Although the media focus on the rise of cocaine use and the evils of its abuse, the public receives little real information about the scope of the problem and its treatment. This timely, practical, and honest volume gets to the heart of the cocaine addiction problem. Cocaine Solutions not only addresses the difficulties experienced by addicts and their families in coping with the devastating financial, emotional, and psychological toll that addiction takes, it also identifies specific sources of help that exist for addicts and their families.

Both recovered drug addicts themselves, the authors discuss some of the obstacles to recovery and the ways to overcome them. Cocaine Solutions includes the stories of recovering addicts to illustrate firsthand what addicts’lives are like, giving you a better understanding of the people who are afflicted with the disease of addiction. This important book is required reading for a wide audience--cocaine addicts, potential addicts, the families of addicted or potentially addicted persons, professionals who see addiction daily in their patients, and anyone who is interested in the problem of cocaine addiction.

Author: Bruce Carruth, Jennifer Rice Licare, Katharine Delaney Mcloughlin
Hardcover: 156 pages
Company: Routledge (1990-10-30)
ISBN: 1560240350
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"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
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Time For An Intervention!
By learning how to help!

Dear Reader,

Do you have a friend or family member who you suspect is doing drugs? How would you like to learn how to detect it for certain? Do you know about all the drugs that are available to your kids off the street?

Are you worried about the headlines that shout out another drug related crime committed by supposedly “good kids?” If you answered 'Yes!' then read on.

3 Reasons Why You Should Learn About Illegal Drugs


This is no joke. With all the stresses placed on you and your family each day, it only makes sense to educate yourself and learn valuable information to keep them healthy and happy.

1.Kids that manifest aggressive behaviors even during the earlier years of their youth are more at risk of experimenting with addictive substances.
2.Substance abuse often happens as a result of various factors such as low academic performance and lack of self-esteem.
3.Children whose parents abuse drugs themselves (yes, even cigarettes) are at a high risk of abusing drugs and other harmful substances, as well as association with other teens into drug addiction

If you watch the news, read a newspaper or get your news online, you are aware of just how bad the drug situation is today. It’s nothing like when you were young and your parents only had to look out for alcohol, marijuana or the rare occasion of lsd.

The times have changed and you must adapt with them or you run the risk of losing your children or other loved ones to the horrible underbelly of drug addiction.

Some of you may be old enough to remember the worse case scenario for a high school kid was getting smoking cigarettes behind the bleachers at a football game.

Sadly times have changed and not for the better.

This means YOU must keep up. Unless you are a physician or a pharmacist you are probably not aware of what is available to your friends and loved ones out there on the streets; or in the work place or on the playground.

Well that can stop right now, today.

We have just the information you need in our handbook entitled “Dealing With Drug Addiction.”


And The Great Thing Is . . .
You don’t need a medical interpreter. It deciphers those weird long names for you.
It doesn’t require much time to get to know your subject – You can start preparing as soon as you’ve read the guide.
Cost is minimal – Once you’ve discovered what you need to get started you’ll find it’s not as expensive as you might think.
Again, it doesn’t take a lot of expertise – Read the guide and you’ll have all the knowledge you need to get started observing your loved one.

We let you in on all of the terminology, drug names and more inside “Dealing With Drug Addiction.”

Please note that the content in this book is not unique. The same content is available from multiple publishers.

Author: Gary Parsons
Kindle Edition: 32 pages Kindle eBook
Company: BBB Publishing (2010-10-11) (2010-10-11)
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From acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel, author of When Germs Travel, the astonishing account of the years-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud, young, ambitious neurologist, and William Halsted, the equally young, pathfinding surgeon. Markel writes of the physical and emotional damage caused by the then-heralded wonder drug, and how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it—or because of it. One became the father of psychoanalysis; the other, of modern surgery.
 
Both men were practicing medicine at the same time in the 1880s: Freud at the Vienna General Hospital, Halsted at New York’s Bellevue Hospital. Markel writes that Freud began to experiment with cocaine as a way of studying its therapeutic uses—as an antidote for the overprescribed morphine, which had made addicts of so many, and as a treatment for depression.
 
Halsted, an acclaimed surgeon even then, was curious about cocaine’s effectiveness as an anesthetic and injected the drug into his arm to prove his theory. Neither Freud nor Halsted, nor their colleagues, had any idea of the drug’s potential to dominate and endanger their lives. Addiction as a bona fide medical diagnosis didn’t even exist in the elite medical circles they inhabited.
 
In An Anatomy of Addiction, Markel writes about the life and work of each man, showing how each came to know about cocaine; how Freud found that the drug cured his indigestion, dulled his aches, and relieved his depression. The author writes that Freud, after a few months of taking the magical drug, published a treatise on it, Über Coca, in which he described his “most gorgeous excitement.” The paper marked a major shift in Freud’s work: he turned from studying the anatomy of the brain to exploring the human psyche.
 
Halsted, one of the most revered of American surgeons, became the head of surgery at the newly built Johns Hopkins Hospital and then professor of surgery, the hospital’s most exalted position, committing himself repeatedly to Butler Hospital, an insane asylum, to withdraw from his out-of control cocaine use.
 
Halsted invented modern surgery as we know it today: devising new ways to safely invade the body in search of cures and pioneering modern surgical techniques that controlled bleeding and promoted healing. He insisted on thorough hand washing, on scrub-downs and whites for doctors and nurses, on sterility in the operating room—even inventing the surgical glove, which he designed and had the Goodyear Rubber Company make for him—accomplishing all of this as he struggled to conquer his unyielding desire for cocaine.
 
An Anatomy of Addiction tells the tragic and heroic story of each man, accidentally struck down in his prime by an insidious malady: tragic because of the time, relationships, and health cocaine forced each to squander; heroic in the intense battle each man waged to overcome his affliction as he conquered his own world with his visionary healing gifts. Here is the full story, long overlooked, told in its rich historical context.

Author: Howard Markel
Hardcover: 352 pages Deckle Edge
Company: Pantheon (2011-07-19) (2011-07-19)
ISBN: 0375423303
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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
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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
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"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)
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A practical guide to understanding and overcoming addiction to cocaine and meth.

Two experienced addiction treatment professionals present a practice-oriented approach to understanding and overcoming addiction to cocaine, with the addition of a treatment protocol for working with clients addicted to methamphetamines. Citing the latest research, Washton and Zweben explain how to approach clients about their drug use, when and how to involve family members, and how to prevent relapse. Specific strategies are brought to life with case examples.

The book includes an overview of cocaine and methamphetamine use in America; an explanation of the effects of stimulant drugs on the brain, body, and behavior; the process by which addiction develops; signs of stimulant abuse and dependence; treatment options; establishing abstinence and stages of recovery; the distinct benefits of individual, group, and family psychotherapy; and twelve-step programs. Appendices include patient handouts and worksheets, a resource list for patients and family members, and a resource list for treatment professionals.

Author: Arnold Washton, Joan Ellen Zweben
Hardcover: 288 pages
Company: W. W. Norton & Company (2009-03-30)
ISBN: 0393703029
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Many people think that what the addict needs is willpower, but nothing could be further from the truth: When a person has already lost control over a drug or activity, attempts to control its use almost never work. Because the source of addiction isn't the drug or activity itself but a desire for a mood changer, successful recovery means ultimately changing the way we live, giving up the addictive life-style. Willpower's Not Enough will show you how to change your life-style and to recover from your addiction.

Author: Arnold M. Washton
Paperback: 288 pages
Company: William Morrow Paperbacks (1990-09-26) (1990-09-26)
ISBN: 0060919698
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The following day we arrived at the Warner Bros. lot with
Angel and we heard the wrath. Angel said don't pull another
stunt like that again. I'm quite positive Hawk called him a
Puerto Rican Midget.

We were all at the trailer early Tuesday morning when a
Warner Bros page or (lot guy), rode up on his a bike. He
came into the trailer and he said here you go Angel. He had a
bindle of blow. I could not believe my eyes!


You could actually get blow at Warner Bros, and have it
delivered by a personal assistant. The guy, also had a brand
new unopened cassette tape in his hands. He looked at Angel
and said, “May I”?

It was the brand new Motley Crue release, Girls, Girls,
Girls and he threw it in Angel's 85 pound ghetto blaster then
proceeded to crank it up to 11.

9:30 AM - Tuesday, Warner Bros Lot, Cocaine, Coffee &
Crue. Now that's “Breakfast of the Champions”

Later that day after partaking in some very good lines of
studio-coke, we went back to the set to actually watch Angel
do some work.

Before we went over to the set, we stopped at craft services.
I was looking around for something to eat, when I felt my
drumsticks being lifted out of my back pocket.

It was Tom Hanks. He played a set of triplets on everything
that was round at the food table. He hit the licorice, the
cookies, the soda cans, whatever he could, and then he
stopped and handed them back to me. He played very well
and I told him so.

I said damn Tom, you can actually play! He said sure I can,
you know what happens to frustrated musicians, right?
I said, no, what? He said, they become actors.

We were on the set with Angel for about 3 weeks, then it
was back to the regular gig, flying around to different
Comedy Store's every weekend.

I met a lot of interesting people during the movie shoot.
Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Hanks, Sally Fields to
name a few but the most intriguing person I met at the
Warner Bros Lot, was the guy who rode that bike around
selling coke.

Go figure.

Author: Lance Benedict
Kindle Edition: 98 pages Kindle eBook
Company: BookBaby (2011-08-12) (2011-08-12)
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