Zachary Swan’s Roman-candle career, from his first forays into smuggling marijuana to his jaunts to Colombia to buy pure cocaine, and his ever more elaborate plans to outwit the police and customs officials. Updated by the author and featuring a newly designed cover, this captivating portrait of a dashing antihero and enthralling look at a turbulent age is sure to reach a new generation of readers. Author: Robert Sabbag Paperback: 368 pages Company: Grove Press (2010-06-08) ISBN: 0802144942 List Price: $16.00 Amazon Price: $5.98 Used Price: $5.00 
Doctor Dealer is the story of Larry Lavin, a bright, charismatic young man who rose from his working-class upbringing to win a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, earn Ivy League college and dental degrees, and buy his family a house in one of Philadelphia's most exclusive suburbs. But behind the facade of his success was a dark secret -- at every step of the way he was building the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales. Award-winning journalist Mark Bowden tells the saga of Lavin's rise and fall with the gripping, novelistic narrative style that won him international acclaim as the author of the New York Times best-seller Black Hawk Down. "Immensely readable . . . eye-popping . . . a smoothly crafted, exciting, can't-put-it-down book." -- Louisville New Voice Author: Mark Bowden Paperback: 352 pages Company: Grove Press (2000-11-30) ISBN: 0802137571 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $9.45 Used Price: $4.98 
"A clear and vivid picture of cocaine addiction: the drug, the progression of drug dependence, and most important, the outpatient treatment and recovery process." —Sheila B. Blume, M.D., South Oaks Hospital, Amityville, New York Cocaine is America's fastest growing drug problem, especially since the appearance of crack. This concise, highly practical book is a detailed guide to clinical assessment and treatment of cocaine addiction, with emphasis on outpatient treatment and relapse prevention strategies. In a straightforward, uncomplicated style, the author provides a wealth of practical information that is useful not only to professionals but also to cocaine users themselves, as well as to their families, friends, and employers—all of whom can benefit from an increased understanding of the addiction and its treatment.Author: Arnold Washton Paperback: 256 pages Company: W. W. Norton & Company (1991-01-17) ISBN: 0393307158 List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $2.49 Used Price: $0.01 
With sharp wit, self-deprecating humor, and penetrating honesty, New York Times journalist Dave Itzkoff turns a keen eye on his life with the mysterious, maddening, much-loved man of whom he writes, “for the first eight years of my life I seem to have believed he was the product of my imagination.”Itzkoff’s father was the man who lumbered home at night and spent hours murmuring to his small son about his dreams and hopes for the boy’s future, and the fears and failures of his own past. He was the hard-nosed New York fur merchant with an unexpectedly emotional soul; a purveyor of well-worn anecdotes and bittersweet life lessons; a trusted ally in childhood revolts against motherly discipline and Hebrew school drudgery; a friend, advisor, and confidant. He was also a junkie. In Cocaine’s Son, Itzkoff chronicles his coming of age in the disjointed shadow of his father’s double life—struggling to reconcile his love for the garrulous protector and provider, and his loathing for the pitiful addict. Through his adolescent and teen years Itzkoff is haunted by the spectacle of his father’s drug-fueled depressions and disappearances. In college, Itzkoff plunges into his own seemingly fated bout with substance abuse. And later, an emotional therapy session ends in the intense certainty that he will never overcome the same demons that have driven the older man. But when his father finally gets clean, a long “morning after” begins for them both. And on a road trip across the country and back into memory, in search of clues and revelations, together they discover that there may be more binding them than ever separated them. Unsparing and heartbreaking, mordantly funny and powerfully felt, Cocaine’s Son clears a place for Dave Itzkoff in the forefront of contemporary memoirists. Author: Dave Itzkoff Hardcover: 240 pages ISBN13: 9781400065721, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Company: Villard (2011-01-18) (2011-01-18) ISBN: 1400065720 List Price: $24.00 Amazon Price: $2.99 Used Price: $1.50 This book explores the pharmacology, treatment and relapse prevention techniques relating to cocaine abuse. Topics discussed include incentive sensitisation and loss of top-down control in cocaine addiction; cocaine abuse and dependence in schizophrenia; prenatal cocaine exposure and the associated adverse effects on pregnancy; and, the clinical efficacy of medications with glutamatergic mechanisms of action for the treatment of cocaine addiction.
Hardcover: Company: Nova Science (2012-02-05) ISBN: 1619422026 List Price: $140.00 Amazon Price: $140.00 
This text is about conducting effective psychotherapy with people who are addicted to cocaine. While its emphasis is on the people themselves rather than on the drug or the phenomenon of addiction, the discussion centres around the fact that these people are addicted to cocaine as it threads its way through every aspect of their lives. The meanings and subjective effects of the cocaine experience, including getting high, coming down, searching for the drug, slipping or lapsing back into drug use, all become integrated into the particular personality of each individual user. To understand someone - anyone - it is critical to understand their relationships. With addicts, these relationships include not only other people, but also their drugs which are inevitably personified. This book shows how to use the therapeutic relationship to understand the drug relationship, and in so doing help addicts free themselves to have more satisfying and productive lives.Author: David Mark, Jeffrey Faude Hardcover: 274 pages Company: Jason Aronson, Inc. (1997-10-01) ISBN: 0765700727 List Price: $61.00 Amazon Price: $19.55 Used Price: $5.00 |
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| See also: Cocaine Abuse, Cocaine Addiction, Cocaine Dependence, Cocaine Intoxication, Cocaine Withdrawal |